Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leon Trotsky, cooped up in his Mexico City refuge and pledged to silence on matters affecting Mexico, almost burst with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into...
...found, did not believe that there were any distinguished painters working for the Government. But as PWAP was replaced by WPA, as the Art Project acquired more & more prestige,-he gradually began to bring the board round. Last year a young WPA muralist named Edward Laning finished an immense mural for the dining room of the Ellis Island immigrant station. Mr. Stokes contemplated its lusty, full-fleshed figures, its skillful gathering of groups, told the board that Edward Laning...
...Francisco mural at Fleishhacker Zoo was a big, bright-colored affair done in egg tempera,*portraying the story of Noah and the Ark. The work of Dorothy Puccinelli and Helen Forbes, it showed pretty animals embarking and debarking, a highly stylized Noah. But if the mural was restrained, its dedication was not: school children dressed as animals re-enacted the story of the flood, 2,000 pigeons were released during the ceremony...
...Swarthmore, visitors had almost as much trouble seeing the paintings for the fogs of publicity. Two years ago, bashful James Egleson, then 29, got permission to paint an anti-war mural on the walls of a good-sized lecture room in Swarthmore College. An engineer who turned to painting when his eyes began to fail, studied under Jose Clemente Orozco, Artist-Engineer Egleson kept the lecture room locked while he worked, breeding stories that conservative graduates were trying to have the murals suppressed...
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...