Word: muralists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muralist Woeltz took the criticism in good part, corrected the mistakes as best he could. But one oldtimer remained unsatisfied, remarked, "Them cattle is mighty clean." Said Woeltz: "It has just come a rain...
Last week the novelty was being tried at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The painter was famed Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. But in this case the mutual enjoyment was not a neat 50-50. The painter apparently did not like all those people looking over his shoulder...
...show's star performer, famed Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, perched in a rooftop studio, last week went to work on sketches for his big fresco (22 ft. ½ in. by 44 ft. 3 in.) at the north end of the Fine Arts Palace. Commissioned for the new San Francisco Junior College library, the fresco counterposes the old Mexican Indian God Quetzalcoatl against a steel stamping machine (with the same outline, even to breastlike appendage), Mexican pyramids and tropical scenery against U. S. skyscrapers, traditional Mexican serpent against conveyor belt...
...Action" (for serious fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...
...While Muralist Poor and his daughter clambered up scaffolds and laid on paint with a will, students, townspeople and teachers crowded the spacious hall to watch and comment (see cut). By last week, with Painter Poor halfway through his revelation (a huge, 15-ft. figure of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by scenes and symbols of agriculture and industry), some 15,000 visitors had come to have a look, and State collegians were beginning to think that watching a muralist was more fun than watching a mural...