Word: mural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...André Malraux, to redecorate the ceiling at the Paris Opera. This vast pantheon to music swirls with 2,153 sq. ft. of ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall made a truly princely gesture: he presented the ceiling, a year's labor, to France as a gift. Without fanfare...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...have installed more than 100 commissioned works in the complex city within a city. Some of its sculptures are even now legendary, if vintage: Paul Manship's gilded Prometheus, Lee Lawrie's 45-ft.-high Atlas looming over Fifth Avenue. There is even a 1932 Stuart Davis mural in a men's room. Appropriately, it is titled Men Without Women...
Nivola cut costs to $30,000 by using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
...Murmured something one to of your the neighbors, Mrs. Dan Sweeney, "My kids hope he'll teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some scaffolding...