Word: frescoes
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...quarters?over a restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema? for the opening of the high holy day, Rosh Hashana (Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish art movement in the U. S. with the Hebrew alphabet as its central motif...
...Indian mestizos who rule Mexico love nothing so much as a mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more...
...colleagues, the critics, looked doubtfully at Walter Pach's show. The pictures were dull. There was a big fresco that Pach's Class of 1903 at the College of the City of New York had agreed to give their alma mater. In it three lumpish women illustrating the College's motto, Respice, Adspice and Prospice, symbolically wave their arms about at the past, present and future. Best of the other works were the water colors and several small portrait frescoes, notably one of his wife, Magda, all done with admirable intelligence and solid, conventional technique. There were...
...amateur, who will find much to hold his interest even in the first part of Mr. Laurie's book, which deals with the kind of pigments and media accessible to the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, and to the Middle Ages and ourselves. There is a chapter on fresco painting--just now, with the astonishing revival of that genre, Mr. Laurie's remarks, like the late Gardner Hale's brochure, ought to be useful to earnest Americans, eager to appreciate both the Mexicana and our native products...
...their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what the future will be like under Socialism." all the stations are panelled in rare marble, decorated with huge murals in fresco and mosaic, lit by solid bronze fixtures. The gleaming red-&-buff cars are staffed by attendants in red-&-blue uniforms...