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The Dolores Olmedo House is located in the traditional downtown of Acapulco and is noted for the murals by Diego Rivera that adorn it.
The interior of the home is covered in murals.
The home is not a museum, so only the outside murals are able to be seen by the public.
This makes them the acrylic of choice for architectural murals, outdoor signs, and many faux finishing techniques.
Orgosolo was famous for its bandits and kidnappers and typical murals.
In 2011 two murals depicting Chaplin on two 14-storey buildings were also unveiled in Vevey.
The preferred media for Chicano art are murals and graphic arts.
San Diego's Chicano Park, home to the largest collection of murals in the world, was created as an outgrowth of the city's political movement by Chicanos.
Known for his murals at the Harlem Hospital and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building.
He created murals for the Harlem Hospital, Golden State Mutual, American Museum of Natural History, Public School 154, the Bronx Family and Criminal Court and the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York.
At this time he was awarded WPA Project Number 1262 – an opportunity to oversee a group of artists creating murals and to supervise their painting for the Harlem Hospital.
When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.
All of the murals sketches submitted were accepted by the FAP, however, four were denied creation by the hospital superintendent Lawrence T. Dermody and commissioner of hospitals S. S. Goldwater due to the excessive amount of African-American representation in the works.
The artists fought the response through letter writing and four years later succeeded in gaining the right to complete the murals.
Alston's murals were hung in the Women's Pavilion of the hospital over uncapped radiators which caused the paintings to deteriorate from the steam.
After Alston's death in 1977 a committee was formed, unable to raise funds for conservation on the original murals.
In 1991 the Municipal Art Society's Adopt-a-Mural program was launched and the Harlem Hospital murals were chosen.
In 2005 Harlem Hospital announced a $ 2 million project to conserve Alston's murals and three other pieces in the original commissioned project as part of a $ 225 million dollar hospital expansion.
Alston worked with Hale Woodruff on the murals in a large studio space in New York where they utilized ladders to reach the upper parts of the canvas.
The murals, which were unveiled in 1949, have been on display in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Headquarters.
It was requested that the murals be covered by city landmark protections by the Los Angeles Conservancy.
The state of California had declined philanthropic proposals to keep the murals in their original location and the Smithsonian withdrew their offer.

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The town has more than twelve murals completed, and will host the Conference along with Dothan, Alabama, and Blakely, Georgia.
The works, which include large sculptures, environmental structures, and murals by more than 40 artists, such as Alice Adams, Pierre Clerk, Dale Eldred, Penelope Jencks, Hans Van De Bovenkamp, Jerry Peart, and Athena Tacha, are organized into a number of walking tours.
The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world.
" Lake Placid has more than 40 murals painted on buildings throughout the town, and 98 percent of the world's caladium bulbs come from Lake Placid.
The Ely Renaissance Society has facilitated more than twenty outdoor murals and sculptures in the downtown area.
Steubenville is called the City of Murals because more than 25 murals can be found in the downtown area and Ohio's Cookie Capital.
While tourists may visit Bonampak, it is a rather difficult and distant journey from anywhere else, and the murals are much less visible than in the photographs from the 1940s.
Around the square are arranged three remarkable buildings: the town hall, built in 1568 by the Catholic Monarchs in Renaissance style, the Mayor's house, which combines Gothic and Renaissance elements in its façade, with a roof of Mudejar style and fresco murals inside, and the Chapel of Santiago, the oldest religious building in the city, built earlier than the square and not aligned with it, believed to date from the 15th century.
Reputed to have created more than 200, 000 separate works, FAP artists created posters, murals and paintings.
According to records, Wu painted over 300 murals and more than 100 scrolls.
There are more than thirty statues, murals, and tile mosaics on display in the area, as well as major architectural reproductions, such as a half-sized Giralda Tower of Seville ( the tallest building in the Plaza ).
The artists stated that the murals are intended to be " a human document " rather than a political or sectarian statement.
In 1899 Metcalf joined his friends Robert Reid and Edward Simmons in painting murals for a New York courthouse ; in this genre he was no more successful than he had been as an illustrator and portraitist.
The surface murals depict figures drinking bowls of blood, which Dr. Johansen stipulates was more of a result of rituals or simply the royalty's way of dealing with porphyric disorders, rather than any proof that whatever lies inside is a vampire.
Meanwhile, the Board worked with sculptors, painters, and others to design more than 100 statues, fountains, bronze doors, murals, plaques, and panels ( both interior and exterior ) throughout the complex.
Acknowledging that vase painters in ancient Greece were regarded as craftsmen rather than artists, Exekias is nevertheless considered by today ’ s art historians to be an accomplished artist whose work can be compared with " major " paintings ( murals and panel paintings ) of that period.
There is more to Cacaxtla than just the beautiful murals.
As with so many of the murals, the sun is a significant component ; here, it plays just beyond the horizon, with the overall warmth and seductiveness of the image suggesting the promise of an imminent sunrise rather than a sunset.
There are known more than 20 locations around India containing murals from this period, mainly natural caves and rock-cut chambers.
Small versions of the Maitreya are positioned in all four corners of the chamber and the murals on either side of the door show a more active, antic style than any to be seen in Lhasa.

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