Muralism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Muralism is a noun meaning An art movement involving murals.
Meaning
An art movement involving murals.
Example Sentences
With its pumped-up colors, a focus on everyday lives made heroic and its status as an essentially public artwork, “Departures” strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s, a movement born from the Chicano civil rights movement when Mexican-American artists like Judy Baca, David Rivas Botello and Willie Herrón adapted the Mexican muralist tradition for their own time.
Word Forms
- muralisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mural, mosaicry, musaic, marouflage, mosaiculture, mosaic.
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