Word: mural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a rash of recent criticism, Quincy House residents have voiced almost unanimous satisfaction with their much-discussed mural. A poll published in the Quincy Mascle shows that most students are willing to keep the work, a few are enthusiastic about its merits, and only a negligible minority wish to have it removed...
...past few weeks several alumni have objected to the mural and called for its removal. Most Quincyites, according to the Mascle, feel these "old men" should "mind their own business...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous...
Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors, thus placing the coffee sippers within a napping tent of a picture. "How could a person paint that happy and be Dutch?" wondered an admiring American. The next year Appel left Holland. Now, married to a Dutch model, sought after by collectors, he prospers mightily in Paris, has been accepted as an officer in good standing in the hierarchy of international expressionism. His work hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...second letter which he has written to the Bulletin to condemn the graffito, Robert L. Buell '19 suggested that Quincy House residents be invited to vote as to whether they wish the mural to remain or to be painted...