Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scratched the murals. Finally the Minister of Education was petitioned to stop the havoc. This he did by asking the painters to "make no more targets for mischievous boys." Discouraged, the syndicate broke up, the painters fled to quieter places. But the seed of a national tradition in art had been sown. Following were the sowers...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back...
...Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real artist should know and enjoy the subjects of his paintings...
...Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...
Immediate author of the change was a Russo-Turk named Mehemed Fehmy Agha whom Publisher Nast brought to the U. S. last month and made art director of all the Nast publications...