Word: mural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jaron Bourke '88, the director of Harvard Watch, said the findings demonstrate the "very narrow range of extra-mural interests" and call into question the committee's priorities...
...This happened with the confluence of modernism, Marxism and nostalgia for the fresco cycles of pre-Hispanic antiquity that turned in the 1920s, under the patronage of Mexico's Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos, into the mural movement: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The special value of this show is that instead of treating these Big Three as isolated characters, it presents a dozen or more other Mexican artists of the time in some depth -- starting with the spectacularly gifted Saturnino Herran, who would certainly be as celebrated today as Rivera himself...
...fanciful graffiti forms range from stylized signature "tags" to mural- size "pieces" that elaborately blend fanciful script, cartoon characters and messages with the artist's street name. In Los Angeles authorities are contending with organized teams of taggers who use sophisticated climbing gear to spray their signatures on overpasses or dodge high-speed traffic to emblazon murals on freeway center dividers. "They know their names will be up for months because the state department of transportation has to shut down the freeway to paint over the dividers," a harried official complained last week at a Los Angeles antigraffiti conference attended...
...individual creations will be arranged so that, when the mural is viewed from afar, the colored papers will depict a group of children...
...Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Harvard Neighborhood Development (HAND)--will distribute art supplies next month to elementary school students who will create artwork based on their ethnic backgrounds. The Harvard students will then help collect the artwork and assemble each of the approximately 35,000 pieces into a large mural at Roxbury Community College...