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  • noun An art movement involving murals.

Etymologies

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mural +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • The staff also teaches muralism classes at local high schools when they are not managing the park.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • The staff also teaches muralism classes at local high schools when they are not managing the park.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • WriterzBlok holds training workshops in graphic arts and mural design, where budding graphic art participants master the basics of computer art and translating hand sketches into computer images and muralism students learn new techniques in aerosol art and design.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • The staff also teaches muralism classes at local high schools when they are not managing the park.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • WriterzBlok holds training workshops in graphic arts and mural design, where budding graphic art participants master the basics of computer art and translating hand sketches into computer images and muralism students learn new techniques in aerosol art and design.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • WriterzBlok holds training workshops in graphic arts and mural design, where budding graphic art participants master the basics of computer art and translating hand sketches into computer images and muralism students learn new techniques in aerosol art and design.

    John M. Eger: Graffiti Parks May Be the Answer John M. Eger 2011

  • Gerardo Murillo, better known by his self-selected pseudonym Dr. Atl, became the forerunner of modern Mexican muralism.

    Did You Know? Artists in Mexico with disabilities 2008

  • Christine was originally known in the community as an "activist artist," making explicitly political work in printmaking and painting/muralism.

    APAture Live 2008

  • It is especially fitting that the city house so much fine mural art, not just because the city was christened the "Florence of Mexico" by Edward Gibbon, the distinguished English historian, but also because Guadalajara was the birthplace of Gerardo Murillo, better known by his pseudonym Dr. Atl, considered by art historians the founder of modern Mexican muralism.

    Murals come to life in the Florence of Mexico: Guadalajara 2008

  • The most famous of the three, José Clemente Orozco, born in 1883, became a great muralist, one of the "Big Three" of modern Mexican muralism, together with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

    Did You Know? Artists in Mexico with disabilities 2008

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