Mural

About: Mural is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1144 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5050 citations.

England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939

Abstract: Beyond his work as Diego Rivera's assistant in San Francisco and Detroit, little has been written about the British mural painter Viscount ‘Jack’ Hastings, creator of the Worker of the Future Upsetting the Economic Chaos of the Present at the Marx Memorial Library in London. Drawing on a range of documentary sources and discussing some hitherto unknown murals in both the US and the UK, this article will examine the development of Hastings’ work as an artist and political activist. A key theme of this article will be to explore Hastings’ role in attempts to promote mural painting and socially committed art in England through his involvement with the Artists International Association and his writings for Left Review and Architectural Review. This article will also examine the relationship between Hastings’ work and his political interests, which culminated in his abandoning his artistic career in order to serve as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

Creating room : Canadian women's mural painting and rereadings of the public and the private

Abstract: Feminist theorists have used the literal and symbolic meanings of public and private spaces as a framework for understanding the marginalization of women within social structures. Interpreting mural paintings by Canadian women as incursions into a space that is commonly seen and understood as having a limited availability allows for the explication of those works as confounding simplistic understandings of the relationships between women and space. Stringent definitions of the public necessarily cast women as victims of a system within which their experiences are, in fact, marginalized, but that also may be reread to acknowledge their contributions. Like women themselves, mural paintings hover uneasily on the boundaries of the mainstream--neither completely integrated into the art history canon, nor absolutely excluded. In addition, women have often chosen as their subjects the epic topics to which murals are customarily dedicated and which symbolize the social discourses wherein women's contributions are habitually disregarded. By choosing to participate in the construction of those discourses, women have insisted on the incorporation of their experiences. At the intersection of women/murals/public I will seek a more inclusive Canadian art history with the structure of exclusion dismantled, reexamined and reconstructed to acknowledge the contributions of women artists.

Making Mural Painting With Collaboration of Students and Labschool Elementary School Students in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract: It is an obligation as an educational community in Higher Education to carry out community service in need. We are a team of lecturers who have expertise in drawing models, shapes, illustrations, guiding students and students of Labschool Elementary School to collaborate on drawing murals, because the school environment does not yet have mural drawings. In contrast to the junior high school next to it that looks more beautiful. This dedication was carried out by collaborative workshops between students and students, to draw murals on the walls of Labschool Elementary School. The purpose of this service is to beautify school buildings and increase awareness of the importance of cleanliness and beauty of the environment. The benefit of this service is to train the sensitivity of students and students to care about the beauty of the environment. Keywords—collaboration, drawing murals, beautify the

Evolving Mural Defects, Dilatation, and Biomechanical Dysfunction in Angiotensin II–Induced Thoracic Aortopathies

Abstract: Thoracic aortopathy associates with extracellular matrix remodeling and altered biomechanical properties. We sought to quantify the natural history of thoracic aortopathy in a common mouse model and to correlate measures of wall remodeling such as aortic dilatation or localized mural defects with evolving microstructural composition and biomechanical properties of the wall.We combined a high-resolution multimodality imaging approach (panoramic digital image correlation and optical coherence tomography) with histopathologic examinations and biaxial mechanical testing to correlate spatially, for the first time, macroscopic mural defects and medial degeneration within the ascending aorta with local changes in aortic wall composition and mechanical properties.Findings revealed strong correlations between local decreases in elastic energy storage and increases in circumferential material stiffness with increasing proximal aortic diameter and especially mural defect size. Mural defects tended to exhibit a pronounced biomechanical dysfunction that is driven by an altered organization of collagen and elastic fibers.While aneurysmal dilatation is often observed within particular segments of the aorta, dissection and rupture initiate as highly localized mechanical failures. We show that wall composition and material properties are compromised in regions of local mural defects, which further increases the dilatation and overall structural vulnerability of the wall. Identification of therapies focused on promoting robust collagen accumulation may protect the wall from these vulnerabilities and limit the incidence of dissection and rupture.