Word: mural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge to Paint Big, D'Arcangelo grasped at the opportunity offered by a landlord who owns a five-story tenement next to a parking lot in Manhattan's East Village. The landlord agreed to turn over the side of his building to be used for a mural, put up the price of the paints and the use of a professional scaffolder (total...
...mural has fascinated local res idents-a mixed bag of Village hippies, Poles, Ukrainians and Puerto Ricans. "At first," says D'Arcangelo, "they thought it was going to be some sort of a sign, and kept asking which company was putting it up. We kept telling them, 'We are painting this for you.' Pretty soon, they began to like the idea." Only problem: if a new building goes up in the parking lot, there goes the mural, sealed off from sight between old wall...
Ever since Jackson Pollock and the first abstract expressionists began enlarging their canvases back in the late 1940s, American paintings have been getting bigger and bigger. To show the lengths-and heights-that artists are going to nowadays, Manhattan's Jewish Museum this week put on display 23 mural-size paintings, with a total area of 2,883 sq. ft. The smallest, James Bishop's Story, is a mere 61 ft. sq. The largest, Al Held's Greek Garden, is a breathtaking panorama of cabalistic circles, squares and triangles that measures 12 ft. high...
...masses are storming the Amalgamated Bank." Bendiner also describes the struggle to undermine the American way of life by slipping working-class propaganda into WPA art projects. "Swarthmore College felt obliged to close up a room in which no fewer than six clenched fists were detected in a WPA mural," Bendiner recalls. "After a mild uproar the room was reopened with three of the fists removed-a fair compromise for the time...
Having mastered the secrets of mural painting to his satisfaction, he does not mean to rest. Among his unfinished projects is a 54-panel March of Humanity to be installed in the Olimpico Hotel, scheduled for completion at the time of the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the March covers 48,000 sq. ft., it will be the world's largest mural. To Siqueiros, that is only as it should be. Says he proudly: "Mexican muralism is being reconsidered and recognized all over the world. It is not a nationalist movement, but a transcendental...