Word: muralled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eked out four years of vie de Bohème on $750, a handout of the late Otto H. Kahn. Artist Woodruff returned to the U.S. in 1931 to take his post as art instructor at Atlanta, has remained there ever since. In 1936 he spent a summer studying mural painting in Mexico with Diego Rivera...
What Is a Mural? If Painter Curry had really succeeded in painting a good mural, his accomplishment had been great indeed. Generally speaking, a mural, once painted, is there to stay, to be looked at by people for a long time. It must be worth looking at for many generations and understandable to many people, not just...
With the close of the Renaissance, mural painting went into a decline from which it has only recently showed signs of recovery. Artists, like other people, tended to be individualists and paint for small groups rather than for society as a whole...
Renaissance II? Today, with individualism lost on the battlefields and society groping through crisis after crisis for a new set of values in which it can believe, mural painting, celebrating great ideals like freedom, equality, progress and national dignity, has certainly revived. Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco found a true mural subject in Mexico's groping and frustrated but passionate revolution...
When Missouri commissioned a mural for its State Capitol, Tom Benton moved his family to Kansas City, and the Saturday nights ended. But within three years they were going strong again. This time the nucleus was a group of Kansas City Symphony players. Musicians began arranging folk tunes and composing original pieces for Old Tom, young T. P. (who now played the flute) and their fellow musicians...