ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mural, mosaicry, musaic, marouflage, mosaiculture, mosaic.

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