2. The Beginnings of Murals
• What is a Mural?
• A mural is a painting, drawing, or art that is painted on a
wall, building, or large area
• First mural is in Chauvet Cave, 30,000 years ago in
Southern France
• These images are taken from a cave in Mexico, and are
outlines of hands
• The San Bartolo murals are the first images of
Mesoamerica
San Bartolo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SB
mural.jpg
Chauvet Cave Cave Drawings in Mexico,
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3. Murals throughout Time
Cave Drawings in Mexico, The Last Supper by Leonardo DiVincci
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ages/dec2006/bonampak.jpg o/lastsupp.jpg
The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/images/rome/sistine-chapel/last-
judgment-wga-350.jpg
4. Techniques in Making Murals
• A Fresco: paint is applied on plaster.
• Buon Fresco: pigment with water on thin, wet,
plaster
• Then dries and the plaster will pick up the pigment
A Fresco Mural
http://forum.stirpes.net/antiquity/1183-
roman-frescoes-mosaics.html
• A Secco: painting done on a dry wall
• Materials:
Sometimes mixed with beeswax, resin, eggs
16th century started to use oil paints
A Secco Mural
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/37253779
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5. Significance of Murals
• Murals can be made for many different reasons
• Aesthetics (because they look good)
• Politics (some governments would pay artists to
make specific murals)
• Religious (many churches or religious states would Social Commentary (Bansky)
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commision pieces) 2/art-of-war-banksys-revolution/banksy-21/
• Social Commentary
• What does “social commentary mean?”
• What themes can you think of that would be the
topic of a mural?
Totalitarian Murals (Hugo Chavez)
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/media/api/user/jen
offa/albumid/5535637870902921873/photoid
6. Mexican Mural Movement
• The 1930’s Mexican Mural Movement redefined
murals for the world.
• It included “los tres grandes:” Diego Rivera, José
Orozco, and David Siqueros
La Historia de México (Rivera)
• Related to a political and post-revolutionary time of http://www.danfulwiler.com/muralsaroundtheworld/i
Mexico mages/2006/Mexico%2520historical%2520mural%
2520by%2520Diego%2520Rivera.jpg
• A method to teach, as everyone (even those who
couldn’t read) could learn and understand history
The Epic of American Civilization (Orozco
Mural de David Siqueros http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/assets/mural/pa
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7. Diego Rivera
The National Palace (Diego Rivera)
http://www.the-bear-den.com/travel/Mexico2001/Diego_Rivera_2.JPG
8. Diego Rivera
Detroit Industry (Diego Rivera)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2479742693_3fa8cb97bf.jpg
9. Jose Orozco
Hidalgo (Jose Orozco)
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10. David Siqueiros
National Museum (David Siqueiros))
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/siqueiros/siqueiros30.jpg
11. Modern Murals – Street Art
• The Mexican Muralism redefined what public art can mean
• No longer was art reserved for the rich, and high class
• Murals made art for everyone, for the public, for the masses
• Was able to define a political or social movement
Various Public Art by Bansky
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_36SFFFDlygA/TI66MErCOcI/AAAAAAAAHXo/P0NKg9u4U9g/s1600/Banksy-
graffiti-1.jpg
12. Modern Murals – Street Art
Os Gemelos (de Brasil)
http://be-studios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/osgemeos.jpg
13. Modern Murals – Street Art
Shepard Fairey – Various Images
http://www.supertouchart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/shepfobammma1.jpg
14. Our Process
• Come up with a theme
• What does Vose mean to you? What do you want
the community to represent? What makes this
school special?
• Draw an image
• We will then take these images, and talk about
what we like on each one
• The rest of the class will vote on who’s mural they
like the best
• We will then take that image, scan it, and alter it
digitally
• Painting the image
• We will take that digital image, project it onto the
wall, then trace it
• We will then fill it in with colors
Bend Community Center
Cada|casa’s The Mural Project (Tymon Emch)
