WPA-Mural-Power-Eric-Mose-1

{{en|1=Artist Eric Mose working on the mural "Power" at Samuel Gompers Industrial High School for Boys, Bronx, New York. * Information from the New York City Department of Education:POWER, 1936 ERIC MOSE FRESCO SECCO, 300 SQ. FT. 455 SOUTHERN BLVD, BRONX, NY * Brenner, Anita. "America Creates American Murals". The New York Times, April 10, 1938, (excerpt, pp. 11, 19):Look, for instance, at the fresco by Erik sic Mose in the library of the Samuel Gompers High School, a technical school for boys which is part of the public-school system. The central theme of this mural is Light. The artist of two decades ago probably would have pictured light as a Greek lady with a torch, or possibly as Prometheus. Mose, however, has combined cubism with physics. The central "figure" is a stylized abstraction of the sun, seen in design with a prism, which relates to a broad band of color that runs along the top of the mural and is broken up into brilliant stripes—the spectrum.:Beneath this field the artist has made an abstract design of the forms through which we know light and power. One recognizes spark-plugs, dynamos and such actual electrical machines as a fan. Those forms are all carried o

Date

1936-01-01

Photographer / author

Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; photographer unknown

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

3,820 × 2,986 pixels

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