Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat. For the Attorney General's office...
...commissioned hundreds of private murals of their own. In the supplement, TIME presents a cross-section of the murals, public & private, now being erected in this country. Their only common denominator is the desire to say something definite about the U. S., to get away from vapid allegory and Artist Gilbert White's ladies in cheesecloth...
...commenting upon the time required for the painting of a three quarter figure. Martin stated that it varies widely according to the method employed by the artist. His own technique, he said, is based upon direct painting, beginning immediately to develop the drawing, form, and color with the brush. This method, he feels, tends to produce work with greater vitalfty and accuracy because the mind apparently operates most efficiently at top speed...
...Senior year, Martin had decided that portrait painting would be his vocation. The next step, he felt, would be to attach himself to an artist whose work he admired, whose critical judgment he trusted, and who was not connected with an art school. He became a tutor and general handy-man in the household of Wayman Adams and worked with him for two years...
...sponsored by the W.P.A. Richard Burgin is conducting this week at the Boston Symphony concerts, and the program contains Roy Harris's Second Symphony, the suite of dances from "The Basque Venus" by Wetzler, and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto no. 5 in E flat with Leonard Shure, local artist, at the piano. This is Mr. Shure's debut with the orchestra...