Editing Mural (section)

===Modern art===
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The term mural became better known with the [[Mexican muralism]] art movement ([[Diego Rivera]], [[David Alfaro Siqueiros|David Siqueiros]] and [[José Clemente Orozco|José Orozco]]). 
The first mural painted in the 20th century, was “El árbol de la vida”, by [[Roberto Montenegro]].

There are many different [[Painting style|styles]] and techniques. The best-known is probably ''[[fresco]]'', which uses pigments dispersed in water with a damp [[Whitewash|lime wash]], rapid use of the resulting mixture over a large surface, and often in parts (but with a sense of the whole). The colors lighten as they dry.  The ''[[marouflage]]'' method has also been used for millennia.

Murals today are painted in a variety of ways, using oil or water-based media. The styles can vary from abstract to ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' (a French term for "fool" or "trick the eye"). Initiated by the works of mural artists like [[Graham Rust]] or [[Rainer Maria Latzke]] in the 1980s, [[trompe-l'œil]] painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in Europe.
Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or [[canvas]] which is then pasted to a wall surface ''(see [[wallpaper]], [[Frescography]])'' to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.

A special type of mural painting is [[Lüftlmalerei]], still practised today in the villages of the Alpine valleys. Well-known examples of such façade designs from the 18th and 19th centuries can be found in [[Mittenwald]], [[Garmisch]], [[Unterammergau|Unter-]] and [[Oberammergau]].