MURAL MANIA!

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Today was a thrill! We viewed big bold beautiful murals starting with the 8 mile long Amazon Sistine Chapel suggested by one of our group members! This ancient mural dates back 12,500 years and is such a brilliant discovery. Archaeologists, sociologists, art & cultural historians will be interpreting this masterpiece for eons. We've no idea how many people worked on the wall; as the articles say, some of the images are so high up on the rock walls it takes a drone to document it! Our group hopes this treasure can be preserved another 12,500 years and beyond.

El Sueño Original (The Original Dream) is a massive 50,000 square foot mural in Wichita, Kansas. It is the largest acrylic mural in the world by a single artist. Armando Minjarez, an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico, developed, designed & painted this colossal painting celebrating the patchwork that makes up our heartland: the immigrants, the women, the variety of peoples who, through unity, as one of his assistants said, "We are stronger." Can't wait until we can all visit and see it in real life! 

Another of our group suggested we look at surrealist Leonora Carrington. We viewed her exquisite mural, El Mundo Magico de los Mayas (The Magic World of the Mayans) from Mexico City's Museo Nacional de Antropologia. This beautiful exploration of Mayan culture & life complete with the flying feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, it's shining golds, oranges, browns, red, black images with highlights of blue & green & pink sent our imaginations soaring! 


We all gonna need MUCHCHCH bigger mansions! 



  • Introduction Slide 1 -- link --
  • Amazon Ancient Mural -- link --
  • Amazon Ancient Mural Upview -- link --
  • Amazon People Celebration -- link --
  • El Sueño Original -- link --
  • El Sueño 1 -- link --
  • El Sueño 2 -- link --
  • El Sueño 3 -- link --
  • Leonora C -- link --
  • Leonora C 2 -- link --
  • Women's Building -- link --

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  1. Madame ZenobiaDecember 23, 2020 at 6:16 PM

    Maestrapeace San Francisco Monumental Feminist Mural

    by Juana Alicia (Author), Miranda Bergman (Author), Edythe Boone (Author), Susan Cervantes (Author), Meera Desai (Author), Yvonne Littleton (Author), Irene Perez (Author), Angela Davis (Foreword)

    It is good to know the story...

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  2. Madame ZenobiaDecember 23, 2020 at 6:21 PM

    https://www.kmuw.org/post/paint-mural-horizontes-project-helps-north-wichitans-see-color-0

    Article about El Sueno (I haven't learned to put the tilde over the n).
    We all need to learn to see color and know the differences!

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