Word: gris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Combining a fine collection of both men's work with equally excellent representatives of two other notable Spanish moderns, Joan Miro and Juan Gris, the present exhibition at Boston's Institute of Modern Art is not only this season's most colorful and significant showing but also one which will attract many who are not regular gallery-goers...
...showing will come to see the Dalis and emerge praising Picasso or Miro, for despite the nineteen examples of his work displayed, the eccentric Catalonian comes out low man. Contrasted with the incomparable originality and vigor of Picasso, the earthy, humorous gaiety of Miro, and the quiet perfection of Gris, Dali's fantastic, delicately-detailed creations seem forced, superficial, and at times rather cheap...
...that was not the day. The firing had started when British watchers discovered a convoy of German ships trying to ghost northward through the English Channel, hugging the coast at Cape Gris-Nez. Two hundred shells were fired. One large enemy merchant vessel was sunk, another was hard hit. From this German willingness to risk ships in the Channel shooting gallery, Allied commanders judged that the steady air pounding of French railroads and communications must be snarling normal overland supply lines behind the Invasion Coast...
...Anybody who sits on Cape Gris Nez is seven minutes by air and an hour and a half by sea from England, and there are a lot of Germans still sitting around Cape Gris Nez. . . . We must keep enough here to make sure that the enemy cannot destroy or seriously damage what is, after all, the powerhouse of world resistance to the German bid for world domination...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...