Word: grecos
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...sadness of Spain and the monotony of the Spanish coloring is admirably reflected in the work of Tàpies, Millares, Saura, Rivera, Chillida, as it was in the work of their forefathers Goya, El Greco, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, and still is in some of the best work of Picasso...
...degenerate and banned his works. But Spain's artistic roots go deep. Last week in two major exhibits in Manhattan-one at the Museum of Modern Art, the other at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-U.S. gallerygoers could see that the heirs of Goya and El Greco had plunged headlong into their own brand of abstract expressionism...
...still unpublished book of memoirs. Report to El Greco, Greece's late great man of letters, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: "All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind." Readers of this strange little book of aphorisms, which Kazantzakis finished in 1923 before he wrote such works as Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel, will sense the greatness of the writer...
...characters are arranged in two crudely congruent triangles. In the first, a back-street belle (Greco) shares her bed and board with a dirty old man (Welles) because he supports her illegitimate children. But now and then she likes a little excitement (Dillman) on the side. When the old man gets jealous, the young lovers strangle him, meat-saw the remains into portable pieces, and are caught when they try to dump the evidence at a construction site...
...this point the first triangle intersects the second, which is composed of a greying eminence (Welles) of the trial courts, his svelte young mistress (Greco), and her secret preference (Dillman), who happens to be the old man's legal assistant. The assistant is of course assigned to defend the meat-saw murderess, and after running around in triangles for an hour or so, the script comes at last to the predictable courtroom climax in which an awful lot of poetic justice is noisily done...