Word: muralism
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...Doldrums. The Civil War in Spain settled Picasso's doldrums. Passionately Loyalist, he painted Guernica for the Spanish government building at the Paris World's Fair. The mural, done entirely in black, white and grey, symbolized the bombing of a Spanish town by German planes. Brutally ugly, it mixed classical analogies with a suggestion of crumpled newspapers and memories of the bull ring. Goya himself never painted a darker evocation of war's horror...
...despite the handicap, the freshmen have still been able to develop into a cohesive unit, though Whitney has had to work with many players who had never played in anything but intra-mural competition...
Jean Miro is commonly regarded as one of the three most distinguished artists now living, showing an extraordinary sense of humor for an artist in the non-objective field. Miro makes one of symbolism more than either of the other two artists. His latest work is a mural for the new Emery Hotel in Chicago...
...council made its recommendations to the Dean, and the following academic year saw students appointed to paying positions as House athletic secretaries and assistants, the formation of an inter-House Athletic Council, and the gathering of the whole system under a University Intra-Mural Athletic directory...
Pierced Illusion. A case in point is Koerner's June Night (see color pages'). Emerging one evening from the Kings Highway elevated station in Brooklyn, Koerner came face to face with a scene very much like the scene in the painting. The mural ad (for a photographer who specialized in wedding pictures), the poster with the sleeping baby, and even the blimp, were all there. What first struck Koerner about the bride & groom on the poster was that they reminded him of his parents. His second reaction was that they represented a gigantic "illusion" of wedded bliss, superimposed...