Mural painting refers to the painting, sculpture, or other means in the natural or artificial wall painting. As a subsidiary part of the building, its decoration and beautification function make it an important aspect of environmental art.
; . The prehistoric paintings for murals and cliff caves, the earliest dating back about 20000 years. Shaanxi Xianyang Chinese Qin palace fresco, dating back to 2300. In the Han Dynasty and Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties period mural painting is also very prosperous, since twentieth Century has been excavated many. The formation of the Tang Dynasty Murals flourishing period, such as the Dunhuang murals, such as the Kizil Grottoes, mural art peak. After the Song Dynasty, the murals gradually declined. After 1949, the murals were restored and developed.
. After that, in some new buildings continue to add murals, many works in the art performance, production techniques and inheritance, learn from foreign experience, have been innovative and development.
, , , , , ,, ,, two kinds of painting and drawing process. Painting type refers to the method of painting, especially the hand drawn method is directly on the wall. Painted with drawing plotted on the specific representations: dry fresco in coarse clay and fine mud, stone mortar wall surface is dry, wet mural, basal half dry, to clear limewater pigment is mixed, shall be a complete, more difficult; third, egg tempera, with egg yolk or egg white as the main harmonic agent of water soluble pigment in the dry wall painting, opaque, easy to dry, have a sense of solidity; (4) wax, wax and pigment mixed painting on wood or stone, heat treatment, oil painting, painting in linen cloth or wood, and acrylic painting, using acrylic acid as the main harmonic agent, quick drying, non shiny, modern mural. The above representations sometimes mixed, or with the production process, combined with the relief.
; painting technology is the means of production to complete the final results of the murals. The handcraft or modern technology, a variety of material texture, texture properties and special artistic effect, can achieve other means of painting can not reach, so it is widely used, modern mural: Wall carving, between sculpture and murals, tendency of plane composition, mainly in volume modeling, it is still close to the mural, a shallow relief, deep relief and incised lines and other techniques, materials, cement, ceramics, stone carving, bronze; the wall engraved with chalk, cement, lime, quartz sand, and then transferred to the wall, paint, dry, peeling moment of different color, make the wall paintings; mosaic mural, mainly in cement adhesive, color stone, ceramics, glass, enamel, shell color, precious stones and other particles embedded into the fight; ceramic murals, convenient manufacture, durable, good visual effect, widely used as the means of modern mural painting. In addition, you can use a variety of craft murals, such as grinding paint, lacquer painting, carpet weaving, printing and dyeing, synthetic resin, synthetic fiber etc.. Modern mural painting involves many categories, which have become a marginal art in painting, sculpture, craft, architecture and modern industrial technology.
