Talk:Mural/Archives/2012

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Is Guernica really a mural? It's a very large canvas, not a painting on a wall. - Montréalais 21:52, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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Six days after the bombing of Guernica PP began work on mural for the Spanish Pavillion of the International  
Exhibition in Paris held in summer of 1937. PP accepted commission from Spanish govt in January 1937 to paint 
mural (11 feet 6 in high by 25 feet 8 in long) for Spanish pavillion but no topic decided upon. Bombing in 
April provided him with topic. Painted in near monochrome (shades of grey with some purplish and bluish and 
brownish tints). Very well documented painting. 45 preliminary studies and 7 photographs of mural at various 
stages show evolution of painting."

Aecis 20:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm a storm chaser with the local university and on several occasions we've been in small towns in Nebraska/Kansas/Oklahoma and have witnessed murals on the walls of buildings of these towns, usually depicting these events. Is there a current article for something like this or would one be appreciated? --Martin Osterman 19:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Just wonder is it worth including this mural from the New Lodge, Belfast area, one of many recent murals in republican and loyalist areas of Belfast whose theme is less connected to traditional Northern Ireland politics. Don't want to go in for image overload, but think it is relevant. Gerry Lynch 01:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

As nice as many of the linked websites are, they really are not appropriate under WP:EL. That is to say, they are not symmetrically related to the article. Most are specific to cites/countries/locations. One is about making a mural. That isn't to say that the websites are good websites in their own right. Most would make decent external links on more specific articles. I encourage editors to begin migrating these links or at least discuss why they should be included. Nposs

The information on Tile Murals seems inappropriate for this page--it reads like an article out of a home-improvement magazine or even a catalog, and the illustrated example hardly seems to count as a mural at all. Really, I think tile murals are tangential to this article, which should focus on mural art in its more ordinary sense. Perhaps there's a need for a separate "tile mural" article, linked from this one, but in no case should we devote a third of this article to tile murals.

Do others of you agree?

65.213.77.129 (talk) 20:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

No objections were voiced in eight months, so I deleted it. If the person who wrote it feels like re-inserting a much shorter section on tile murals, ideally with a more encyclopedic tone, that might be OK. 65.213.77.129 (talk) 19:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree with your objections. It should be split off into it's own article and tagged as unreferenced-- right now it reads like some sort of odd spam. The example makes me cringe, and isn't the definition of a mural a painting on a wall? The reproduction of the Michelangelo is framed... Lithoderm (talk) 01:32, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, but the section is still there! I've never split an article before...maybe I will wait for someone more qualified... --RhoOphuichi (talk) 22:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Removed advertisement section and added information about "real" tile murals. --Toontje (talk) 02:53, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

What materials should one use to paint (free-hand, not stencil) a mural on an interior bedroom wall? Thank you. BriEnBest (talk) 06:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC) I think you should use to acrylic water based paint. I am a profi mural painter, upper 15 years painted and this is the best medium for free-hand and airbrush painted murals, can see the effect on my website http://murals.pl — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.42.84.194 (talk) 02:05, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Made big changes to the section on Murals and Politics. There was a large section on a "mural" show that is traveling around the Americas - deleted that. Removed an image of a mural from Columbia; I feel that 3 images was too many for the small section, and Diego Rivera is the most famous Latino muralist. The other image, of an Irish mural, provides a more complete picture (no pun intended) of the subject. Removed a sentence from the very beginning of the section about non-violent content in murals. It didn't clearly relate to anything in the section; it referred to specific murals without saying which murals; and it's not true that political murals are typically non-violent in general. So rather than try to edit it into coherence, I deleted it.

ADDED a paragraph on the importance of Mexican muralism in politics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RhoOphuichi (talk • contribs) 22:55, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

What does that mean actually?? The murals under this paragraph seem to me like every other original mural and should be included in the other sections.--Misterneu (talk) 17:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

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that a fair number of murals are painted on canvas and then tacked onto a wall. This is not really expressed in the opening sentences and probably should be there, or.... somewhere. But in an article such as this I'd rather talk first, then slash and burn. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 15:10, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

You are right. Go ahead and add the information. JohnMorra (talk) 08:22, 8 November 2012 (UTC)