My latest mural work Acrylic on Canvas 14'x18', completed on 10th Sep 2016.
Mural Paintings, Last year I had been
there with my family to Guruvayoor Temple, Kerala, the mural arts on the wells
of the temple inspired me to paint this type of paintings. This is a recopy of
mural paintings on the Guruvayoor temple. I have started sketching on 15-Sep-2012
and stopped on the same day after the first tone. It was kept on pending for
more than six months. A fine day morning in April 7, 2013, I thought of
completing the painting and started in the early morning 6 O’clock (Sunday). It
has taken 4 hours to complete and the last touch up is still pending. This is done by Acrylic color on canvas (35.56
cm x a5.72 cm (14 x 18)).
Kerala mural paintings are the frescos depicting mythology and legends, which are drawn on
the walls of temples and churches in South India, principally in Kerala. Ancient temples, churches and palaces in Kerala, South India, display an abounding tradition
of mural paintings mostly dating back between
the 9th to 12th centuries CE when this form of art enjoyed Royal patronage.
Some wall
paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall
(e.g., with marouflage). Whether these works can be accurately
called "murals" is a subject of some controversy in the art world,
but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.
Murals of
sorts date to Upper Paleolithic
times such as the paintings in the Chauvet Cave in Ardèche department of southern France (around 30,000 BC). Many ancient murals have
survived in Egyptian tombs (around 3150 BC), the Minoan palaces
(Middle period III of the Neopalatial period, 1700-1600 BC) and in Pompeii (around 100 BC - AD 79).
In modern
times, the term became more well-known with the Mexican "muralista" art movement (Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros,
or José Orozco).
There are many different styles and
techniques. The best-known is probably fresco, which uses water-soluble paints with a damp
lime wash, a rapid use of the resulting mixture over a large surface, and often
in parts (but with a sense of the whole). The colors lighten as they dry. The marouflage method has also been used
for millennia.
Murals today
are painted in a variety of ways, using oil or water-based media. The styles
can vary from abstract to trompe-l'œil (a French term for
"fool" or "trick the eye"). Initiated by the works of mural
artists like Graham Rust or Rainer Maria Latzke
in the 1980s, trompe-l'oeil
painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in
Europe. Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available
with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to
poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall
surface (see wallpaper, Frescography) to give the effect of
either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.
*Courtesy: Information taken from WKIPEDIA
