Word: muralism
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...best in intra-mural basketball goes on view tonight at the I.A.B. when the Athletic Association presents its first annual All-Star evening. No admission will be charged...
Last week a Paris gallery proudly displayed three mural-sized Buffets representing the Flagellation, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. Each was spare as an Egyptian frieze, ominous as a nightmare. Haggard men in black swimming trunks and bony women in black dresses posed stiffly and grimly against dirty white skies. The resurrected Christ hung desperate above his tomb, his winding sheet napping from his sides like bat wings. "I defy any man," wrote one enthusiastic critic, "not to feel moved almost to sickness before these works...
Even when Leonardo turned his attention to painting, the picture was often brought to nothing by his passion for tinkering. The grand mural depicting the Battle of Anghiari was completely lost because an experimental lacquer, one of Leonardo's latest notions, dissolved. The Last Supper early began to fade, partly because Leonardo chose to use an experimental tempera. Of all his paintings, only two or three, including the Mona Lisa, survive relatively unimpaired...
...years, George has seen thousands of children come & go. He lent them money and bought them presents. Often he paid for school equipment out of his own pocket, and at Christmas he would buy a paper mural of the Nativity for the cafeteria, "just because I figured it was a good thing for the kids to look...
Detroit's Institute of Arts is one of the nation's biggest and best museums. Its Italian Renaissance building (of Vermont marble) covers a city block, and holds treasures ranging from an Assyrian bas-relief to a mural by Diego Rivera. The public's favorite painting is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's big, brash The Wedding Dance...