Murual painting

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.

Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall . 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

A mural is a painted depiction created on a wall or ceiling. The earliest art murals were cave paintings. Wall paintings have been used to aid understanding for illiterate people. Depictions were painted on the walls of churches and engraved into stone or wood outside buildings. This tradition is still practiced today. Wall paintings have also been used to rally or inspire people in troubled times. In Mexico, paintings such aslos tres grandes, orthe three great ones, portray strong, industrious people to give everyone hope and to bring the populace together. Tempera has been practiced for millennia. For this type of painting colors are ground and mixed with egg yolk or egg white diluted with water. During the classical Greco-Roman times, encaustic  was common. Encaustic painting uses colors that are ground into beeswax or resin and applied hot. Oil paint and canvas were used in sixteenth-century Europe. It was practical for the artists to paint the murals in their studios and then transport them to the final destination, but the paintings lost some of the luster associated with other mediums. The Romans of Ostia and Pompeii painted unified scenes on almost every wall and ceiling, public and private. The European Renaissance was the height of art murals. Florence saw works by such masters as , Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca, and Melozzo da Forli.

 All of these artists were obsessed with achieving depictions of the perfect form. The Luca Signorelli chapel shows many frescoes portraying nude figures. The second tradition, or Gothic tradition, of mural art was a conservative style of mystic expression. A third tradition was a style of realistic but romantic frescoes. In all traditions, the artists sought to correct any deficiencies in the artistic process. The High Renaissance brought artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Correggio. The seventeenth century introduced the Baroque style. The Baroque frescoes exhibited movement with perspective and shortened figures, 

Blending with the structures where they were painted. The paintings of this time were interpreted by the Carracci at Bologna, or the Italian Academy, and the French Academy. The Baroque style is found from Annibale Carracci’s Palazzo Farnese in Rome to the ceiling and wall frescoes of Domenichino, Andrea Pozzo, and Peitro da Cortona. Peter Paul Rubens was the most significant muralist of the Baroque period. In the twentieth century, mural art became strong again with easel painting, like that of Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miro. Mexican artists, such as Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, made amazing strides that developed from the revolutionary movement. US federal sponsorship paved the way for such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn, and John Steuart Curry to express political and social