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Updated: June 23, 2025
The story set afloat that it is the work of an untaught Russian peasant simply testifies to ignorance of this master. Every splotch of color here breathes technique. As if by way of contrast, the opposite wall shows one of Puvis de Chavannes' classical murals, even more anaemic than usual.
They are smooth, flat, highly decorative to the wall surfaces into which they blend with rare discretion and harmony. They have a soft beauty of coloring and a classic definiteness of outline that accord well with the pure feeling of this court. Mr. Bancroft has kept two ideas consistently throughout these murals.
They can be among the least graceful of plants; but here they are really decorative. And those laurel trees at the side of the main doorway make fine ornamental notes. The sculptured vases, too, are wonderfully graceful." Above the doorways we found the three murals that gave further distinction to this court and enriched the coloring.
A memorable demonstration of the value of landscape to architecture Simplicity the foundation of Maybeck's achievement The Colonnade and Rotunda Altar, Friezes and Murals Equestrian statue of Lafayette Night views The Palace should be made permanent in Golden Gate Park The Fine Arts Exhibit Its contemporaneous character and great general merit American art well shown The foreign collections Sweden's characteristically national art Exhibits of France, Italy, Holland, Argentina, and other countries Japan and China exhibit ancient as well as modern art The Annex Work of the Futurists Notable sculptures in the Colonnade Grand Prizes, Medals of Honor and Gold Medals Awarded.
These deep purples help to bring out the splendor of those golden tones. This canvas is unquestionably one of the best of all the murals. It shows that in Mathews San Francisco has a man of remarkable talent, one of the great mural painters of the country."
And yet how interesting he is and how alive." "Some of those heads strike me as curious," I remarked. "That fellow closest to the center, just about to let his arrow fly, seems to have no head to speak of." "Sometimes he's careless with his drawing. And yet he can draw magnificently, too. He evidently had a purpose in making so many of the heads in these murals almost deformed.
The murals portrayed a world of warm sunlight, green plants, and tall trees waving in a breeze a breeze of air that now lay frozen on the stone floors of their buildings. Scene after scene they saw then they came to a great hall. Here they saw hundreds of bodies; people wrapped in heavy cloth blankets. And over the floor of the room lay little crystals of green.
It's a good example of the old-fashioned heroic sculpture, where the subjects take conventional dramatic attitudes." The ceiling of the rotunda displayed those much-discussed murals by Robert Reid. Up there they seemed like pale reflections. "You should have seen them when they were in Machinery Hall. Then they were magnificent.
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