Mural Traditions
Both put a community's story on a wall anyone can see, though one was a state commission handed to painters and the other is decoration women apply to their own houses.
Dictionary entry
- Mexican Muralism 1920s–1940s / Style
Paints post-revolutionary history, labor, indigenous culture and visions of the future onto the vast walls of public buildings.
- Ndebele House Painting 1940s– / Style
Ndebele women in South Africa paint high-chroma geometry across the walls of their houses. The straight lines are ruled by hand alone, and the house itself becomes a banner of resistance and identity.