History, Styles, Techniques, Street Graffiti,

And Planning of a Mural

The Mural Project

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

Chauvet Cave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Chauvet_Cave)

Cave Drawings in Mexico,Tymon Emch

San Bartolohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

File:SBmural.jpg

Murals throughout Time

The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelohttp://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/images/rome/sistine-chapel/last-

judgment-wga-350.jpg

Cave Drawings in Mexico,http://www.xispas.com/blog/

images/dec2006/bonampak.jpg

The Last Supper by Leonardo DiVinccihttp://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/

leonardo/lastsupp.jpg

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 Muralhttp://forum.stirpes.net/antiquity/1183-

roman-frescoes-mosaics.html

• A Secco: painting done on a dry wall• Materials:

Sometimes mixed with beeswax, resin, eggs16th century started to use oil paints

A Secco Muralhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/

3510/3725377994_e6dde50864.jpg

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 commision pieces)

• Social Commentary

• What does “social commentary mean?”

• What themes can you think of that would be the topic of a mural?

Social Commentary (Bansky)http://solehiphop.wordpress.com/

2008/10/02/art-of-war-banksys-revolution/banksy-21/

Totalitarian Murals (Hugo Chavez)http://picasaweb.google.com/data/media/api/user/jenoffa/albumid/5535637870902921873/photoid

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

• Related to a political and post-revolutionary time of Mexico

• A method to teach, as everyone (even those who couldn’t read) could learn and understand history

La Historia de México (Rivera)http://www.danfulwiler.com/muralsaroundtheworld/images/2006/Mexico%2520historical%2520mural

%2520by%2520Diego%2520Rivera.jpg

The Epic of American Civilization (Orozcohttp://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/assets/mural/

panel16.gifMural de David Siqueros

http://gustavorojo.com/blog/images/Siqueiros3.jpg

Diego Rivera

The National Palace (Diego Rivera)http://www.the-bear-den.com/travel/Mexico2001/Diego_Rivera_2.JPG

Diego Rivera

Detroit Industry (Diego Rivera)http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2479742693_3fa8cb97bf.jpg

Jose Orozco

Hidalgo (Jose Orozco)http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1566/X1006/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1566-0144188.jpg

David Siqueiros

National Museum (David Siqueiros))http://www.abcgallery.com/S/siqueiros/siqueiros30.jpg

Modern Murals – Street Art

Various Public Art by Banskyhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_36SFFFDlygA/TI66MErCOcI/AAAAAAAAHXo/P0NKg9u4U9g/s1600/Banksy-

graffiti-1.jpg

• 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

Modern Murals – Street Art

Os Gemelos (de Brasil)http://be-studios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/osgemeos.jpg

Modern Murals – Street Art

Shepard Fairey – Various Imageshttp://www.supertouchart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/shepfobammma1.jpg

Our Process

Bend Community CenterCada|casa’s The Mural Project (Tymon Emch)

• 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

Other Murals

http://www.pingkhaw.com/pingkhaw-WashingtonMural.html

Other Murals