Word: mural
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...corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result was a surprise to Picasso as well as the spectators. Picasso had painted the mural on 40 separate wood panels in his studio. Seeing the panels assembled for the first time...
...difficult to believe that this time Picasso had tried very hard. To help reporters puzzle out the meaning of the big, empty mural, Director Salles explained, "The painting represents the victory of forces of light and peace over those of evil and death. The skeleton-like figure [center] with black wings is falling through an infinity of blue, like the fall of Icarus, while a female form [left] rises majestically, white and radiant. On the right side of the painting, the three brown figures in repose are the motionless spectators of the drama; they symbolize humanity at peace, contemplating...
...From his $50,000 ranch house, among the garish candy-colored villas of Miami, Bill indulges his passing whims (e.g., water skiing and skindiving). Visitors make him nervous as they leave burning cigarettes on expensive table tops and track sand on lush new carpets, stare at his specially commissioned mural of knights in armor, gawk at the somber black decor of the master bedroom with its giant closet of 40 suits, or at the bookshelves stocked only with Racing Form chart books. Hartack walks around the house like a new bride, emptying ashtrays, positioning furniture, fidgeting over the least speck...
...best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...beautiful?" he exclaims. "One must speak of problems in painting!" Such rumblings give the art world warning that the volcano is still alive, may erupt again before the world's astonished eyes. The most demanding commission of his career is now directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver shot sounds, the old master can be depended on to keep the world's eyes focused on the tip of his brush...