Word: muralled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called Dive Bomber and Tank the mural was a starkly symbolic study of war's destructiveness, done in eleven colors ranging from lime white to vine black with four shades of red, which suggested explosions, storm clouds, dried blood. It had no political significance, said Orozco...
Rivera gets excited in discussing his mural. It is meant to demonstrate his theory of Pan-Americanism. "American art," he declares, "has to be the result of a conjunction between the creative power of mechanism of the North and the creative power of the South coming from traditional, deep-rooted Southern Indian forms. It is interesting that the two inventions which most aided the U. S. industrial revolution, the telegraph and steamship, were perfected by two artists, highly important in their day, Morse and Fulton. Thus the artists led off the industrial revolution and now that the revolution has reached...
...mural to do for the Golden Gate Exposition...
Unlike strip-teasers, painters usually do their work in private. But when Pennsylvania State College, last autumn, offered Painter Henry Varnum Poor $4,500 to paint a huge mural on a wall in its Old Main Building, it stipulated that Poor's working hours should be open to the public...
...Poor halfway through his revelation (a huge, 15-ft. figure of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by scenes and symbols of agriculture and industry), some 15,000 visitors had come to have a look, and State collegians were beginning to think that watching a muralist was more fun than watching a mural...