Word: muralists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SATISH GUJRAL - Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Gujral once set off from India for Mexico to be a muralist for the masses a la Siqueiros. Having no walls on which to make his metaphors, he fragmented his murals into paintings, has been doing so since (although now he is doing a mural in ceramic for the World's Fair's Indian Pavilion). He shows his mentor's strong sense of design - and a good deal more mystery - in decorative, richly hued paintings. Through April...
...confused with Jazz Drummer Jo Jones, 52, of Count Basic fame, who is not to be confused with "Philly Joe" Jones, 40, also a jazz drummer, and none of whom are to be confused with Muralist and TIME Cover Artist Joe Jones, who died last April...
Died. Joe Jones. 54, landscape painter and muralist, a St. Louis housepainter's son who burst on the art world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon...
...dealt with unceasing pressures for so long that a sudden letup would give him a bad case of the bureaucratic bends. But as his fun-filled, detail-packed little canvases show, this worried air conceals an indestructible sense of humor. He started his artistic life as a muralist's assistant, later became an adequate commercial artist and illustrator, then dabbled a bit in abstractionism. But he had to give it up: "It's awfully hard to get a touch of humor in an abstraction, and I can't keep going without a touch of humor...
Brooks's transition from muralist to ab stractionist was no abrupt abandonment of figure for figment. He spent three years as a U.S. Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East, earnestly carrying out official orders to paint "with the savagery of Goya, the romanticism of Delacroix, or. best of all, to follow your own inevitable star." Mustered out, the onetime commercial artist, muralist and teacher of lettering got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years, and has managed to turn the style into something important...