Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flautists. At the Reinhardt Galleries, 26 paintings by Spaniard Hipolito Hidalgo de Caviedes gave Manhattanites their first good look at the work of the Carnegie First Prize Winner of 1935. A specialist in china-clear coloring and slightly rococo composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians...
...During the spring and summer, paintings by El Greco and other great works belonging to galleries in Madrid, notably the Prado Museum, were removed under fire to Valencia and in some cases to Paris. While Spanish artists in Spain stubbornly ignored the war if they could, in Paris Spaniard Pablo Picasso found the perfect subject for his new horror-mangled style in a huge mural, The Bombing of Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsf...
Especially fascinating to Cleveland visitors were the works of two famed European experimentalists, Spaniard Pablo Gargallo and Rumanian Constantin Brancusi. Gargallo, who died in 1934, was a blacksmith whose skill with metals helped him to do some of the most intricate abstractions in modern sculpture. His bronze, Prophet (see cut), was a figure constructed half of metal and half of empty space, as a piece of music is built of sound and silence. Brancusi's work was represented by a torso composed of three softly melting cylinders and a bust, Mile Pogany, showing the subject as geometry in meditation...
Three sculptors included in the Cleveland show, Zorach, Heinz Warneke and John Flannagan, got a more varied display of their work in Manhattan's Passedoit Gallery, sharing honors with Spaniard Jose de Creeft, whose Semitic Head was the most impressive single piece on display. Done in beaten lead, this dark maiden was also highest priced ($4,000) in the exhibit...
...Franco's blunder in attacking Madrid, "he declared," showed how little of a Spaniard he really was." Almost complete unity and cooperation in defending the city resulted from this action, he added. "The Spanish people will never submit to a Fascist government...