Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern art and not enough critics who have felt this failure have been driven back to the Renaissance, or to other periods where form and content were better balanced. Mr. Rodman on the other hand began with a consideration of "popular art" and then moved to Haiti and mural decorations by contemporary folk artists. In the Haitian artist Philome Obin, Rodman felt he found an artist who was giving "a true account of himself and his civilzation...
...Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been up against an iron phalanx of pro-Marxist critics. Only four years ago die the government finally relent, award him his first official mural commission (TIME, April...
...Wessell's administration the College has acquired a new $660,000 Arts Center from a Boston lawyer named Edward Cohen. Cohen, who studied at Boston College and the University of California, received an honorary degree at Tufts' centennial exercises in 1952. A feature in the Center is a large mural in egg tempera including all of Tufts' dignitaries from its first president, Hosea Ballou II, to Wessell...
...history which is recorded on this mural, Tufts has grown in value from $100,000, the amount raised to found the college, to its present finaincial value of $36,000,000, of which half is in endowment. Most Tufts men are familiar with the story of how its original funds were raised. At a Universalist convention in New York the Reverend Ballou preached the sermon to open the convention on the forty-eighth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke: "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of them...
...room, and a huge kitchen, chock-full of pizzas. Sinatra bounced around each room with assured grace, talking pure Sinatrese. Samples: "I'm very large down in Australia." Pointing to the fancy trappings: "The furniture's finished in teak, you might say," or to a huge Japanese mural painted across an entire wall: "It's a Japanese print, you might say." By contrast, Boston Barrister Joseph Welch, chatting graciously with Murrow from his eleven-room, 150-year-old Walpole, Mass, home, was funny and brimming with sweet charity. Said he: "If I go on having any more...