Word: graffito
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Five alumni have field angry protests against the artistic quality of the graffito which decorates the main dining room in Quincy House...
...There is no proper definition of art that might appropriately be applied to this mural," Coleman claimed. He criticized the "revolutionary methods" adopted in creating the graffito as "completely false to nature," and added, "The result is not art. It is nonsensical...
...Harvard should be ashamed," asserted Robert O. Muller '34, who compared the graffito unfavorably with designs made in desk grooves by bored students "during some of the lesser lectures...
Some Mather residents may wish to retain their affiliation with Leverett, and should be allowed to move into the Towers. Those, however, who do not wish to pack up or to miss the marvelous graffito should become Quincy affiliates. They can become pioneers a year late...
...graffito, which the artist and his 15-year-old son Peter completed in one day late in August, is 30 feet wide and 16 feet high. Working behind a team of plasterers who spread a quarter inch of white stucco over the black wall, Nivola first outlined his figures in paint with a thin brush. Then he and his son filled in the outline with solid blues, yellows and orange. Finally Nivola scratched deep lines through the colors and plaster to the black wall...