Word: mural
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...explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits radical Painter Diego Rivera against Nelson Rockefeller in discussion of the artist's huge and bustling Radio City mural that contained a head of Lenin...
...jubilant occasion was the repatriation of Guernica, Pablo Picasso's stark protest against the savagery of war, which had come to symbolize Spanish hopes for democracy. Picasso had been commissioned by the Republican government of Spain to paint the mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris...
...less, than he paid for. A bulky man, he scowls from the frame as if sizing up a landscape, and the shadow of his profile, grand as that of his own George Washington, fills the wall behind him. It is the sort of thing meant for a WPA mural. But captured with a fineness that Weston would have envied are hands that tell why this man sculptured mountains. Even though most of the pictures were printed directly from negatives, the exhibition does not pretend to present high points of the photographer's art, nor does it fall...
...immense and dramatic mural of Daniel Webster addressing Congress overlooks the slowly filling courtroom. Hospitality committee members scoot around distributing miniature American flags and pins and ushers frantically direct the noisy audience of friends and family to their seats. Only the immigrants remain almost ominously silent as they line up at the doorway and wait to pass through the strait of naturalization tables lining the entrance to the courtroom. Many of them refuse to answer questions, saying the procedure means nothing to them but an afternoon off from work. But many describe with relish their new lives in the United...
...renovation process has not been entirely smooth. Lodge said that last week an enormous painted mural flapped down from the lobby ceiling, which is nearly six stories high...