Murals are large scale paintings that are painted directly onto
buildings, walls, ceilings and other flat surfaces.
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This is a mural depicting a hunt from the Chauvet Cave. This is
a cave in Southern France that contains Ice Age Paleolithic Cave
paintings. These date back 30,000-33,000 years.
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In the Renaissance, Michelangelo painted some very famous
murals. These are frescos because they were created with pigmented
wet plaster that was applied directly to a prepared surface. The
murals in the Sistine Chapel in Rome are Frescos.
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Leonardo Da Vincis The Last Supper is a very famous mural. (181
x 346 or about 15x 29) This mural is located in Santa Maria delle
Grazie, Milan, Italy.
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Murals are usually commissioned, that is,a corporation, wealthy
individual or government institution pays someone a large amount of
money to create a mural. A muralist needs to consider the natural
or architectural setting of the mural when deciding how and what to
execute in the mural. Since public murals are seen by many and can
become a social and cultural artifact, much thought and planning
must go into each one.
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Many Tibetan murals are created as a part of the reflective
practices of Buddhism. During the Baroque Period in Europe, many
wealthy patrons had Biblical scenes painted in their homes and
palaces. Often, they had their own image painted into the scene,
Murals capture a moment in history or can tell a story Murals can
depict famous people of an area
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Murals in Philadelphia
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Rosenbaum Mural The World at Large: The Art Rosenbaum Mural at
the Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts
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You can: do a traditional mural using
paint/crayons/chalk/colored pencils/sharpies do a recycled mural
using puzzle pieces, magazine pictures, old scrapbook paper, pieces
of crayons, bottle caps etc. use colored sand and glue make a fence
from popsicle sticks and attach your mural to it make a wall using
sugar cubes and paint it Use your imagination!
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HintI glued the strips down first then cut the shape
