Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slant that when he joined the Free French in 1940, a right-wing Gaullist received him with the sour greeting: "Bonjour, Commissar." Like most other French leftists, Soustelle supported Socialist Leon Blum's prewar Popular Front with the Communists. In Mexico one of his great friends was Communist Painter Diego Rivera, who was at that time, Soustelle recalls, "in an anti-Stalinist phase and carried a large pistol...
Ignacio Zuloaga, the greatest Spanish painter of the recent past (one of whose El Grecos has recently gone to the Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...
...case, what was and remains important between the painter and the lady has never been obscure or obscured; she was his friend and patroness. In that sense, there was, indeed, love between them. How juvenile to believe that the existence of love is proved by the incidence...
Chicago's Findlay Galleries played host last week to the warm, simple and true pictures of the world's most distinguished woman painter, Dame Laura Knight. To a few, the pictures' heartfelt realism had that musty look of the faraway and long ago; visitors were hard put to assess them by contemporary-and so often geometric -standards. One critic noted that Dame Laura painted like a man. Said she in London when she heard of it, "What man?" Another called her a "popular painter," which roused her British ire the more: "Don't call me popular...
Growing old and a trifle gnarled, the grand dame of British art still paints every day in her London "workshop." "It's not grand enough to call a studio," she insists, adding, rightly, that she is "not a great painter." But, she says, "it's not for lack of darned hard work. I never had more money than I needed. I am thankful to have known the facts and struggles of a common life." Humility shines through Dame Laura's art-and so does humanity...