Word: muralism
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...hour days with the aid of ten assistants, 592 sheets of aluminum base, each mounted at a 60° angle to the wall, 1,000 Ibs. of paint in 347 different colors and a whopping cost of $100,000. Whatever its physical qualifications, Agam's gargantuan mural in the new cultural center of Leverkusen, West Germany, is a landmark in kinetic painting...
Into the Street. Some 20 other muralists, with encouragement and materials supplied by the city of Boston, have splashed their pride and sometimes anger on public walls. They are not subtle, nor are they meant to be. Among the most skilled is Charles Milles' mural painted on a handball wall in Orchard Park, in the primarily black Roxbury neighborhood. It proudly depicts black aspirations in dance, theater and music-and brings a spot of color to an otherwise dismal plavground...
...rectangular ramps along the aquarium's walls, he passes the abodes of other amusing creatures: penguins. One species on display in the mock Antarctic environment is the so-called jackass penguin (named for its harsh bray). Proceeding upward, the visitor brushes past a large and almost frightening mural covered with life-size silhouettes of sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot-long skeleton...
Saved by Swamp. Oddly enough, Farmer Franco's artichokes helped preserve the 2,300-year-old frescoes from the destruction that has overtaken other Greek mural painting. The Paestum paintings were preserved because its river silted up and turned the area into a malarial swamp. For centuries, moisture seeping into the tombs from the swampy waters kept the paint from drying up and flaking off the stone walls. When the swamps were filled in 1944, the roots of the artichokes continued to keep the tombs moist...
...toned saddle shoes and talked my Heritage out of me. But I was off with my handsome argyles to the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle and Visitor Center where in this statue Adam and Eve were wearing robes while animals ran unabashed in the forest of a salacious mural right behind them and I asked our guide who had not, at the age of 43, yet befouled his body with tobacco, alcohol, tea or coffee, why I asked him do Adam and Eve have clothes on. "That's just the way the artist did it" he stammered as though artists...