Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman athletic program this year calls for three credits weekly. Starting on Monday, October 4, all Freshman will be expected either to report regularly for football, soccer, or cross country, or else to satisfy their P. T. requirements through intra-mural sports, tennis, crew, swimming, or supervised calisthenics...
Teamwork v. Originality. At 50, Charlot has behind him a career that includes Montmartre as well as Mexico City, and a 700-sq.-ft. mural at the University of Georgia...
...George Nix Gallery (including museum buyers from as far away as Washington, D.C. and San Diego), while Chariot himself expatiated on art in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center School (which he directs) and put the finishing touches on his latest critical work-a history of Mexican mural painting...
They saw no skeletons, wicked priests, musclebound heroes, firing squads or snarling prostitutes-none of the familiar Orozco trademarks. The mural looked more like a blueprint for a distillery than social propaganda. Orozco had gone abstract with a vengeance, using red streaks and dashes to represent strife, black for death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into...
...Orozco had been mighty particular about the materials for this picture, brazenly borrowing his method from the men he had once criticized. Mixed with ethyl silicate (a chemical binder used in making industrial plaster molds), his paints were more durable than car enamel. Rain splashed down on the mural every day last week, but failed to wash anything away...