Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memories of Astarte. Miró has always loathed politics and avoided them. But as a Spaniard who throughout his life has spent most of each year in his native land, he was deeply embittered over the Spanish Civil War. For five months in 1936-37, he labored over one canvas, the Still Life with Old Shoe, which would, he hoped, be simple enough for the humblest Spanish peasant to appreciate. His anguish is mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving...
Franco's personal sympathies have been clear for some time. Distrustful of Don Juan, he played a major role in arranging the young prince's Spanish education and made sure that it included commissions from all three military academies. Last week he tipped his hand further by creating the title of "heir to the throne," which could put Juan Carlos in No. 2 position on the protocol ladder-right behind him. Now all that remains is for Juan Carlos to be formally declared the heir...
...Spanish colonists, American Indians and African-descended slaves used effigy and icon as a part of their religious rituals. In San Antonio, Girard displays pre-Inca dolls found inside burial shrouds, Christian saints and angels, Haitian voodoo fertility symbols. Among the tableaux that most colorfully mix the half-Christian, half-pagan customs are those depicting All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), a festival celebrated in Latin America as a cheerful holiday for the dead...
...very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
...purveying tea, soap and candles in Knightsbridge Village, highway robberies were still common in the area. Today, Knightsbridge is one of London's swankiest sections and the most visible evidence of the tea merchant's modest business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store...