Word: muralist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the last tile in the mosaic was complete, Aub unveiled his masterpiece at the elegant Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1958. Most of the Campalans paintings in the accompanying exhibition were snapped up. Said Famed Muralist David Siqueiros, thoroughly duped: "I knew Campalans well in Paris. Orozco liked him very much." A few weeks later Aub confessed his hoax. Mexicans fumed, then laughed embarrassedly...
Says Superintendent William C. Keating Jr., 39, specialty-trained in administrative psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation: "Treating psychiatric patients as individuals is like painting cameos. I'm more of a muralist and like to work with a broader brush." With only six fulltime psychiatrists among the 14 M.D.s on his staff (plus 23 clinical psychologists and others equipped to lead group therapy), Dr. Keating can use only broad-stroke methods with the 700 patients rated as good treatment prospects. Chief Psychiatrist Knut H. Houck uses a variety of tranquilizing drugs for agitated patients and psychic energizers for the depressed...