Word: frescoe
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...airplane flies above a group of toiling sleelworkers. Below is an architect's drafting room. Directly below Rivera's self-portrait, talking over the work in progress, stands a group of three. Buttonholed between Timothy Pflueger and Arthur Brown Jr. (architects) is the donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting the news that the architects have not been able to keep inside the original estimates. Rich Mr. Gerstle is president of the San Francisco Art Association, also of Apollo Consolidated Mining...
Behind the banner were months of elaborate and painstaking organization which were to give the city its first outdoor opera. It would not be the Metropolitan troupe which Senator Robert Johns Bulkley brings to the city every year through his Northern Ohio Opera Association, but a gigantic al fresco show, home-produced in the month-old Municipal Stadium. Beneficiary of the performance was the Cleveland Press's milk fund. Purpose was to entertain those of the citizenry who like music and those who like spectacles. A further purpose was to illuminate iron-mongering Cleveland's place...
...syndicate. Beside Rivera and Orozco there were such names as Jean Chariot, Carlos Merida and Pachecho. Their water boy and official brush washer was Miguel Covarrubias, now a highly paid smartchart caricaturist. Artist Orozco meanwhile was experimenting with the medium that was to bring him his greatest success: true fresco, painting in tempera on wet plaster so that the design becomes a part of and not an application to the wall. In 1929 the political explosion that brought death to thousands of Mexican soldiers landed Artist Orozco in New York where he was adopted wholeheartedly by Miss Alma Reed, operator...
...feel as though the building would fall down if the fresco were removed...
...further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards at a time. "Fresco painting," explained Artist Orozco, "has much to do with the time of day. If I start one piece at ten in the morning, I must start the next piece at ten the next morning so that the colors will dry the same...