Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter Gropius was kind enough to keep me informed of any writeups on the mural which I painted for the new Commons building. I now receive a copy of the CRIMSON in which you report of the competition for a suitable title for my mural...
...mural in the Harkness Commons dining hall has been christened "The Garden of Eden." Walter Gropius, chief designer of the Graduate Center and judge in the recent contest to name the mural, awarded the $15 prize to Fred Ringel...
...Gropius qualified his choice by noting that naming the work of another artist is a difficult task. "An artist's message addresses the intuitive faculties of the onlooker rather than his intellect...
...attempt to explain a contemporary painting is a difficult task," said Gropius. "It represents a psychological mood in the mind of the creator, who tries, by interplay of lines and colors, to reproduce that mood in the mind of the beholder. An artist cannot be expected to show literary genius as well...
Itichard Ripin 3G, president of the International Society for the Propagation of Taste and Discernment among Intellectuals and Others--the group running the contest--said last night: "We are deeply honored and gratified that Professor Gropius has soon fit to accept the position of arbiter in this competition. We feel certain that whatever title is finally chosen by Professor Gropius will reflect fully the artistic magnificence and the intellectual forthrightness of this noble work...