Mural

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

Digital Protection and Restoration of Dunhuang Mural

Abstract: In this paper, we propose serials of technologies for mural protection and restoration, and describe the architecture and mechanism of the corresponding systems. We first propose the intelligent computer aided mural copy technology and color evolvement technology based on color harmonization. Then we introduce the computer aided mural copy system and computer aided mural protection and restoration system. Finally, we demonstrate our opinion of the future work in the relic digitization, protection, research, recovering and further application.

Mural Painting as Inclusive Art Learning Experience

Abstract: A muralist/TA gives historical, theoretical, and practical insights into the role mural painting can play in inclusive education

Visiting Dark Murals: An Ethnographic Approach to the Sustainability of Heritage

Abstract: Political, war-themed and controversial murals aim to show the history of a community, making the intangible tangible, and, because these events are still recent, they stir people’s emotions. Visitors to this type of heritage have a mixture of artistic and dark interests that lead to what we call ‘dark mural attractions’. These political murals need a public strategy to be preserved, become better known and attract local economic development funds to make them sustainable. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how communities could build a co-narrative around murals to generate a sustainable local development. To achieve this goal, an in depth study needs to be performed to establish what kind of narrative will enable political murals to attract dark visitors and examine how communities can build a sustainable co-narrative around a dark mural. As a case study, we analyse the Battle of Cable Street mural in London, located in the non-touristic borough of Tower Hamlets, by means of an ethnographic qualitative approach based on stakeholders’ opinions, among other sources. In this case, results show that dark murals have the potential to attract visitors, but they require a public strategy for the sustainability of heritage, based on a narrative of community solidarity for educational and discovery purposes.

Exploring the Creation of Picasso's Guernica: Composition Studies, Chance, Metaphors, and Expertise

Abstract: Simonton (2007) offered evidence for his Darwinian theory of creativity—blind nonmonotonic variation and selection—based on ratings of Picasso's preliminary sketches of the components for Guernica. This comment reexamines the sketches, adding two major sources of information: (a) consideration of the changing conceptions of the composition, as well as the components, and (b) inclusion of sketches from Picasso's first vision for his mural, the Studio sketches. Such analysis supports the notion of nonmonotonic variation including backtracking. It also suggests that the final mural, although radically different in its components from the Studio sketches, drew on the composition and theme of that initial vision for the mural, but in a completely reimagined form when a chance event pulled Picasso's thinking in a new direction. This comment also describes how Picasso drew on his expertise throughout his explorations, that lack of knowledge of outcome does not diminish the role of expertise in the artist at work...