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Also in Perpignan popped up Jose Maria Sert, Spain's best known modern mural painter. As Generalissimo Francisco Franco's art representative, he wanted to check over the paintings which may soon -under the Loyalists' own terms-become Rebel Spain's property. Señor Sert declared himself satisfied that the paintings had been taken good care of, that they were all intact. On their nation's art Rebel and Loyalist had agreed...
...painted. There seems to be little doubt that, when he began to paint again it was in response to a political event -the war in Spain. In any case, the two works which have put him in the news since 1936 have been public, polemical jobs: his big, lacerating mural, Guernica, for the Spanish government pavilion at the Paris exposition of 193 7, and a series of hairy-nightmare etchings entitled Dreams and Lies of Franco. At the same time, Picasso's previous work has begun to emerge from the smoke of controversy into the lucidity of history...
Unquestionably Hiler's masterpiece, this mural embodies a refinement of intelligent detail and one of the most thoroughly studied color systems now at the command of an artist. He has evolved his own color chart, with 24 hues based not on the spectrum, obtained by the mechanical refraction of white light, but on pigments found in nature and the observed human reactions to them. He is far prouder of the Aquatic Park's "color chart room"-in which these hues and their tints, shades and tones are painted on a 60-foot ceiling -than of the undersea murals...
Ready for mounting in Courtroom No. 4 of the Federal court & postoffice building at Newark. N. J. was a two-panel mural by 26-year-old Artist Tanner M. Clark of Somerville. N. J.. who devoted two and one-half years and 500 egg yolks* to depicting the role of courts in protecting children. One of his panels portrayed happy schoolboys at play; the other, a factory machine slicing off a working girl's hand...
Said the Judge in a terse memorandum explaining his protest to the U. S. Treasury (which had paid Artist Clark $800 of $2,000 due him): "The work ... is exceptionally well done and there are many appropriate places where such murals might be displayed. . . . [But] jurors should not have their minds affected by exhibits not legally admitted in evidence. . . . The mural depicting the injury . . . would be referred to by counsel [in accident cases] ... as depicting pain, anguish and sorrow...