Talk:Mural

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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)

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)

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[edit] Murals in Small Great Plains Cities

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)

[edit] Changing Northern Ireland murals

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)

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[edit] External links

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

[edit] Tile Murals

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)