Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immigrant Lithuanian rabbi, breaks the Torah's Second Commandment with exquisite verve He not only graves golden images, but even takes them from the Bible Their pinched faces and twisted bodies are distorted with the febrile passion of Aronson's acknowledged artistic influence, El Greco...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Roots of Heaven, the story of a one-man crusade to save Africa's elephants, with Trevor Howard, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Eddie Albert, Juliette Greco. Color...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
...blasted into lava rock. Besides collecting pesos, he acquires Dresden figurines, Chinese jade, Venetian glass and ancient Spanish books that he often pores over until 2 a.m. His house also shelters Mexico's most distinguished selection of wines (7,000 bottles) and its finest private art collection-El Greco, Botticelli, Van Dyck, Dali, Diego Rivera-as well as Pagliai's picturesque third wife, international Screen Star Merle Oberon.* When someone once asked why he does not retire to contemplate his gentle Corots and just clip coupons, Pagliai replied that "clipping coupons gives you calluses on the brain...
...Prado gallery, of course, still has the most. In the U.S., where collectors equipped with bulging pocketbooks and ranging tastes assiduously bought up Spanish masterpieces in recent generations, there are a number of good private and public collections to draw from. It is from these that the show "El Greco to Goya," which opened last week at Indianapolis' John Herron Museum of Art, was borrowed-the biggest and best gathering of classic Spanish work in this country...