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


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08 Dec 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the author discusses the issue of somatic aspects of street art and discusses murals as a source of multi-sensual experience for citizens and also a medium of urban participation.
Abstract: The article covers the issue of somatic aspects of street art. The author discusses murals as a source of multi-sensual experience for citizens and also a medium of urban participation. Street art is being presented there as a sphere of dialogue between objectified and social sphere of urban life and private, embodied experience of citizens.

3 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, historical information and scientific evidences are combined to discuss Siqueiros' innovative technique -fresco on cement -and the mural's deterioration, and the deterioration of the mural is discussed in the light of these results.
Abstract: While living in Los Angeles in political exile in 1932, Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros painted Amirica Tropical. The mural, 24 meters long and five meters high, is painted on the exterior south-facing wall of the Italian Hall building on Olvera Street, part of the historic monument of El Pueblo de Los Angeles. For this mural, Siqueiros used an experimentalfresco technique in which he painted on fresh cement using an airbrush. Shortly after its execution, the mural was covered with white paint because of its controversial political message. The mural’s exposure to harsh environmental conditions, under direct sunlight and heat as well as the painting technique used, resulted in its deterioration. Since the late 1980s, the Getty Conservation Institute has been involved in a project to conserve the only surviving public mural by Siqueiros in the United States. In order to develop an appropriate conservation treatment it was necessary to understand the causes of its deterioration through the study of the original materials and the painting technique used, and the history of the mural. In this article, historical information and scientific evidences are combined to discuss Siqueiros’ innovative technique -fresco on cement - and the mural’s deterioration. Contemporary and historical sources provide information on the materials and the technique used in this mural; but give also contradictory evidences regarding the type of paint used. Scientific investigation was carried out on samples of the mural to identify the materials used to paint America Tropical. The pigments were identified using polarized light microscopy and x-ray fluorescence analysis. The identification of the binder was carried out using Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, organic elemental analysis and gas chromatography. Scientific investigation, in particular infrared analysis, seems to suggest that cellulose nitrate was the principal component of the binder. The deterioration of the mural is discussed in the light of these results.

3 citations

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Kathleen Lu1
TL;DR: In this paper, a great artist creates a mural which, bearing his name, eventually reaches the hands of a purchaser who objects to the nude figures that the creator had seen fit to incorporate into his tableau.
Abstract: A great artist creates a mural which, bearing his name, eventually reaches the hands of a purchaser who objects to the nude figures that the creator had seen fit to incorporate into his tableau. The purchaser, therefore, employs another artist to drape the figures. In a now famous decree the German Supreme Court, in 1912, held that the transferee of the mural in a case involving these facts, could not have changed it to suit his individual preferences.

3 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023132
2022287
202149
202048
201956
201851