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Mural
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01 Jan 1915
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TL;DR: In the Julia de Burgos public school's cafeteria, the wall was turned into a blank, off-white slate by a vandal in April 2018 as discussed by the authors, which symbolically encapsulated a combin...
Abstract: In April 2018, somebody painted over a mural in the Julia de Burgos public school’s cafeteria, turning the wall into a blank, off-white slate. The mural’s erasure symbolically encapsulates a combin...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors build their analysis on another work, the triptych War (1929-1932), painted in Europe, following the First World War, by the German artist Otto Dix.
Abstract: The Iraqi army entered the border town of Khoramshahr, in Iranian territory, on September 22, 1980, triggering a war that lasted for eight years The Khoramshahr mosque houses a mural painted by Nasser Palangi (born 1957) after the liberation of the city in 1982 This work is becoming the pictorial support of a pilgrimage I seek to understand—through its modes of elaboration, its contents and the echo that the painting still receives in Iran today—what this war painting shows To this end, I build my analysis on another work, the triptych War (1929–1932), painted in Europe, following the First World War, by the German artist Otto Dix
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01 Jan 2015
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TL;DR: Juanqinzhai is the most celebrated structure in the retirement complex that was built 1771-1776 within the Forbidden City, Beijing, for the Qianlong Emperor, under his direct supervision as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Juanqinzhai is the most celebrated structure in the retirement complex that was built 1771–1776 within the Forbidden City, Beijing, for the Qianlong Emperor, under his direct supervision. One half of the building comprises a group of private rooms that surround an entry court and the other half contains a two-story theater. The interior is distinguished by the fully encompassing but different decorative schemes in these two areas and by the rarity of the materials used, most notably a group of trompe l'oeil murals in tempera on silk in the style of the Qing Dynasty court painter Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766). Largely unused after 1924, the interiors suffered from the increased building porosity and lack of attention. The World Monuments Fund provided technical assistance and financial support for the conservation of Juanqinzhai in specific areas that were identified by the Palace Museum: the mural painting, the architecture as a protective enclosure, and the applied and painted interior finishe...
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