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and to emphasize this I have given them importance by detaching them from their environment.

Mural painting does not serve only in a decorative capacity, but an educational one as well. By education I do not mean in a descriptive sense, portraying cinema-like the suffering or progress of humanity, but as to the plastic forms and treatments in the art of painting. Since many workers, school children, or patients in hospitals (as the case may be, depending on the type of institution)have little or no opportunity to visit museums, mural painting could and would open up new vistas to their neglected knowledge of a far too little popularized art.

Rimbaud has epitomized for me the true function of the artist when he wrote: "The poet should define the quantity of the unknown which awakes in his time, in the universal soul. He should give more than the formula of his thought, than the annotation of his march toward progress. The enormous becoming the normal, when absorbed by everyone, he would really be a multiplication of progress."