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...Siqueiros was as noted for his political acts as for his artistic achievements. In the '60s he spent four years in jail for stirring up student demonstrations, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. Siqueiros' crude, bold, bright murals of historical and revolutionary scenes were sometimes caricature, sometimes fantasy, but they were always intended to instruct. His last major work (1971), in the garden of Mexico City's Hotel de Mexico, is a 48,000-sq.-ft. mural called March of Humanity and the Earth Toward Infinite Space...
...most chivalrous act is to spare the feelings of Zap Spontini, who has painted an abstract mural...
...market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no small way, the oppressive image of the artist as a superstud that only now is coming under attack. He has even had a degree of political effect: Guernica, the mural canvas he painted in protest against the fascist ruin of Spanish democracy, is certainly the most disseminated work of political art made in this century...
...Spain through his long years of self-imposed exile against the Franco regime, donated some 1,000 works from his early years to a new Picasso Museum set up by his late secretary, Jaime Sabartés, in a palatial mansion in Barcelona. Picasso also decreed that his famed mural Guernica, which has been on temporary loan to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art since World War II, be returned to Spain when civil liberties have been restored. Last week, as Spain mourned him as its own, his countrymen expressed regret that Picasso had not ensured that more...
Matisse's still lifes were populated by his own sculptures, and he painted pictures of his own paintings. So with Nasturtiums and 'The Dance' I, 1912; the figures dancing in a ring in the background are actually one of the mural-size canvases Schuhkin commissioned from Matisse in 1909 to decorate the stairwell of his house in Moscow, the gloomy, florid Troubetzkoi Palace. Matisse's frank acceptance of art as art's subject was most prophetic...