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...Walter Gropius was kind enough to keep me informed of any writeups on the mural which I painted for the new Commons building. I now receive a copy of the CRIMSON in which you report of the competition for a suitable title for my mural...
...title of this mural has been of great concern to me all along. If I choose a title for a painting of mine, I do not want this title to be too definite a description or definition of the picture. The title should merely support what is visually expressed. The origin of the design which you see on the wall now and of a series of similar recent paintings was the phenomenon of plant growth in spring. The mysterious appearance of plant forms and flowers in a new green world. A process that can be registered only in time intervals...
...modern painter, the commission to paint a mural in a given space does not come too often in our time. To be given a wall in an architecturally outstanding building is almost unique, especially as in this case my painting will not be the only "piece of art", but will be in company with creations of some of the leading modernists in sculpture and painting...
...small room, the picture taking an entire wall. Thus the picture will make the room, and I could not share the opinion according to which the composition of a mural should rather go and conform with the architectural elements-- emphasis on horizontal-vertical directions and flat color areas. I want the convolution-like movement rather to be an opposite to it, to "open up" the wall, to extend the three dimensional enclosure, to break the wall...
Seasons for a Countess. A push-button affair designed to carry two people up to the countess' boudoir, the elevator did not give Gugel much elbow room. He fitted it with a continuous mural done in deep perspective, to make the contraption look "as light and airy as possible." For subject matter he took the four seasons. "This is a very commonplace idea," he wrote the palace architect, "but I think you'll find the pictures a bit unusual...