Word: muralitis
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...British graffiti artist Banksy is popular with celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera, some regard the artist's street works to be vandalism, pure and simple. On Oct. 23, the Council of Westminster in London ordered the removal of a 23 ft (7 m) Banksy mural - reportedly his largest work in central London - claiming that it encourages graffiti...
...move to the director's chair would pick a modest project, one that doesn't tax his tyro status. But Kaufman's first work as a total auteur is his most daunting project yet: a portrait of a creative mind in artistic and emotional crisis, painted as a vast mural that encompasses 30-plus years, slips from mundane reality into nightmare fantasy, and is set (not counting side trips to Germany) in two New York State river cities 150 miles apart...
...deftly recycle the stuff of his own life story. Born in Glasgow's East End in 1934, Gray was always as at home with words and pictures as he was set apart from society by his lifelong asthma and eczema. At Glasgow's School of Art, he specialized in mural-painting before graduating to a life of persistent penury with a four-year, wage-free commission to paint The Seven Days of Creation on the ceiling and walls of a local church. Almost no one saw it before the building was razed...
...base: Ortega, dressed in pastels in order to channel positive energy, delivers a meandering speech on the danger of devils and the love of Christ and of Sandino, while sitting in front of psychedelic painting of an eyeball in the center of a hand surrounded by snakes - a colorful mural painted by Murillo behind Ortega's chair in Sandinista headquarters, to protect him from evil...
McCain’s a portrait…Obama’s a mural...