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.
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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
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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.
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