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Beyond these gadgets mankind swarms into what seems to be a decorated subway. There spectators gaze at large canvases by England's Leonora Carrington, Spain's Miro, Chile's Matta, all their works unframed, suspended in the air from wooden arms protruding from concave plywood walls. Every two minutes, while onlookers enjoy the spectacle, a roar as of an approaching train is heard, lights go out on one side of the gallery, pop on at the other...
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...
...leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally lines and colored in flat patches, were made up of recognizable...
...year-old Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston (for journalistic achievements promoting public understanding in the Americas), the prizes were presented in Columbia University's Low Memorial Library by President Nicholas Murray Butler. To La Prensa and El Comercio went twin bronze plaques; to Sr. Gollan and Dr. Miro Quesada gold medals...
...Comercio earned its plaque last spring when it celebrated its 100th anniversary with a 216-page issue summing up the history of Peru. A typical South American journalist is grey-haired, diminutive Dr. Miro Quesada, formerly Peru's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister to Switzerland. A successful publisher, he has served also as dean of philosophy and letters at Lima's University of San Marcos, oldest (founded 1551) in America...