Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rivera took his $14,000 and offered to reproduce the subject free for any one who would give him wall space. The New Workers took him up.* But since Communist workers have no walls to match those of the Capitalist Rockefellers the original scheme had to be dropped. What Artist Rivera made instead was a cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent...
Conservative critics found their usual faults with Rivera's work-a lack of coordination between the various sections, a terrific overcrowding of the individual pictures with figures and incidents. What no one realized until he actually saw the frieze was the effective propaganda Artist Rivera could make when freed from the necessities of Capitalist contracts. Biased as a princess slip though they were, the 21 fresco panels made the most exciting show of the season...
...reception last week to inspect the panels and to speed Artist Rivera back to Mexico, Critic Walter Pach spoke feelingly behind his great mustache: "Diego Rivera has given artists in this country a great example of artistic integrity." Added Artist John Sloan: "These are the first examples of an inspired, fired man's mural art in this country...
...number of historic incidents that Artist Rivera managed to crowd on his hard plaster panels was impressive. To be quickly identified were Dutch settlers purchasing Manhattan at the point of a matchlock; a slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy...
...have mentioned above, many words usually considered dirty, I have not found anything that I consider to be dirt for dirt's sake. If one does not wish to associate with such folk as Joyce describes, that is one's own choice. . . . But when such a real artist as Joyce undoubtedly is, seeks to draw a true picture of the lower middle class in a European city, ought it to be impossible for the American public legally to see that picture...