Genesis (Lebrun)
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| Artist | Rico Federico Lebrun |
| Year | 1960 |
| Medium | Black polyvinyl acetone on gypsum plaster[1] |
| Location | Frary Dining Hall, Pomona College, Claremont |
Genesis is a mural by Italian-American painter and sculptor Rico Federico Lebrun depicting the suffering that humankind experiences in the Book of Genesis.[1] It was commissioned by Pomona College and completed in 1960.[2] It is located on the south entrance of the Frary Dining Hall.
Description and development
[edit]The mural is on the interior wall of the south entrance of Frary Dining Hall at Pomona College. The central figure is Noah sheltering a child, while being surrounded by representations of the Genesis flood, Job, Sodom and Gomorrah, Cain and Abel, and Adam and Eve.[3] Lebrun's concept was to depict "the evolution of form," and he discussed "half-borrowing and half-inventing organic fragments, skulls, sections of backbones, sections of ribcages, roots of plants, geological formations...to weld some kind of design which would put across the becoming of form."[4]
See also
[edit]Public art at Pomona College
- Dividing the Light (Pomona College skyspace) by James Turrell, 2007
- Prometheus by José Clemente Orozco, 1930
- The Spirit of Spanish Music by Burt William Johnson, 1916
References
[edit]- ^ a b Davidson, Martha (Spring 1962). "Rico Lebrun Mural at Pomona". Art Journal. 21 (3): 143–175. doi:10.2307/774410. JSTOR 774410.
- ^ Lyon, E. Wilson (1977). The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969. The Castle Press. pp. 485–487.
- ^ Sutton, Frances (29 April 2020). "Framed: 'Genesis' is the divine judgment above Frary's steps". The Student Life. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Rico Lebrun's Genesis". Benton Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
External links
[edit]- Genesis information page at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College