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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...
...more recent times, Gaughin and Picasso have used Renaissance and Egyptian figures as inspirations, said Brendel. The Medici Venus statue was the basis for one of Gaughin's figures in his Tahitian paintings, while Picasso has used an ancient statue of a kneeling Venus in his series of paintings: La Comedie Humaine...
Extrapolation. In Venice, Italy, confused by recent changes in the U.S. flag, the Excelsior Hotel took no chances, on a Fourth of July poster painted four American Hags, two with 42 stars, two with...
Quantitative to Qualitative. While most liberals are clearer, at this point, about what they are not than about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation...
...number of foreign students again was raised, to 305, or 8 per cent of the total enrollment, a high for recent years...