Word: muralism
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...singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia as lovingly as a Victorian might press flowers in his family Bible. Married to a California beauty, he has been chosen to teach mural painting at the Royal College, where, he says, avant-garde students "already think of me as trad...
...Raoul Dufy fretted a great deal over the fate of the painting he considered a masterpiece, the gigantic mural called The Fairy Electricity. Shown at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, it was later cut up into 250 sections and stored in a musty warehouse. Despite Dufy's best efforts, no place could be found big enough to exhibit the mural permanently...
...masterpiece Dufy thought it to be? Its central focus, a dynamo rendered blueprint-style in all its 1937 grandeur, is sublimely anachronistic; its diversity makes it seem a collage of pages from a sketchbook; its pretentious setting heightens all its weaknesses. Somewhat ambiguously, the museum bills the mural as "the world's largest painting"; viewers go away feeling that they have seen the world's largest hand-painted billboard...
...women, who hear authors and editors, and learn, in the words of a girl who took the course last year, that "the purlieus of publishing contain powerful people for whom English is a vestigial appendage." Students at Syracuse University are working with Painter Kenneth Callahan on a mural for a new dormitory, are painting smaller murals of their own. Says Thomas E. Black, 27, a painting major: "Being together and talking together is a kind of rubbing-off process; he comes in here and I'm working here. I go in there, and he's working there...
...inspiring a 1960 leftist riot. But Siqueiros was anything but chastened. "My incarceration has .been but a parenthesis in my political and artistic life," said he, raising his right hand in the clenched-fist salute. And to prove it, he announced plans for the year: 1) complete a mural at Chapultepec castle, the national museum, portraying the Mexican Revolution; 2) complete another for the national theatrical artists' union, and 3) go to Havana to start work on a project dedicated to the Castro rebels who died in the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime...