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Spain Picasso was born in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, 57 years ago last October 25, of a Basque drawing teacher named Blasco Ruiz and an Italian mother Maria Picasso. By the Spanish order of patronymics his name was Pablo Picasso y Ruiz, and he so signed his earliest pictures...
...laga, Picasso's characteristic recollection is a singing motorman whose streetcar's speed depended, not on the company's timetable, but on the rhythm of the song he steered by-gay or melancholy, galloping or slow. The mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...
...case, these new paintings by the little Spaniard from Málaga were extraordinary affairs. The sombre, elongated El Grecos which Picasso had studied in Madrid certainly influenced his manner; so did the predominantly blue compositions of Cezanne. But, unlike Cezanne and still more unlike the Impressionists, Picasso was uninterested in Nature, painted to make paintings, painted to express himself...
...Loyalists, but saw no inconsistency in boasting (Loyalist communiques substantiated the boast) that four Italian divisions (about 40,000 men) were heroically conquering Catalonia. These divisions included famed Black Shirt detachments. Italian correspondents wrote from Spain that among the Italian soldiers were veterans of the offensives of Málaga, Bilbao, Santander, Aragon...
...performed by Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish allies. Today Franco likes to keep Italians out of the headlines as much as possible and Mussolini is willing...