MURALSWhat Are Murals???

The Cave paintings

• “Anthropologists believe that until about 40,000 years ago humans were unable to speak as we do today.”

• People living in the ancient Near East wrote symbols or pictographs and later developed the alphabets.

• Also people used cave or wall art to tell stories.

tell stories

Cave Paintings

• This painting was found in a part of the world but is anonymous and we really don’t know were people found it.

»But for more information about this picture you could go to www.arcticphoto.co.uk

Cave painting

• Anthropology seeks to understand the nature and origins of human biological unpredictability cultural variety, and social formations through systematic exploration, scientific exam and the application of theory to human populations and their artifacts, including their social configurations, past and present.

1) Where are these murals found?2) Who were the artist that created these murals?3) What materials and techniques did the artist

use to create these murals?4) What was the subject of these murals? What do

you see?5) What is the theme of these murals?6) What was the message communicated thought

these murals? Who’s perspective do they represented?

7) How are these murals relevant to the society?8) How are these murals similar or different to

those found in other cultures and time periods?

Michealangelo

• Sistine Chapel Ceiling

• Painted between 1508 and 1512

• High Renaissance

Dieago- Born Dec 8, 1886

• He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death). Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, New York City.

A little kid

Basquiat Art

• Graffetti Artist• Lived in New York

BANKSY

• British Graffetti Artist

• Anonymous ?????

• Born in 1974

• His Art has appeared in Cities around the world

Banksy

GRANT WOOD

Born Feb 12, 1891-1942

American

AMERICAN GOTHIC

• Best known for his paintings depicting American rural midwest

• Particularly a painting called American Gothic

• Painted 1930

Haring’S Art• Political• Problems in the

Wolrld• Social Comment