Murals
Post-it Note Murals
After posting on David Guinn’s digital murals that we saw in Philadelphia, I thought about these Post-it Note Murals, also made up of colored square components. They remind me of a modern Seurat. I like their colors and how clever they are. All photos are from Buzzfeed. Sorry for the late post, btw. Monday seemed to come and go unnoticed while I’m working on a deadline. Because I’m operating a day behind, I’ll post Thursday’s post on Friday and we should be back up to speed next week.
Philadelphia and Murals 1
Part of our Christmas family gift was to take a trip to Philadelphia to see The Barnes Collection. While there I had hoped to take a tour of Philly’s incredible murals. I have been saving so many links regarding Philadelphia’s murals that this now seems the time to post them in reference to this trip. Although we didn’t see as many of the murals as I wanted to see, we covered about eight, right around our spectacular Hyatt hotel on Broad Street during a night walking tour after a late arrival and a delicious meal at XIX (Nineteen Restaurant), on the 19th floor with an incredible view overlooking the city.…
Morman Murals
What a great way to start the New Year by our appreciation of Nature. These beautiful Nature murals can be found in the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple (photo below). Some early art missionaries, Lorus Pratt, John B. Fairbanks, John Hafen and Edwin Evans and later Elder Herman H. Haag, set off to learn mural painting from ateliers in Paris and returned in the 1890’s to apply what they learned to paint murals in their Morman Temple in Salt Lake City. Following this similar missionary goal, artist Linda Curley Christensen along with other faithful workers have used their God-given talents to paint this Nature mural in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. They…
