Arrested Development - Ex-Pats Mexico

This culture is a tricky thing. One of the few fresco murals in British Columbia has been covered with sheetrock because some people felt that it depicted aboriginal peoples in a "degrading" way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8596060@N05/636804944/

Just another "fine" example where the "PC attitudes" prevail over real history!

Well, I think everyone remembers what happened to Rivera's beautiful murals for Rockefeller Center. The portrait of Lenin doomed them to destruction. I'm not sure if they were ever seen by the public. Sad.

N.

I designed a fresco mural, but never carried through, which purposely breaks apart into chunks. The chunks are planned from the start as stand alone pieces, but still a part of the whole - this the only way I can see that a mural could ever be marketed today. The chunks are then auctioned off, with a poster of the whole piece. Fresco is never selected for public art projects in Canada or the U.S.A. because it is so easily vandalized (tagged) - the spray paint would soak in and could never be removed. The whole fresco would need an anti graffiti coating - which would spoil the whole effect of the lime plaster. In Europe, I believe everything is closely gaurded, behind glass, or only reproductions displayed.

Yet in Mexico the one of a kind frescoes are left to public access, and are never damaged or vandalized. Amazing really, and a compliment to the people of Mexico and their cultural pride.

I'm just setting up for fresco again. I will be doing decorative panels and themes based on the Roman African mosaics. I like the Byzantine colors and designs too.

In one of my past lives I was a pottery major in Eugene Oregon ... just because soon after bopping into town I ran into a high school friend who was teaching it. He got his masters in utilitarian process where he had to fire 50 or 100 identical dishes or plates in the same kiln stacked perfectly.

When I met him he was well beyond that and made some of the coolest murals with ceramic pieces. All was earth tone, little gloss, with lots of relief (elevation) .... and I had lots of fun helping him - just the production part. Still the largest were only 4-5 feet SQ

Nancy ~ While you were in Chihuahua did you happen to see the murals in the home/museum of Pancho Villa? They are very colorful and were made by a protege of Mora. Lizzy

Did yu ever see this confrontation over the second to last, last supper?