BS: Town Murals

Subject: BS: Town Murals
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 01:12 PM

A friend sent me a link to a multi-faceted mosaic mural in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. It is huge and has many panels done by different artists. You click on one panel and it turns out to belong to a different painting, for instance, when you click on a horse nostril it turns out to be the curve of a different horse's neck.

Peace, where is Cochrane in relation to Hinton? Have you ever seen the mural?

See Here

Does your town have an unusual wall? In Juneau, Alaska, there are several buildings that depict wildlife scenes. A bakery has humpback whales, a school has an eagle, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Emma B
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 01:22 PM

That's amazing Ebbie - I loved the horses eye too.

You really wouldn't want to see the often violent sectarian ones still dominating parts of Belfast!

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 01:29 PM

That's great, thanks! Duly forwarded to the Albertans in the family.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 01:29 PM

Fascinating andI personally like the following art sites which are also quite amazing...such talent......
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm


http://www.kurtwenner.com/streetportfolio.htm

Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 01:40 PM

Oh, I love pavement art! And you are right, they too are murals, fleeting though they be.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:00 PM

Murals are part of Luray, Virginia's "brand"... We have 13 of them presently... One of them graces a building that I own, which is the old Ford dealership in the middle of town... No, it is no longer the Frod dealership but when I bought the building there were 3 garage doors in thr shop that had been closed up with block so I thought they would make for perfect murals and got some grants and they were completed about 56 months ago by a local artist, Jeenifer Brandt...

Of course they are all automotive in nature...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: John O'L
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 07:21 PM

In just went around the rim of the hat. That is very very clever.

And yes the horse's eye is too

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Bee
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 09:30 PM

Nice art. halifax has quite a few murals, as does Truro, a town in the middle of the province. They also have a lot of large wood sculptures - when the elm trees succumbed to Dutch elm, they cut them about 12 feet up and left them in the ground to be sculpted.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: open mike
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 10:35 PM

pictures, Bobert?

here are the local Oroville, CA murals

near by in chico there are some too..
http://www.101thingstodo.net/chico/55.html

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: mg
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 10:59 PM

We have a lot of them...stagecoaches on the beach, a very realistic cranberry picking one...lumber workers...lots around here. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Oct 07 - 11:03 PM

There are some wonderful murals in the little town of Delta, just down the road from us: click. That guy took some wonderful photos of all over western Colorado. Worth a look through everything he posted, imo.

Sorry, I didn't realise he only had one mural on there.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 01:13 AM

The former Edison Brothers warehouse in St. Louis, MO (It is now a hotel and condominiums.) is covered with trompe l'oeil painting. These are the only photographs I could find; unfortunately, they are too small to do it justice. This building has NO real 3-dimensional decoration--it is all paint on a flat surface. Most of the "windows" you see are fake, too.

http://www.hotel-rates.com/us/missouri/saint-louis/sheraton-st-louis-city-center-hotel-and-suites.html

http://www.stlouislofts.com/400south14th.html

http://www.rgbrinkmann.com/projects/project-display.php?id=33

Here's a better photo of another project by the same artist, Richard Haas, in Cincinnati, OH.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cincinnati-cincinnatus-mural.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Peace
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 01:17 PM

Sorry, Ebbie. Just saw this thread--but have seen the mural before. The technique and materials were tried out at the University of Alberta (on one of the buildings) about 20 years ago. Cochrane is to the south, near Calgary.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Peace
Date: 02 Oct 07 - 01:20 PM

At the U of A


Note: The mural is not painted directly onto the building. It is on panels that are approximately 4' by 6'--and that's a guess. The panels in turn are attached to the building.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 01:24 PM

Peace, as a University of Arizona employee I was momentarily confused by your "U of A" mural that I was unfamiliar with...

Tucson's known for murals, especially Chicano &/or politically themed ones.

Chicano murals

Tucson Arts Brigade

Googling on the topic I found a lengthy NY Times travel article on Tucson's murals, but it had no pictures!

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 01:44 PM

Ebb that was fun.

It put all the murals I have seen in NYC in the shade .

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Peace
Date: 03 Oct 07 - 01:46 PM

Desert Dancer,

Sorry about that. I figure there's only one University of Alberta and I've always called it the You of Ay. Funny that would happen in Arizona, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals... Ebbie
From: GUEST,Betty.. AB
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 05:14 PM

Cochrane is close to the mountains

view map.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Cochrane&state=AB&country=CA&zoom=5

Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 12 Oct 07 - 09:38 PM

Here are some mosaic murals in local slate/shale type stone in Salmo, B. C.. Salmo's main claim to Mudcat fame is that it is the home of Tom Lewis, the singer of sailers' songs.