The hardest job for a painter in Paris is to be original; the next hardest job is to be wilder and woollier than one's associates. Oscar Dominguez achieves the No. 2 aim with distinction. His latest works, on exhibition in a Paris gallery this week, prove that when he settles down before an easel, Dominguez can be wild in a mighty workmanlike way.
Hits of the show are twelve geometrically patterned pictures of bullfights, which Dominguez painted in three weeks. Done with a few simple lines and clear colors, they recall bullfight scenes painted...
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