Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs and artillery blasted his Madrid studio to rubble. His prodigious monument to the leader of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias (an eleven-panel mural containing 140 life-size figures), was destroyed. But the Fascists could never touch Luis Quintanilla the artist.* His drypoints, safely scattered in museums all over the world, continued to speak with the social force-if not the human weight -of Goya's best...
...most recent picture in the Institute's show is dated 1933, antedating the great anti-Fascist mural, "Guernica" by four years, so there is little revelation here of Picasso's more recent work, and there are also no paintings from the celebrated "blue period." From the "pink period" is a beautifully-composed gouache, "The Bathers," and from the "classical period," "The Sigh...
...most boring group in all communities were the university professors-and their wives." American mural paintings were "even below the esthetic level of the Arrow collar artist." The work of 1941's successful applicants for Guggenheim Fellowships included: "The recording, translating and annotating of the Hudhud, a series of epics chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants...
...three, Diego Rivera, now 58, contributed a modest, cleverly patterned water color entitled Indian Mother and Children. Last year he climbed down from his mural scaffoldings to paint sexy nudes for Mexico City's swank nightclub, Giro's. Now he is doing a vast historical mural for Mexico's National Palace. Siqueiros, in the most traditionally political painting displayed, showed a mountainous Indian girl clasping a field of oil wells to her bosom. Patriotically entitled Sunrise of Mexico, it has already been snapped up by International Business Machines Corp...
Died. Newell Converse Wyeth, 62, onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...