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The Mural project was launched in November 2005 to raise funds for the Founders Gallery at the Military Museums. The Mural was installed partially completed in the foyer of the Military Museums in Calgary in November 2006. After many months of work, the completed mural was unveiled on 9 November 2007. The mural comprises 240 separate images in a 20-foot by 12-foot mosaic. Thirteen tiles were painted by guest artists, including five works of art by original war artists of the Second World War. All other images were painted by Lewis Lavoie over a two-year period. The 240 tiles that represent Canadas military history from the Battle of 1812 to present day operations are highlighted by the interactive display. The collective stories reveal the different theatres of war Canadians have been involved in for over nearly 200 years, including both overseas and domestic operations. This ongoing project continues to be a work in progress, as more historical material, sponsor's stories, and writer's documents are added to this growing and significant tribute.

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Willsdon has notably enriched both the history and the canon of British art with this breakthrough study. Albion Willsdon's work of exposition is of lasting value ... Even the specialist in this period will find on every page new and significant information. Albion The sheer physical difficulty of photographing these works, often in poor condition and in buildings which have undergone conversion, cannot be underestimated ... the sudden availability of this visual archive will surely have a major impact on the ways in which British art from the 1840s to the 1930s is understood and taught. Albion Clare Willsdon's massive and superbly illustrated book provides an essential first stage in the process of overturning art history's partial and grudging assessment of the subject. The work of two decades, it is an extraordinary achievement of primary research, both documentary and objectbased. Albion As befits a history rather than a critical study, each scheme gets its due attention, and some - like that in the Royal Exchange, begun in 1892 but stretching to 1924 - are detailed in this book for the first time ... In each section, the best murals are thoughtfully examined, with footnotes revealing the depth of the author's trawl through many unusual archives. Apollo Magazine This magnificent and lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of twenty years' research, and joins such valuable pioneering studies as Benedict Read's Victorian Sculpture and Colin Cunningham's Victorian and Edwardian Town Halls. Apollo Magazine Remarkable achievement based on careful and detailed research that has been intelligently distilled and presented in a beautifully illustrated and unique volume. Dorothy Rowe, The Art Book Continuing in the tradition of an excellent series, this book makes a major contribution to the study of British art ... densely argued, pervasively illustrated, vigorous, wide-questing scholarship that informs this landmark study of a hitherto neglected subject. Burlington Magazine This book comes not a minute too soon. The importance of what remains of a once neglected art form, now being rescued and restored in many instances, may yet be appreciated at a level close to the scale of its ambitions. Charlotte Gere, The Art Newspaper This fine volume in the Clarendon Studies in the History of the Art series successfully puts mural painting on the map of British art history. Art & Christianity Enquiry Bulletin The text is most elegantly phrased and vivid in its description of works; and the complex issues of politics, patronage, style, technique, and meaning are woven together very successfully. In her conclusion Dr Willsdon states that 'Mural painting is a fact which has to be taken into account in any rational appraisal of British art as a whole' and in producing this major work she removes any excuses for the future neglect of this significant art form. Annette Carruthers, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History Splendidly illustrated .

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Around 100 inhabitants of a crime-ridden neighborhood of this metropolis in western Mexico have painted murals as a plea for greater security for their families. The locals are using the walls to request an end to the incessant robberies, murders and street-gang brawls in their area, one of the project's organizers, Rosalio Lopez Casanova, told Efe. "There have even been murders here, and we see this project as a peaceful way for local residents to say we've had enough," he said. There have even been murders here, and we see this project as a peaceful way for local residents to say we've had enough. - Rosalio Lopez Casanova Armed with paintbrushes and paint cans, children and adults in the Los Colorines housing development took to the streets and began daubing colors on the walls of their buildings to express their yearning for peace. Adolfo Nava Bustos, a member of the neighborhood's security committee, said that besides giving people a way to express themselves, painting murals is also a way for them to take back the streets, so often the scene of gang fights and drug trafficking. "Having a more orderly space and with elements of art as well makes people feel safer and they actually want to go outdoors into the streets - it creates a healthier atmosphere," he said. Multicolored lines representing a snake stretching around homes in much of the neighborhood, and the image of a woman mourning with red handprints around her, are some of the creations covering close to 700 square meters (7,500 square feet) of wall space. In a second phase of the project, fences will be decorated with fragments of poems, with slogans calling for peace and with the lyrics of songs composed by young people of the neighborhood. The project is aided by two artists, who advise the locals on how to paint their murals, and by the Guadalajara municipal government, which donates the paint. Nava said that the community is made up of some 500 families. It is located in a poor area of the city and has suffered increasing crime and violence.

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Murals as for tourism

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