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...Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions of modernism. "There is no health in introspection," he wisely says; "the cultivation of sensibility has become a blind alley." He recognizes that present interest in the Mexicans and mural painting generally has a psychological or sociological cause: "The one clear note in contemporary American painting is a new emphasis upon social and collective expression. Subject and 'human interest' have definitely been reinstated in art." His recognition of that fact leads him to give the satirists like O. Soglow and Hugo...
Some of Rubenstein's previous works are on the fourth floor of the museum where he completed two murals in 1932. In all his works is reflected his impression of the vigor of mural painting as compared with "dilettante" casel painting...
Proof that Harvard does patronize living artists is furnished in the person of Lewis William Rubenstein '30, winner of the Bacon Art Scholarship in 1930, who is now preparing a mural on the wall beside the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
Purporting to be a general view of the process of building, the mural is divided into four sections, each one of which shows a stage in architectural construction...
...writer states that the murals are morally weakening to the student body of that college. A mural, whether it is good or bad, is no more morally weakening to the beholder than is "Gulliver's Travel's" to the reader. No student will be made any more immoral than he already is by looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly...