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Mural Painting Exam

Mural Painting Exam. HS Mural Painting. Where are the oldest wall paintings in the world? How old are they?. Where are the oldest wall paintings that we know about?. The oldest cave paintings are on the walls of Chauvet cave in France and are approximately 32,000 years old.

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Mural Painting Exam

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  1. Mural Painting Exam HS Mural Painting

  2. Where are the oldest wall paintings in the world? How old are they? • Where are the oldest wall paintings that we know about?

  3. The oldest cave paintings are on the walls of Chauvet cave in France and are approximately 32,000 years old

  4. Where in the ancient world can we find mural paintings? What were they used for?

  5. Murals held an important place in Greek, Roman and Egyptian art. Egyptian tombs dating from around 3150 B.C. often contained wall art depicting gods, goddesses and royalty. Religious murals have also been found in China and India.

  6. Greek Mural Painting • The Bull-Leaping Toreador Fresco was painted at the palace at Knosses in 1450-1400 BC. • Height of mural is 81 cm.

  7. The Ajanta Caves in India • Made on volcanic rock, Buddhist monks painted the life of Buddha and His Teachings, in the 2nd century BCE. • There are 29 caves, and most of the caves have paintings everywhere but the floor. • A UNESCO World Heritage site.

  8. Yen-Huang • Murals also were painted in Central Asia and China, notably the Buddhist cave temples of Ten-huang in Kansu (4th–10th centuries). • Chinese mural painting in tempera on palaces and tombs dates from about 1700 B.C. Figures, usually from the Buddhist pantheon, are depicted in flat color wash and strong calligraphic line.

  9. Horyuji • Chinese styles influenced murals in Korean tombs and Japanese temples, especially the 18th-century Horyuji in Nara.

  10. What is buon fresco? A painting done in wet plaster.

  11. The Sistine Chapel • It was about 465 square meters of murals. • Michelangelo did almost all of the murals himself. He had helpers mixing the plaster, and paint and carrying it up onto the scaffolding. • He considered himself a sculptor and did not know how to do frescos before he started. He did the most difficult method, buon fresco. • It took him a bit over four years, from July of 1508 to October of 1512.

  12. “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci • Leonardo da Vinci was asked by the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, to paint this fresco in the dining hall of the convent Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Leonardo worked for the Duke for 18 years. • The mural is 460 x 880 cm. • It took Leonardo about 3 years to complete, between 1495-98. • This mural is important because the humans have real emotions, and it is uses one point perspective, where every element points to the center, Christ’s head.

  13. “Guernica” by Picasso • In 1937, Picasso, after hearing about the massacre on behalf of Franco, and Hitler of a small Basque village and seeing the photographs, begins to make his mural which was displayed at the 1937 World’s Fair. • Modern art’s most powerful anti-war statement. • It took him about 3 months to complete. • He made several sketches. • The mural was put up in Spain, in 1981.

  14. “Man in Control of the Universe” by Diego Riviera • Originally this mural was supposed to be painted in the United States, and commissioned by Rockefeller. However, because the man in the center was Lenin, the mural was removed and Riviera painted the mural in Mexico in 1934. • Part of the Mexican Communist Party, he was well-known for his controversial paintings, which showed the life of the everyday man, and questioned capitalism, and the elite. • He was married to Frida Kahlo from 1929 to 1954.

  15. “Sacco and Vanzetti” by Ben Shahn • The court case took seven years, and shows the inability of the American justice system to make fair choices. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in 1927. • Ben Shahn, along with many other artists, responded. His mural at Syracuse University was dedicated on October 10, 1967.

  16. Dandelion School (with Lily Yeh) The Dandelion School Transformation Project, Beijing, China (2007 – Present) At the end of the project, Zheng Hong, the school principal, summed up her experience: “This project has opened the minds and hearts of teachers, students and myself at the Dandelion School. It raises the basic question about education, its purpose, content, and method. I feel that through creativity and action, this project aims not only to transform the school environment, but also the minds and hearts of all participants. Real education should be about the cultivation of the whole person, mind, body and heart.”

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