Word: mural
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...Weimar in 1919. To separate any Bauhaus exhibit into class divisions is misleading since a primary doctrine was to unite the crafts with the fine arts and to fuse these two into a third and ultimate structure-the building. Thus resulted buildings like Harvard's Harkness Commons with a mural of colored tile by Herbert Bayer, a brick relief by Josef Albers, the textiles by his wife Anni Albers, and the architecture by Gropius...
...Henry Varnum Poor, 82, muralist, ceramist, painter, architect and art teacher; of a heart attack; in New City, N.Y. Known first for his pottery, Poor in the mid-1930s took his brush to Washington, D.C., where he executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public...
...often miles from the main highways, but convenient to theaters and stores. Behind gold-and-white facades are elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal Inn-at-the-Wharf in the company's headquarters town, San Diego, have a gymnasium. The Royal...
Mather has no artwork, either. Although Carlhain designed some genuinely imaginative art for the House (an enormous clock to fit inside the library's circular staircase, a huge dining hall mural spewing skim milk from trompe l' oeil spouts), all of it was eliminated in the budget trimming which also deprived the student rooms of carpeting and closet doors. Noise pollution, too, is a problem: there is no division between bedrooms in the doubles, and it has been suggested that at Mather, the sound of one hand clapping in the Dining Hall can be heard in the Junior Common Room...
...than 150 houses in more than 75 New England towns during his 20 years as a muralist and, as in the case of his portraits, rarely signed his work. One day in 1940, Jean Lipman, editor of Art in America, noticed Porter's signature and date on a mural. She followed up the clue, studied his style, slowly identified his other works, and eventually pieced his lifetime together in her book, Rufus Porter, Yankee Pioneer...