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Last February Jose Clemente Orozco, one-armed peer of Diego Rivera, signed and dated the last of his 15 great frescoes on the walls of Dartmouth's new Baker Library (TIME, Feb. 26). Then Dartmouth settled down to contemplate in awe or anger the largest fresco unit in the U.S. Keynote of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization was Mexican mythology and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, "the white Messiah of peace and understanding." To depict academic tradition in the U. S., without Quetzalcoatl, Orozco did Gods of the Modern World?robed skeletons watching an unclothed skeleton give birth...
...subjects of the Mexican painter, held his peace only out of loyalty to his alma mater. That Dartmouth did not want such reticent respect from her sons, however, became evident last June when the college published a booklet proudly describing and illustrating its new frescoes. Excerpt: "That the Orozco murals should arouse controversy was anticipated and desired. . . . Whatever may be the final judgment of time on the place of Orozco and these murals in the great tradition of art. the college generation which witnessed the creation of these frescoes had a rare and exciting privilege...
...Orozco starts off with this dictum: In every painting, as in every other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. This dictum is falsified not only by the great art of painting . . . but by all the other arts including sculpture, and, particularly, the epic from Homer to Dante, and the drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare. . . . Through these murals a New England institution has allowed a Mexican painter to satirize English-speaking traditions, spiritual, educational and academic, while forcing on the college the extremely tiresome traditions of an alien and somewhat abhorred civilization of the Toltec-Aztec...
...recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most original styles in all sculpture." He advises Jose Clemente Orozco to return to Mexico if he wants to preserve the representative sun and shadow of his native land...
...Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...