Word: ribera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland's finest acquisitions are Goya's portrait of the Infante Don Luis de Boróon and Ribera's Death of Adonis (see color pages). Both works demonstrate Lee's flawless flair for picking a masterpiece that is also an unusual example of its kind. "The modern audience," says Lee, "has come to look to Goya for a brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth...
...decor. Murals by avant-garde artists grace the interior, a bronze monk by Sculptor Pablo Serrano stands in the garden. The art gallery displays old masters, modern masters and, perhaps, future masters. Three Picassos, a Miro and two Dalis counterpoint Goya's majas and works by El Greco, Ribera and Velasquez...
...figure, she vehemently shuns the dehumanized faces that spare many fashionable artists any need to confront the individual. "No orange blobs," says she. "I'll paint a face where there is one." On a recent swing around the Mediterranean, she discovered at first hand the proto-baroque painters, Ribera and Caravaggio, and has borrowed their theatrical use of localized light to heighten her figures' impression of stirring the air around them...
...their placid luster to the candid Goyas and the anamorphic El Grecos. Glimpsed as a whole, the exhibition has an almost rotogravure quality in the predominant browns and blacks of the backgrounds, the dramatic lighting that seems to spotlight colorful details like the little nosegay on the staff of Ribera's Saint Joseph (opposite). Landscapes are notably missing: Spanish painters were mostly interested in painting people rather than scenery. But religious subjects, redolent of the mystery and aspiration that typified every Spaniard's day-by-day point of view, abound. Murillo's Christ After the Flagellation (overleaf...