Word: muralist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, the celebrations at Harvard have included films, speeches and presentations by a U.S. representative, Hispanic leaders, a professor from the Graduate School of Education, an assistant professor, a Mexican-American muralist and a poet...
...event. The "Sea Monkeys Sideshow" turned the whole Carpenter Center into a piece of performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work worked--being in the spirit of creation and daring to try something new was all that mattered...
Instead one thinks of an institutionalized, not to say industrialized, sweetness: the Chagall of the blue, boneless angels, the muralist of Lincoln Center and the fresco painter of the Paris Opera, the stained-glass artist who flooded interiors from the U.N. headquarters in New York City to Reims Cathedral in France to the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem with the soothing light of benign sentiment. His quasi-religious imagery, modular and diffuse at the same time, would serve (with adjustments: drop the flying cow, put in a menorah) to commemorate nearly anything, from the Holocaust to the self...
...soon found out. A director-daredevil in the grand British line of Michael Powell and David Lean, Boorman thinks there is still an empire, of traditions if not of global power, worth challenging and defending. Let smaller-souled men paint still lifes of kitchen sinks; Boorman is a muralist, with epic ambitions and a lust for impossible risks. He has spent his movie career navigating wild rivers (Deliverance) or cutting his way through jungles (The Emerald Forest), plunging into the mythic past (Excalibur) or the hallucinatory present (Exorcist II: The Heretic). Each film is an exploration of the dark places...
...seamless forms of Brancusi. But it took a personal and artistic crisis in 1923 to push him beyond ingenious deployments of volume and line. He took off for Mexico with his lover Tina Modotti and one of his sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait of Manuel Hernandez Galvan, 1924, that use the subjects' plain vitality to confound the impassivity one expects...