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...been asked, amid the intellectual and political convulsions that tore Spain asunder between 1790 and 1815, "Whose side are you on?", he would have answered, "Reason's." For Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, the gilder's son from Aragon, did not have the education of a Diderot or a Rousseau, but he was completely a figure of the Enlightenment; his paintings and prints, with their obsessive imagery of the conflict of light and darkness, are perhaps its supreme metaphorical expression in European art outside of the classically formalized work of Jacques-Louis David...
...above all the limitless cruelties inflicted in the name of orthodoxy (by the Inquisition) and political conquest (by the invading French and their guerrilla opponents): these possess him as they have possessed no other artist before or since. Seen through his encyclopedic vision of folly and cruelty, Goya's Spain is more like Dean Swift's Ireland than Voltaire's Europe...
...post-Franco Spain, whose artistic class has been liberated into hedonism, a figure like Almodovar can serve as both court jester and king. He was so proclaimed last week when the Spanish newsmagazine Cambio 16 named him Man of the Year: "Our best representative in a world in which Spain is in fashion." And now the 37-year-old man from La Mancha is world cinema's flavor of the month. His latest film, the relatively benign Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, is a solid international hit. The comedy has earned $2.5 million in just ten weeks...
...authorities captured the notorious leader of the Basque hard-liners, Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea (alias: Josu Ternera), 38. The arrest last week of the ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty) terrorist was hailed as a major breakthrough in a three-year Franco-Spanish offensive against Basque extremists fighting for independence in Spain...
Born Sybilla Sorondo in New York City, she worked for a year in Paris at Yves Saint Laurent as a seamstress, getting down her technique but drawing inspiration from the streets of Spain, where she grew up. She showed her first collection in Madrid in 1983, a "100% idealistic period, when I only did dresses for people who came to me." By 1984, however, she was selling her designs to other shops, and in three years she was producing more than her Spanish manufacturer could handle. She switched to GIBO, and although she admits, "I'm always terrified of losing...