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...restaurant and next door to a cheap cinema? for the opening of the high holy day, Rosh Hashana (Sept. 25). Already in place on two walls of the Synagog were ten large murals depicting the Ten Commandments. They were painted in true fresco by A. (for Alexander) Raymond Katz, 40, a Hungarian-born Jew who leads a Jewish art movement in the U. S. with the Hebrew alphabet as its central motif...
...licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon...
Last week the Los Angeles school board was in a noteworthy dither of excitement over a mural which could be seen by anyone who cared to peek under a cheesecloth curtain in the entrance hall of the Frank Wiggins Trade School. The painting is the work of Leo Katz, a Viennese artist originally brought to the U. S. by Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip to paint the Vanderlip family. Artist Katz started the mural as a PWA project, finished it on his own time, working nights, Saturdays, Sundays. Like Rivera and Orozco, he drew his inspiration from Mexico but he avoided...
Promptly Artist Katz retorted: "I would sooner risk my reputation as an honest artist than change that mural. The young generation demands facts and asks the artist not to flatter but to tell of life as it is. In that mural I expressed an ideal honestly and with all the powers of my background and training, and without any frivolity or monkey business...
...KATZ...