wall painting
Art on plaster
A wall painting is artwork applied directly to a wall surface rather than on canvas or paper.
The term covers everything from ancient cave paintings to Renaissance frescoes to modern murals.
The restaurant features a colorful wall painting of the Italian countryside.
Distinguished from hung artwork by being integral to the wall itself.
- muralWall-applied artwork
- graffiti artSpray-painted urban imagery
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- wet plasterMoist wall-coating material
- Diego RiveraMexican mural master
giornata · lime wash · brushes · Renaissance art · art history · cave paintings · plaster · street art · realism · encaustic · tempera · cultural preservation · storytelling · religious iconography · stucco · memorialization · commission · cave
- mural conservationconsolidation, stabilization, inpainting, retouching, plaster repair
- South Indian artsveena, temple murals, devotional music, bronze casting, silk weaving
- ornamentationornaments, ornament, ornamentation, ornamental, embellishment
- ancient muralsfresco, mural, Pompeii, cave paintings, tomb paintings
- decorative paintingmural, murals, fresco, frescoes, trompe l'oeil
- Egyptian arttomb paintings, hieroglyphics, sarcophagi, scarabs, hieroglyphs
wall paintingeasel painting
Artwork created on standing support
canvas painting · oil on canvas · scroll painting · miniature painting · illuminated manuscript
wall paintingoil on canvas
Paint type on woven surface
watercolor · drawing · sketch · print · miniature painting