Word: velascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died 33 years ago is now being referred to by critics as "one of the great landscape painters of modern times." The evidence for this judgment was on view last week at the Brooklyn Museum, which was showing no paintings and drawings by José María Velasco...
...Velasco had been virtually forgotten, even in Mexico, until three years ago. Then President Avila Camacho suddenly declared the painter's work a "national monument." His rediscovery was doubtless hastened by the Western Hemisphere's new cultural self-consciousness and loss of contact with wartime Europe...
...devout, home-loving man, the father of 13 children, Velasco taught for years at the National Academy in Mexico City, encouraged such promising pupils as Diego Rivera. He visited the World's Fairs in Chicago; and Philadelphia, detested the hubbub of North American cities...
Nothing quite like it had ever happened before in Ecuador. In a speech before the town council at Cuenca. Alfonso Pena Jaramillo attacked President José Maria Velasco Ibarra, was promptly jailed for showing "disrespect." Just as promptly, the President came to the rescue. Wired President Velasco to Critic Jaramillo: "You have perfect freedom to think, criticize and censure. You have been the victim of an abuse of which I protest as the President of a liberal country...
...afternoon at half-past two and our Government is run like a nightclub." But last week's uprising, which gave the country its 14th President in 15 years, was more than a nightclub brawl. A popular movement with democratic aspirations had overthrown an unpopular government with dictatorial inclinations. Velasco Ibarra still had to prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters, pushing economic reform, and ridding the world of fascism. With Army help, they forced...