Word: muralism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...word masterpiece?exiled for the crime of elitism over the past decade?must now be reinstated. It is the largest exhibition of one artist's work that MOMA has ever held, or probably ever will. It contains pieces ranging in size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, string, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard...
Picasso's climactic work of the '30s was Guernica, 1937. In its way it is a classicizing painting, not only in its friezelike effect, but also in its details. The only modern image in it is a light bulb; but for its presence, the mural would scarcely seem to belong in the world of Heinkel bombers and incendiary bombs. Yet its black, white and gray palette also suggests the documentary photo, while the texture of strokes on the horse's body is more like collaged newsprint than hair...
...also sponsors artists in residence and commissions for mural-painting, neighborhood workshops, exhibits, and performances. The Permanent Art Program includes the Arts on the Line project which incorporates artwork of all kinds into the Red Line extension, and "parklet" art, such as the Michio Ihara wind sculpture in Central Square and a chime fence to be installed in front of City Hall later this month...
...Ciudad Deportiva, Havana's Boston Garden, two reminders that sport and politics are not separate in Cuba stick out. One, a ghostly mural of Che, grossly out of place in a sports arena. The other is a Maoesque dictum on the wall: SPORTS IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE--Fidel...
IMAGINE walking into a subway station to the tune of a chiming windmill, descending an escalator plastered with rumpled bronze gloves, and waiting for the train while staring at a mural of life-sized cows...