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muralism en · NOUN

Etymology

From mural + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) An art movement involving murals.
   • With its pumped-up colors, a focus on everyday lives made heroic and its status as an essentially public artwork, “Departures” strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s, a movement born from the Chicano civil rights movement when Mexican-American artists like Judy Baca, David Rivas Botello and Willie Herrón adapted the Mexican muralist tradition for their own time. 2007 August 12, Carol Kino, “Cybermural: The Web as the Wall”, in New York Times:

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