Word: muralist
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...executive producer John Leguizamo was going to star until he became squeamish about Pinero's enthusiasm for teenage boys. Bratt was tapped as a replacement after the producers caught his performance as a streetwise muralist in the barely released 1997 drama Follow Me Home. "When you look at Miguel's eyes and you look at Ben's eyes," says Ichaso, "there's something enchanting and devilish." The son of a Peruvian mother and a Caucasian father, Bratt says he was drawn to Pinero's "sense of marginalization. He wrote about the most raw, gritty, ugly things that exist in society...
DIED. JOHN BIGGERS, 76, muralist who depicted African-American life; in Houston. In 1950, Biggers' work won first prize at an annual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, but because blacks were permitted to visit the museum only on Thursdays, he could not attend the opening...
...Told alongside all of this energetic hoopla is the story of Nelson Rockefeller (John Cusack) and his patronage of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (Ruben Blades), providing another example of the complex problems that can result when artistic statement is bound to a controlling force. Young Rockefeller didn't count on Rivera painting Lenin and syphilis cells in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, so he orders the mural jackhammered off of the wall in a strikingly literal expression of the casual tyranny of commerce. Yet perhaps the most poignant thread of the film is its only fictional tale, that...
...member of the Surrealist group, but in the 1920s and '30s he produced some of the scariest distortions of the human body and the most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some of the Mexican work of Diego Rivera...
...served as a photo-muralist for the Department of the Interior...