Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tristana. Like their greatest paisano, Picasso, Spanish geniuses have their roots in another century or their homes in another country. Except for that grand exception: Luis Buñuel. The Old Aragonese, 70, has reached a modus vivendi with Franco Spain, and returned to create in Tristana a coda of inexhaustible power and sophistication. Like the world reflected in a convex mirror, every element is in this masterwork -but somehow transfigured and amplified. People are themselves and something other. Even the film's title has a dual meaning: Tristana suggests "sadness," and is the name of its heroine, impeccably...
...friendship of the men whose greatness he recognized. Unfortunately, as he well knew, he was a man who "weeps because the very seals in the zoo aren't crazy about him." Friends tired of his flattery and aggressive bids for attention. Stravinsky called him "an embarrassing young man": Picasso concluded that he was "the tail of my comet...
...while the Civil War in Spain ground grimly on, the great names of Spanish art assembled a show at the International Exposition in Paris to demonstrate their solidarity with the beleaguered republic. Picasso was represented by Guernica, his agonized portrayal of a small town obliterated by German dive bombers. From Miro came The Reaper, a ferocious antiwar mural that has since been lost. Towering above the other works in the Spanish pavilion was a graceful, 41-ft.-high stalk of flowing concrete, by a lanky Castilian sculptor who had been commissioned by the Loyalist government in Madrid to cast...
...sculptor's name was Alberto Sanchez. Although little known to the gallery-going public, he was something of a legend to his fellow artists. "We all called him Alberto," Picasso said later. "And almost no one remembered his last name. Alberto by itself was enough, because there was only one Alberto." Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, recalls visiting Picasso's studio one day to find the two Spaniards deep in conversation. Suddenly Picasso whirled on his mild-mannered friend. "What's your opinion, Alberto? Who's the greatest sculptor of our time?" Sanchez thought...
...serve as a stark backdrop for phantom figures hovering on the landscape. His sculpture frequently shows a more whimsical turn, with animals and even inanimate objects eloquently taking on human personalities, as in "Bull" or "The Root Hunter." Stylistically, Sanchez is obviously of the generation of Dali, Miro and Picasso-but with a small difference. Far more than his contemporaries, he kept a firm foot, however far away he was, on the good Spanish earth...