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Overlooking the plains to the south, where Don Quixote tilted at windmills, the first Museum of Spanish Abstract Art (see opposite page) opened this month in the citadel city of Cuenca. Three years of restoration went into the 20-room museum housed in 15th century buildings which crane over a gorge that drops some 600 feet. The prime mover is a wealthy Philippine-born painter named Fernando Zóbel, 42, who has taken from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business...
Certainly Eduardo Chillida restrains the knotty nature of his wooden sculpture (see over page), and Antonio Saura's Brigitte Bardot is unsentimental. Says Saura, 36: "When I throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster." There is violence, a seething impasto in whorls of dark color, the suggestion of hot, bubbling blood. Like the peeling, crumbling walls of the Cuenca museum itself, Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey...
...title is a vast understatement. Bowman is also the paper's only staff reporter and photographer; he writes a signed column as well as the editorials, even helps distribute the twelve-page publication by car. He works twelve to 15 hours a day, seven days a week, has stopped playing bridge on Saturday nights because "now I wouldn't dream of killing that much time." His family pitches in with wrapping and labeling, and Daughter Elizabeth, 10, has been enlisted to review local children's plays under her own byline...
...sense a stony prude or a bloodless geometrist. He reveled in depicting bacchanalia where swarthy satyrs lurched after alabaster-skinned nymphs, and chubby putti chugged wine as if it were rosy Pablum -all composed as carefully as a ballet. In his Rape of the Sabine Women (see opposite page), swords and outflung arms set up triangles that play a counterpoint against the squarish architecture. Nothing is left to chance, not even the suggestive but studied pas de deux of the Sabine maidens and their Roman abductors...
...jumped the release date would be banned from the wedding: "A large guillotine will be erected on the South Lawn for minor offenders." First head to roll was that of Women's Wear Daily, which printed a complete sketch of one of the dresses on its front page three days before release date. An irate Liz immediately bumped the publication from the wedding list...