1. History and Project Ideas

2. Murals are large scale paintings that are painted directly onto buildings, walls, ceilings and other flat surfaces.

3. This is a mural depicting a hunt from the Chauvet Cave. This is a cave in Southern France that contains Ice Age Paleolithic Cave paintings. These date back 30,000-33,000 years.

4.  In the Renaissance, Michelangelo painted some very famous murals. These are frescos because they were created with pigmented wet plaster that was applied directly to a prepared surface. The murals in the Sistine Chapel in Rome are Frescos.

6.  Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper is a very famous mural. (181” x 346” or about 15’x 29’) This mural is located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy.

7.  Murals are usually commissioned, that is,a corporation, wealthy individual or government institution pays someone a large amount of money to create a mural. A muralist needs to consider the natural or architectural setting of the mural when deciding how and what to execute in the mural. Since public murals are seen by many and can become a social and cultural artifact, much thought and planning must go into each one.

8.  Many Tibetan murals are created as a part of the reflective practices of Buddhism.  During the Baroque Period in Europe, many wealthy patrons had Biblical scenes painted in their homes and palaces. Often, they had their own image painted into the scene,  Murals capture a moment in history or can tell a story  Murals can depict famous people of an area

11.  Murals in Philadelphia

15.  Rosenbaum Mural  The World at Large: The Art Rosenbaum Mural at the Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts

18. You can:  do a traditional mural using paint/crayons/chalk/colored pencils/sharpies  do a “recycled” mural using puzzle pieces, magazine pictures, old scrapbook paper, pieces of crayons, bottle caps etc.  use colored sand and glue  make a fence from popsicle sticks and attach your mural to it  make a wall using sugar cubes and paint it  Use your imagination!

20. Hint…I glued the strips down first then cut the shape

24.  Tell a Story  Be Creative  Have Fun!!!