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...most of them have hotfooted it across the border to France almost as soon as they were old enough to carry their own easels. The artists who stayed behind seemingly found it difficult to forget Spain's great artistic past, and followed, without distinction, the traditions of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya...
...Halles [Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy Leonardo, El Greco and Delacroix, but Goya was too difficult for me on account of his half-tones. After one year in the Louvre I decided to stay in my room and do my copying from reproductions. Father never knew the difference...
...married a wealthy widow from Argentina, founded a topflight cultural magazine, La España Moderna. Lazaro's collection included such old masters as Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco and Goya, plus masses of coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...
...notion is not so weird as might appear at first thought; El Greco, for one, carried it out successfully. So far, Hancock has failed to do so. His paintings are uneasy compromises that require sympathy in order to give pleasure. But for himself and for what he is 'trying to do-which includes seeing the world-the lanky, shaggy-haired artist has been finding sympathy all across the continent...
...whole new directorate-know that they had traveled a long way toward that goal. The first-nighters saw & heard a Don Carlo that glowed with the high sheen of months of work and polish. Stunningly if starkly scened in grey and glowingly costumed in El Greco reds, it was beautifully sung, cleanly staged and intelligently acted...