Word: muralist
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Died. Barry Faulkner, 85, muralist, whose massive works decorate statehouses and office buildings across the country, most notably The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution in the exhibition hall of the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and Intelligence Awakening Mankind, a 79-ft. by 14-ft. mosaic in Manhattan's RCA building; in Keene...
Gaiety in Paradise. Like Puvis, La Farge became a muralist. In 1876, he was invited by the neo-Romanesque architect, H. H. Richardson, to decorate the interior of his Trinity Church in Boston with 15-ft. figures of the apostles and prophets. Such commissions, plus his close interest in the Pre-Raphaelites, led him to stained glass. He concocted his own kind of opalescent glass, more in the manner of Tiffany than of Chartres. Its milky jewel quality earned him a Legion of Honor from the French and the chance to design windows for the Harvard Chapel in London...
...into a bitter denunciation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, professing to see "a rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...Among the best known: Isamu Noguchi, Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Gaston Lachaise, Louis Bouché, Naum Gabo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and William Zorach. Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint the main fresco for the RCA Building's lobby, had his mural removed in 1933 when he inserted the face of Lenin...
...Joaquín Vaquero Turcios, 31, son of an established Madrid landscapist, is a bold muralist whose works form walls in churches, hospitals and universities across Spain, even an 8,611-sq.-ft. bulwark in an electrical plant in Grandas de Salime. His murals are close to "official" art, full of public consciousness, but when he won first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture...