Word: frescoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the doors were unlocked last week, the legends evaporated. Painted in true fresco† in warm and rich greys, browns and purples, the mural dramatized the productive and destructive possibilities of science with contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...
...accomplished Italian counterpart of America's John Carroll, it was a comprehensive though not a highly selective show. The 100 paintings included works by private painters as well as painters on whom the Corporate State has set the seal of official approval by commissioning them to do frescoes for public buildings and for the Italian Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition last summer. Among artists represented were Severini, a onetime Futurist who has come back to Tuscany; Pirandello, son of the playwright; Carra, another Futurist who now paints slablike figure studies; Campigli, a respected abstractionist and fresco painter; Cagli...
Perfect example of the art which grew up in Mediterranean sunlight and in contempt of all barbarians North, East and South (see above) is the art of fresco painting. On the island of Crete and in Egypt as early as 2,900 B. C. artists were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit...
...Assistant Clerk in the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, salary 90? an hour, $1,560 a year, to paint his picture. Under him will be six assistants, listed as "artists" and drawing $1.60 an hour for a 15-hour week. The 2,500 square feet of dry fresco will take about three months to finish. At his normal rate of self-valuation Assistant Clerk Marsh's commission for a mural of this size would...
Every morning at 7 a. m. he started off by pounding his colors. The murals were done in dry fresco, and because paint had to be applied while the walls were wet, Artist Vanka stayed on his scaffolding virtually all day and usually until 2 or 3 a. m. At night Father Zagar stayed with him, droning prayers. Over the domed altar he painted a 36-ft. Madonna & Child in rich reds and blues, violet and silver, on one side wall a scene of Croatian peasants kneeling at the Angelus, on the other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing...