Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SMITH San Diego...
Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...
...Mexico City last week Diego Rivera, longtime Communist sympathizer, was brushing in the finishing strokes on a new mural. Its title: The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace. Rivera called it "the best thing I have ever done"; it was, at any rate, one of the most violent...
Rivera's latest work, with its unctuous Uncle Joe, brought back memories of the famous mural he painted for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center in 1933. Diego entered the Communist martyrology when the Rockefeller management paid him for the mural but destroyed it because it glorified Lenin and Communism. Last week Rivera was making martyr sounds again: the Mexican government had commissioned his latest mural (on movable panels) as part of a big exhibit of Mexican art to be shown in Paris this May. After a good, hard look at The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace...
While some civilian goods centers (e.g., Detroit and Providence) have been hard hit by unemployment, defense centers (e.g., San Diego and Indianapolis) were short of help. But the jobless showed few signs of abandoning seniority, pension plans, etc., in their old plants and moving...