Abstract

Art

Grosser, Maurice | September 1, 1956 issue

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A good mural painting in the past has always been a large picture of the things the painter liked to paint, and differed from his easel pictures only in size, visibility at a distance and scale. Large pictures in the representational style, painted of something which was of personal interest to the painter, are rare and probably expensive. With these impersonal generalizations as subject matter the painter finds himself doing a form of commercial art. He is illustrating ideas which he has reason to believe are approved of by his client.

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