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the wall's refusal to stay quiet, brushed loud enough to outlast the building.
means A large artwork painted or applied directly onto a wall, ceiling, or other permanent surface.
from From Latin 'muralis,' meaning 'of a wall,' built on 'murus' — the wall itself. The same root stands guard in 'immure' (to wall someone in) and 'intramural' (within the walls). The painting borrowed the wall's name because it could not exist without it: no surface, no mural.
- oldest known
- Cave paintings date back over 40,000 years
- fresco trick
- Paint into wet plaster, color bonds forever
- diego rivera
- His murals got blasted off Rockefeller walls
- city law
- Some murals are legally protected from removal
- scale
- World's largest covers entire multistory buildings
for instance
woman with flower — diego rivera's 1938 mural at the san francisco stock exchange, 26 feet tall
balmy alley — mission district san francisco, continuously evolving community murals since 1970s
wet paint bristol — banksy and indy street art murals throughout bristol, england since the 1990s