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...16th century, screen painting had become as central to the visual culture of traditional Japan as fresco painting was to Italians. The very size of byōbu-which run to a width of twelve feet and more-was an exacting test of the painter's virtuosity in handling watercolor or sumi ink across large areas; it made the paintings into a kind of environment conducive to meditation and withdrawal. Because they were made for domestic use, the imagery of byōbu is generally secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense...
...creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others, Giotto. The dead Christ was a sight to make angels weep, and in his fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Giotto summed up all its terrible pathos in the little angels that tumble like shot birds...
...executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public be allowed to watch him work...
...forces put an end to Czechoslovakia's "Springtime of Freedom," and he personally visited Prague the following year to oversee the removal of Reformer Alexander Dubcek from the leadership of the party. Czechoslovaks bitterly refer to the bullet-pocked facade of Prague's National Museum as "a fresco a la Grechko...
...Jancsó has relatively little interest in the incident itself or in the characters of the people who instigated it. He is, instead, obsessed with illustrating the forces that drove the individuals involved. His camera sweeps about his actors in broad brush strokes, imprisoning them in an enormous, existential fresco...