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Paintings are gaining popularity even among the younger generation. Some are popular due to their subtlety while some are popular for their usage of colors and brush strokes; however, mural painting is popular as it is different from other paintings, as it is done on a flat surface like wall, ceiling or any other surface to beautify the target.
Mural painting can neither be considered as a fine art nor as surface painting like house painting. It is proven that it is not a recent form of painting but dates back to prehistoric times. One could find them on the caves of Lascaux, Southern France, and gained popularity from an art movement, muralista started in Mexico.
Fresco is the popular form of mural painting, with various styles ranging from abstract to the ones that can trick a person who just throws a glance on the painting. In fresco, a person usually uses a paint that is soluble in water along with a damp lime wash.
He would normally apply in parts, however, without losing the theme or the design as he completes it later, immediately. Using mural paintings, people raised concern causing issues like conservation of nature, social issues of women, poor and labor oppression, and many other progressive issues depicting the flourishing businesses of the US. Mexican government sponsored the public mural painters in 1920s and 1930s.
Mural proves that art can record the event, time, and place, and is the pioneer of the paintings to bring art to even the poor, who otherwise would not have the opportunity to view an art.
Mexico, New York, Philadelphia, Belfast and so on house the world famous mural paintings, which played the role of communicating between the people who are some way oppressed during the conflicts, Murals and politics are somehow interlinked.
One of the unique murals is Bardia Mural, created by John Fredrick Brill on the first day of the First Battle of El Alamein, in 1942, on prison's wall. With the progress in technology, the mural painting has been altered to poster paper and is used for pasting on the wall surface. |
