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Updated: June 23, 2025
The careful details of the palaces and courts the minute finishing of cornice, column, frieze and vault, the loving modeling of sculpture, the artistic planning of vistas, the inspired brushing of murals are marvelous beyond my telling. It is an outpouring of the arts before the altar of humanity. It is a presage of what men can do when they unite in common service.
"The Inspiration in All Art" revealed the figures of Music, Architecture, Painting, Poetry and Sculpture. Four other panels glorified the four golds of California, gold, wheat, poppies and oranges, a happy idea, providing opportunities for the splendid use of color. "It's a pity those murals couldn't have been tried out up there and then taken down and done over," said the architect.
Tony, I want you to do the voice for it running commentary, interpretation of each scene as it's shown. Would you do that?" Would he do that! Martha thought. If he had a tail, he'd be wagging it at the very thought. "Well, there ought to be more murals on the other floors," she said. "Who wants to come downstairs with us?" Sachiko did; immediately. Ivan Fitzgerald volunteered.
"Those murals suggest what a big chance our decorators have in the themes that come out of our industrial life. They've only made a start. As mural decoration advances in this country, we ought to produce men able to deal in a vigorous and imaginative way with the big spiritual and economic conceptions that are associated with our new ideals of industry."
Springtime shows her first blossoms, and the happy shepherd pipes a seasonal air to his flock, now battening on new grass. In the companion picture, Seedtime, are symbols of the spring planting. Next comes Summer, the time of Fruition. This is less likable than the other groups. The posture of the mother is not a happy one. The two murals picture Summer and Fruition.
Then it lived before him and he made the murals live. His work shows that he begins in the right place, unlike so many people who paint from outside. He feels the qualities of the people he is going to paint. He really loves them. He loves their surroundings. He must be very elemental in his nature. They say he is a great, uncouth sort of a fellow.
The murals at the Exposition are rather unusual in their settings, where every building and every court is so replete with Mr. Guerin's splendid coloring. Mr. Brangwyn's decorations are by far the most interesting in their free joyous use of color and amusing composition.
In color, from the dull soft gold of the columns of the colonnades on either wing, through the vivid hues of Dodge's allegorical murals under the arch, and the golden orange and deep cerulean blue in the vaulted recesses, up to the striking green of columns on the upper rounds of the Tower, the structure summarizes all the pigments which the master of color, Guerin, has laid upon the Exposition.
It was true that the early Italians had done murals for the open air, but no examples had been preserved. That the painters were able to do as well as they did under the limitations reflected credit on their adaptability and good humor. The truth was they felt the tremendous opportunity afforded their art by this Exposition.
Changing reflections all along colonnade, and from rotunda. Rotunda, on nights when relief illumination is used, lights on capitals of Corinthian columns; deep color effects in murals on dome. View of palace from south across lagoon, with flood lights on rotunda and colonnade. Avenue of Palms
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