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Frank Weston Benson made Murals as well as portraits, waterscapes, wildlife, landscapes and other works of art. Benson was commissioned by the Library of Congress of the United States in the 1890s; he completed murals of the Four Seasons and Three Graces for the project.
The word mural is derived from the Latin word murus, meaning wall. Walls have long provided a direct support for aesthetic, political, and social ideas expressed with paint. Cave paintings could be considered the earliest murals, followed over time by wall paintings in tombs, temples, churches, civic buildings, and a variety of outdoor spaces. [1]
The Chiik Naab murals are a group of ancient Maya mural paintings located in a substructure of building 1 at the great acropolis of Chiik Naab in the Maya city of Calakmul in southern Campeche, Mexico. The paintings show various scenes of the daily life in the Maya city that includes the consumption of food and drink such as tamales and atole ...
The American Mural Project (AMP) is a nonprofit arts center located in Winsted, Connecticut, that offers exhibits, events, and educational programs. Its central exhibit is an indoor three-dimensional mural —a tribute to American workers measuring 120 feet long and five stories high.
This mural featured four large women surrounded by an abundance of colorful fruits, animals, and exotic natural landscapes. The group chose to focus the mural around the theme of food and the concept of the Latin American marketplace. The theme felt fitting to them given that the wall mural was located on the side of a restaurant.
Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by the American artist John Steuart Curry for the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. It is located on the east side of the second floor rotunda . On the north wall it depicts the abolitionist John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Revelation 1:8 can be seen.
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 ...
The mural was conceived by the project's founder, Perry Rod, and designed by graphic designer Peter Moriarty. The painting covers an entire wall [2] of the organization's headquarters and depicts sixteen people: [3] Albert Einstein, Alan Watts, Baruch Spinoza, Terence McKenna, Carl Jung, Carl Sagan, Emily Dickinson, Nikola Tesla, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry ...