Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain in 1952, he met Francisco Cossio who had never had an exhibition in the U.S. but was acclaimed at home as one of Spain's foremost contemporaries. TIME'S story on Cossio (Sept. 21, 1953) was accompanied by a full-page color reproduction of his mural of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. An example of a new artist is Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner (now a U.S. citizen), first spotted by TIME in 1947. Later, he was considered important enough for us to reproduce in color four pages of his work (TIME...
After the onlookers dispersed, Orozco discovered the source of his embarrassment. A few days earlier, the University's plasterer--eager to contribute his best toward the success of the mural--had installed what be described as "the best water-proof plaster in the world...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
Blots & Bandages. Still, it was quite unlike the picture Leonardo was believed to have painted. Milan's cold and damp winter wind (which her opera stars survive by will alone) had been whining at the wall that held the mural for 450 seasons. In Leonardo's own lifetime the wall began to show splotches of dampness. Over the centuries, well-meaning restorers flattened out blisters and bandaged the picture's cracks with liberal applications of plaster, painted over to resemble the chilblained masterpiece beneath. Five separate times, at least, alien hands overlaid Leonardo's mural...
Preston Foster, as a surburban husband fed up with his wife, three children, and his wall-to-wall carpeting way of life, could not be more harried and sincere. By the end of the evening, however, his carpet fixation has become only an intra-mural joke...