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Murals Part 2 of 2

 
 

Diego Rivera
Mexican artist (1886-1957).
The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City "Making a
Fresco"
1931 is
One of four murals in the
Bay Area
Fresco Technique
     
  Paul Klee
1936
Southern Gardens
Swiss and lived in Germany
Taught at the Bauhaus School in Germany
   
  Pablo Picasso • Guernica • 1937
Spanish and lived in France • Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War—Guernica. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity,
brutality and hopelessness of war
.
 
  Marc Chagall
French
United Nations building (1964)
"Peace", for the UN in honor of Dag Hammarskjöld UN's second secretary general who was killed in an airplane crash in Africa during 1961
     
 

Jean Dubuffet
French
Hourloupe cycle in 1962

Pierre Alechinsky and Erik Nyholm's ceramic sculpture "14 blue stones"

     
 

Jean Dubuffet
French
Incitations Divergentes
1976
Acrylic on glued paper on canvas (twenty-eight parts overall), 173 x 291 cm
Photo: Christian Baur

     
  Keith Haring
A recreation of Haring's famous mural, originally painted in 1982, on the corner of Houston Street and the Bowery in New York City.

The homage to the artist was painted at the same location and was exhibited for a year between 2008 and 2009
     
 

Graffiti
1999
San Francisco