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Historically, the mock-heroic style was popular in 17th-century Italy, and in the post-Restoration and Augustan periods in Great Britain.The earliest example of the form is the Batrachomyomachia ascribed to Homer by the Romans and parodying his work, but believed by most modern scholars to be the work of an anonymous poet in the time of Alexander the Great.
Mehdi Ghadyanloo (born 1981 in Karaj, Iran) is an Iranian artist, painter, and muralist.Known for his gigantic trompe-l'œil-style murals in central Tehran, Ghadyanloo has become the most prolific Iranian public artist with over 100 murals across the globe in the USA, the UK, Russia and his native Iran. [1]
Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor.He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros).
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Transport and Human Endeavor is the mural created in 1930 by Edward Trumbull (1884-1968) on the ceiling of the lobby of the Chrysler Building in New York City. At the time of its debut, it was the largest painting in the world, at 78 by 100 feet (24 by 30 m). [1] The work was executed on canvas and cemented on the ceiling. [2]
The murals were discovered in 2004 during an archaeological research in the building 1 of the Chiik Naab acropolis where a big substructure was found inside constisting of a 12 metres high stepped pyramidal building completely covered by the mural paintings and whose construction is estimated to have been between the years 650 and 700 AD. [2]
It was the first major work by a Mexican muralist in the United States, [16] and helped Orozco, who was relatively unknown at the time, [17] [18] to subsequently land two other U.S. commissions, a mural room at The New School in New York City and The Epic of American Civilization at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. [19]
Wall of Respect catalyzed a larger mural movement in Chicago and across the United States. Chicago is known for the plethora of murals in cultural neighborhoods. The explosion of murals throughout Chicago is due, in part, to the creation of the Wall of Respect. By 1975 at least 200 large outdoor murals existed mostly in African American ...