| Abstrakt: |
The story of American author Ernest Hemingway and the Spanish painter Luis Quintanilla illustrates the pattern of many of Hemingway's friendships, namely warmth, shared artistic beliefs, high personal regard, endorsement and admiration, generosity, then coolness followed by doubt, criticism, scorn and eventually rupture of what was once a strong bond. Several of Hemingway's well known friends were all dismissed when Hemingway lost respect for their artistic talent or doubted their personal loyalty to him. The lives of Hemingway and Quintanilla intersected in two ways; Hemingway saw in Quintanilla, as well as in himself, a man of art and a man of action. Quintanilla's art and military service as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War both defended Spain, which is the country and people Hemingway had come to love. |
