Word: frescoes
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...bail in Mexico City last week was the fieriest Mexican muralist of them all, David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1922, when he was a baby-faced revolutionist, Siqueiros organized and ran the famed Syndicate of masons and painters (Charlot, Orozco, Merida, Montenegro, de la Cueva, Rivera) who revived true fresco in America. Since the dispersal of that illustrious company, Sparkplug Siqueiros has led strikes in Mexico, preached socialist esthetics in Manhattan, fought in Spain as a colonel in the Loyalist Army. When he returned from the war last month he vowed to settle down and paint. Fortnight ago President Cardenas personally...
...freshness and beauty of these maps, painted in fresco-like colors with a new acetate binder, was equalled by their value as visual educators. Researchers at Coast universities helped dig up the material which Artist Covarrubias translated into symbolic figures illustrating the Pacific's peoples, economy, art forms, flora & fauna. Prettiest map: Flora & Fauna, in which gay Artist Covarrubias hung his Brazilian sloth from the bar of the Equator...
From Fogg Museum itself a number of loans have been made. Prominent are two fragments of fresco from a cave at Tun Huang in Western China:--a Head of a Bodhisattva, and Three Old Men. These two paintings have that strange, unmistakable violet hue which results when the flesh tints have faded. From Mr. Warner's own collection a number of items are being displayed. In addition to a Japanese priest's mask and two gilt bronzes, there is a T'and painting (or print) of the priest Hsuan Tsang, carrying on his back the Holy Books that brought Buddhism...
Undoubtedly a major work of Spanish Romanesque art is the fresco of a fantastic monster, recently acquired and installed in Warburg Hall at the Fogg Museum. Mounted attractively on the room's south wall, it is likely to win the most casual observer with its vigorous representation and rich color, its size and dignity. The fresco represents a species of griffin, showing the head and wings of an eagle, the neck of a serpent, and the tail of a cock. Though his body is much blurred, ferocity still lives in his eye, tension in his talons, strength in his large...
...paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly painted in. Yet, even at close range, the work unmistakably possesses the texture and rugged surface of fresco...