Word: muralism
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Parrish's gnomes and damsels, straight out of King Arthur and tempered by romantic Pre-Raphaelite gentility, adorned the covers of Collier's, Century and Scribner's. His best-known commission (around $50,000) was a 28-ft.-long mural of Old King Cole for the merry old souls in the bar of John Jacob Astor's Hotel Knickerbocker, which can still be seen in Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. Medieval nobility was a deathless theme for Parrish; even the caption for his 1921 Jell-O ad ran: "The King and Queen might eat hereof...
...large, crude, simple vision may be vaguely familiar to those who remember Paul Muni as Juárez, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa, or Elia Kazan's Zapata, which had Judases aplenty and Marlon Brando on the same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...
Nonetheless, last week the young Hoosier was getting quite a name for himself. On the side of the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair is an Indiana "mural" made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work...
SATISH GUJRAL - Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Gujral once set off from India for Mexico to be a muralist for the masses a la Siqueiros. Having no walls on which to make his metaphors, he fragmented his murals into paintings, has been doing so since (although now he is doing a mural in ceramic for the World's Fair's Indian Pavilion). He shows his mentor's strong sense of design - and a good deal more mystery - in decorative, richly hued paintings. Through April...
DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS-New Art Center, 1193 Lexington Ave. at 81st. His huge mural left unfinished in Chapultepec Castle, Mexican Communist Siqueiros, 67, has for 31 years sat in prison serving time for "social dissolution." But the warden lets him paint, and his dancing brush creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. Through...