Word: muralism
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...areas in which they persist, however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic art is unfamiliar to Americans. Yet the ceramics and glasswork, the architecture and mural decoration, the metalwork and (except for Mughal miniatures) the paintings that form the relics of this vast imperial culture are much less known to museumgoers than their equivalents from Japan or China...
Before, the muralists arrived, for example, the streets around the Estrada Courts housing complex were dangerous and deserted at night. Now 32 murals decorate the project and, says Resident Mary Mendoza, "it's fabulous to come out and see what beautiful paintings we have. People used to get depressed or angry and take it out on their homes. Now they take better care of them." In the Maravilla district of town, Artist David Lopez and Psychologist Sam Cepeda joined with the Arizona Gang to work on a Virgin of Guadalupe mural. After the painting was completed, gang members took...
Many of the artists follow Mexican Muralist José Clemente Orozco's dictum that a mural is not a decorative piece but a screaming public message. In East Los, the message that comes through is pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals...
...University of Southern California stopped a mural on a campus building because the artist portrayed an American flag preventing the light of education from reaching Chicano children...
Considering himself a mural painter instead of an easel painter, Benton, after completing the 18-ft. by 31-ft. mural Independence and the Opening of the West (1961) in the Truman Library, told us, "When I came out of the Navy, after the first World War, I made up my mind that I wasn't going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world-as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects-subjects with meaning-which people in general might be interested...