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...June 13, 1949), he loads his canvas with writhing roots, needle-sharp thorns, blasted trees and immense grasshoppers. There is nothing passively pastoral about Sutherland's nature: his leggy insects and pitiful vegetables are all raw, anguished forms with some of the same kind of supernatural ferocity that Goya got into his bleeding bulls and brutish, Napoleonic troopers...
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES was one of the most dramatic of the old masters, and one of the most unpredictable. An artisan's son who lived during the bloody days of the Napoleonic invasion of Spain, he grew up to be a darling of the court, though he often painted his benefactors to look like vain simpletons. When Napoleon conquered Spain Goya first curried favor with the victors, then commemorated their outrages with a series of compassionate etchings. Last week an exhibition of 81 of the master's works was on display in Richmond...
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...
...Mike, who collects Goya etchings and reads Bernard Shaw, has "an ego as big as a horse . . . the loud ego of genius, real genius." Raking together the cash and crew to shoot the picture, he explains to his scriptwriter how he intends "to sneak in the truth" and make it the kind of Zelsmith Production people respect: "I give them the sex and the brawl, but also a little of the ache and the agony of life. The lousy beauty of it, the crummy pleasures of kids and family life, and art shots and a pain in the heart...
...decided to model himself on Rembrandt, Goya, Chardin and U.S. Painter Thomas Eakins ("one of the greatest portraitists of all time"): "It was a matter of looking and looking and then working and working." The small public that buys pictures approved the results: his Manhattan show was a near sellout...