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...course in materials and techniques, in which the students used to paint directly on the walls of the Fogg in the tradition of true fresco, according to Marjorie B. Cohn, curator of prints. The brainchild of former museum director Edward Forbes, it was colloquially known as the "Eggs and Plaster" course. Today, you can poke around in closets and corners of the Fogg and still find these creative student originals on the walls...
...idea of angels seems to act as a means of grace. In Los Angeles, artist Jill D'Agnenica has been scattering angels all across the neighborhoods that were ravaged by riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls, in parks, atop trash piles and in empty lots, always 10 to the square mile -- 1,000 in all so far, with 3,600 more...
...Name of the Father showcases a different kind of art. Sheridan (My Left Foot) is a bricklayer among directors; you can see the mortar between scenes. But he dares to make his hero something more, or rather less, than a plaster saint; Gerry is a scurvy thief who is guilty of every social crime but the one he's charged with. The drama here is eventually located not in the young man's battle against the Brits but in the coming to terms with his father, and thus his place in his family and his haggard country...
...Though some critics contend the process produced undesirable changes in color, the majority think it revealed the original hues used by Michelangelo in their pristine state. The Judgment, probably the world's most important example of fresco -- a technique that involves applying water-based pigments to a still wet plaster wall -- has not been seen by the public since 1990, when it was hidden behind draped scaffolding. As with the ceiling, its cleaner and brighter look, once revealed, is certain to generate debate. Says Mancinelli: "((The fresco)) wasn't painted in Tuscan color that you might associate with Michelangelo...
...standards of today, however, when admiration is only a way station on the road to being debunked, this Lincoln is still a plaster saint. Moreover, his pivotal transformations take place offstage, or at least inside his head. He jilts Mary Todd because she is too ambitious, then after two years' absence seeks her hand. It's never clear why. As for abolition, he seemingly undergoes a quasi-religious conversion on the prairie, praying aloud for a friend's dying child while the friend's loyal servant -- the one black in the 3 hr. 20 min. epic -- fetches water. But Lincoln...