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Visitors to last week's show got a good idea of Goya's enormous scope and variety. Though his works always had an underpinning of fiercely honest realism, they ranged from elegant portraiture, through caricature, to expressionist outpourings of violent emotion and surrealist fantasies. Goya's Majo is a mysterious dandy painted in a style of courtly elegance. His expressionist St. Peter Repentant, roughly and swiftly constructed of broad brushstrokes, is a rocklike old man in an agony of remorse after thrice betraying Christ. In his besieged City on a Rock, the master turns surrealist and dreamlike...
...smart Obelisco Gallery have seen some unusual exhibits lately-churches in flames, frolicking priests, transparent cats gorged on mice and flowers. But last week's show topped them all. Gallery Owner Gaspero del Corso had reached out to Belgium and brought back 28 paintings by an old surrealist funnyman, Brussels' dour little René Magritte (TIME. June 21, 1948). For Romans, it was a first good look at Magritte's sleepy fantasies. Del Corso's enthusiastic verdict: "They are scandalized...
...Surrealist Magritte is still up to his old tricks. "I'm always looking for a feeling of luxury, of uselessness," he says, and his newest pictures are plainly froth: light, half-joking canvases whose titles are meant to titillate, not explain. He showed a slim grand piano encircled with a wedding ring, called it The Happy Hand. His Art of Conversation has two graceful swans paddling neck to neck about a blue lake. His Hesitation Waltz is a picture of two oranges decked out in masks, eying each other warily. One of the favorites: Night at Pisa, which shows...
Beyond heaving an occasional rhetorical rock at his fellow artists for misunderstanding him, Salvador Dali has been strangely quiet for the past six months, living in seclusion in his villa at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what he regards as his masterpiece. It is a large (7½ft. by 4⅔ ft.) Madonna which Dali calls in Latin Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapislazulina (The Bodily Assumption in Blue). At the summit of his elongated Madonna is the head of his wife, Gala, gazing heavenward; her body is being...
...most obvious links to the past were provided by such oldtimers as Karl Hofer, 74, dean of the German expressionists, still painting his slab-faced people. The abstractionists and surrealists showed more vigor and inventiveness, but nothing to compare with the explosive stuff of postwar France and Italy. Among the best of them: Old Surrealist (59) Edgar Ende's The Organ and Deserted Shop, both stark and enlivened by bold strokes of coral, cerise, blue...