Word: muralled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
Whatever became of all those WPA murals? Artist Bernard Zakheim, who had painted one, found out last week what had happened to his. Visiting the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, Zakheim came upon a man busily pasting wallpaper over his mural history of medicine in California. After urging the paperhanger to desist, he bustled desperately off to find the dean of the college. Sorry, said the dean, "they are very interesting, but ... for years now faculty members have complained. The murals distract students attending lectures...
...color, an expert's taste for whiskey. Last week, the two concerns were closely connected. In a salón of the National Capitol in Bogotá, Martínez was busily slapping strong blues and rich reds on a 30-ft. expanse of wall (see cut). His mural will depict the inauguration of Liberators Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander at Rosário de Cúcuta in 1821. If he finished on time there would be a bonus: two jugs of whiskey...
Publicity-wise Diego Rivera, whose varied tastes have led him to paint Lenin in a Rockefeller Center mural and to advocate cannibalism, last week chalked up a new achievement. He took a pot shot at a Mexico City bus driver-something many a Mexican has always wanted...
Most reporters report in one dimension, achieving at best the dramatic surface of a mural or a movie. Rebecca West reports in depth-a depth whose winding recesses of character, situation and context she divines by the play of unusually acute instincts and intuitions guided by an eye for significant detail. And she floods the planes of her perception with the generous human warmth of a womanly nature and a culture-crowded brain that gives to the meanest fact a new perspective...