Essays about: "Mural Painting"

Found 2 essays containing the words Mural Painting.

1. 1. The Role of Art as a Strategy for Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Bogotá, Colombia : A narrative investigation of Colombian artists and victims

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Valentina Flechas Guzmán; [2023]
   Keywords : Art; Reconciliation; Peacebuilding; Colombia; Truth; Peace; Mercy; Justice; Arte; Reconciliación; Construcción de Paz; Colombia; Verdad; Paz; Misericordia; Justicia;

   Abstract : Due to processes of change, there has been an increase in reconciliation initiatives around Colombia directed at promoting spaces for human interaction and social reconstruction to be encourage. This repertoire of strategies nurture collective memory, individual trauma healing and communities’ transformation, and become a place for peacebuilding to take place. READ MORE

3. 2. Contemporary Art as a Catalyst for Social Change : Public Art and Art Production in a Community of Practice

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för Kultur, samhälle, mediegestaltning – KSM; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Matilda Lindström; [2014]
   Keywords : Contemporary Art; Community; Community of Practice; Mural Painting; Ghana; Community Art; Public Art; Representation;

   Abstract : This master thesis contextualise, and discuss the contemporary art as a catalyst for change, and raises social issues through art production in the urban district Nima. Perspectives of "community", and "community of practice" affiliates with examples of placed based art, mainly mural paintings performed in the urban landscape of the community, in the stigmatised community Nima, an area in Ghana’s capital Accra. READ MORE