I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you. Just follow the Linky steps below. Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere. The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.
Thanks Sami
When we visited our long time friends C&M, who now live in the very pretty town of Vila Nova da Cerveira (north of Portugal, bordering with Spain) we spotted some murals around the small town.
In Rua 25 Abril 1, (25th April Street), on the walls of the Cine-theatre, ia a 10mt high mural, painted by Juan Domingues, a Venezuelan artist, son of Portuguese immigrants. It is a tribute to the artist Henrique Silva, one of the founders of the Cerveira International Art Biennial - and portrays the "eternal master of the restless" in his youth and presently.
On the other side of the cine-theatre is an 8 meter high mural entitled "Gaps in memory", which was painted over 4 days in 2016, by Brazilian artist Elton Hipólito, portraying the master José Rodrigues (1936-2016) - a Portuguese artist known for his work in sculpture, drawing, illustration, and scenography.
The artist chose to paint using natural pigment paints, with light and dark soil collected from 2 different areas in the region, which at the same time draws attention to the problem with fires in the area.
Just down the road, another mural by the same Brazilian artist Elton Hipólito, painted in April 2019, measuring 17,50mt x 4,30mt and entitled "Women of the April revolution", portrays writers Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa - or the "3 Marias", to perpetuate freedom of expression, marking the 45th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution (25th April 1974, a military coup that overthrew the dictatorship and established a democratic regime, without a single loss of life)
