Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith's childhood associations flow into a career as a sculptor was seeing photos, not the originals, of the metal sculpture of Picasso and his fellow Spaniard, González, in an art magazine published in the early '30s. Smith had been a painting student in New York City. Working iron, he saw, might have the directness of painting. It was an intrinsically modern material, which had, as he said, "little art history. What associations it possesses...
...Portuguese doubtless were relieved that the attack on the Pope at Fátima came not from one of their own but from a visiting Spaniard, Juan Fernández y Krohn, 32. Police investigators soon confirmed that Fernández was, as he had appeared to be, a priest-but an archconservative one. He was ordained at the seminary of Ecône in Switzerland, the traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however...
...FOGG'S exhibition of Master Drawings by Picasso is the first show in this country devoted solely to his works on paper since Alfred Stieglitz displayed the young Spaniard's drawings and etchings at the avant-garde 291 Gallery in New York. That was in 1911. Now, 70 years later on the centennial of Picasso's birth, the Fogg's Gary Tinterow has assembled more than 100 drawing watercolors, and guaches from 50 collections and museums around the world. Because of the recent settling of Picasso's estate, it is now possible to exhibit works that were previously unknown...
Then, in late 1900, Picasso decided to go to Paris. His departure was, for the world of art, the equivalent of Paul's journey to Damascus. He spent his working life in France, but he remained a Spaniard to his elegant fingertips. His piercing, unblinking deep-chestnut eyes spoke of the Spanish soul's passion. Even after he began to prosper, he was content to dress and live like a Spanish peasant, eating beans and drinking coarse red wine, in loud cafes and private rooms of indescribable clutter. And though it was in France that he found fame...
...Dove of Peace, which the Soviets happily substituted for the hammer and sickle as their symbol of peace on earth. No political sophisticate and certainly no ideologue, Picasso eventually distanced himself from the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. As Salvador Dali quipped: "Picasso is a Spaniard -so am I. Picasso is a genius-so am I. Picasso is a Communist...