Word: muralists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part, Muralist Collins announced that he would continue to welcome suggestions for changes in the final painting. Said he: "I am too inexperienced to be dogmatic, and too concerned with the necessity for peace...
Your article on our muralist and human-flesh-fancier Diego Rivera is light, bright and gaudy. As entertainment-Trotsky, Paulette Goddard and canard faisande-it is superb. As a serious study on a very good painter who is never as great as you estimate him, it is lame, superficial, obvious, and in some aspects, totally false...
...there is any truth in such a story, it may be what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...
...Muralist Orozco has two arms-but only one hand. When he was 15, he lost his left hand while playing with some gunpowder. He says: "It has never been a handicap...
Rivera's fiery colleague, Muralist David Siqueiros, offered a more subtle solution. Hire a Catholic painter, he suggested, to paint a mural alongside Rivera's, with the words "God is omniscient." Nobody in Siqueiros' atheistic, revolutionary crowd would touch it, he promised. The offer went untaken...