Editing Mural (section)

==Politics==
<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
RiveraMuralNationalPalace.jpg|[[Diego Rivera]]'s mural ''[[The History of Mexico (mural)|The History of Mexico]]'' at the [[National Palace (Mexico)|National Palace]] in [[Mexico City]] (1929-1935).
BardiaMural.jpg|The [[Bardia Mural]], photographed in the 1960s, prior to its damage by defacement and the ravages of time.
Press Cafe in East Berlin on Alexanderplatz, 1977.jpg|Murals displaying the Marxist view of the press on this [[East Berlin]] cafe in 1977 were covered over by commercial advertising after Germany was reunited.
Wien - Donald-Trump- und Kim-Jong-un-Graffiti von Lush Sux.JPG|A mural with [[Kim Jong Un]] and [[Donald Trump]] in Vienna.
Tun Dr. Mahathir - panoramio.jpg|The mural of former [[Prime Minister of Malaysia|Malaysian Prime Minister]] [[Mahathir Mohamad]] in [[Alor Setar]]
</gallery>
The [[Mexican Muralism|Mexican mural]] movement in the 1930s brought new prominence to murals as a social and political tool. [[Diego Rivera]], [[José Orozco]] and [[David Siqueiros]] were the most famous artists of the movement. Between 1932 and 1940, Rivera also painted murals in  [[San Francisco]], [[Detroit]], and [[New York City]]. In 1933, he completed a famous series of twenty-seven fresco panels entitled ''[[Detroit Industry]]'' on the walls of an inner court at the [[Detroit Institute of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Diego Rivera|url=http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rivera/rivera.html|publisher=Olga's Gallery|access-date=2007-09-24}}</ref> During the [[McCarthyism]] of the 1950s, a [[:file:Diego Rivera Mural Sign.jpg|large sign]] was placed in the courtyard defending the artistic merit of the murals while attacking his politics as "detestable".
[[File:UN security council 2005.jpg|thumb|The [[United Nations Security Council mural]], by [[Per Krohg]] (1952), towers over meetings of the [[United Nations Security Council|Security Council]] at [[United Nations headquarters|UN headquarters]] in New York City]]
In 1948, the Colombian government hosted the IX Pan-American Conference to establish the [[Marshall plan]] for the Americas. The director of the OEA and the Colombian government commissioned master [[Santiago Martinez Delgado]], to paint a mural in the Colombian congress building to commemorate the event. Martinez decided to make it about the [[Congress of Cúcuta|Cúcuta Congress]], and painted [[Simón Bolívar|Bolívar]] in front of [[Francisco de Paula Santander|Santander]], making liberals upset; so, due to the murder of Jorge Elieser Gaitan the mobs of el [[bogotazo]] tried to burn the capitol, but the Colombian Army stopped them. Years later, in the 1980s, with liberals in charge of the Congress, they passed a resolution to turn the whole chamber in the Elliptic Room 90 degrees to put the main mural on the side and commissioned [[Alejandro Obregon]] to paint a non-partisan mural in the [[surrealist]] style.

In Chile, the [[Romana Parra Brigade]] painted political murals in support of workers rights and Communism.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saul |first=Ernesto |title=Social Painting in Chile |year=1972}}</ref>

[[Northern Ireland]] contains some of the most famous political murals in the world.<ref>Maximilian Rapp and Markus Rhomberg: Seeking a Neutral Identity in Northern Ireland's Political Wall Paintings. In: Peace review 24(4).</ref> Almost 2,000 murals have been documented in Northern Ireland since the 1970s.<ref>Maximilian Rapp and Markus Rhomberg: The importance of Murals during the Troubles: Analyzing the republican use of wall paintings in Northern Ireland. In: Machin, D. (Ed.) Visual Communication Reader. De Gruyter.</ref> In recent times, many murals are non-sectarian, concerning political and social issues such as racism and environmentalism, and many are completely apolitical, depicting children at play and scenes from everyday life. (See [[Northern Irish murals]].)

A not political, but social related mural covers a wall in an old building, once a prison, at the top of a cliff in Bardiyah, in Libya.  It was painted and signed by the artist in April 1942, weeks before his death on the first day of the [[First Battle of El Alamein]].  Known as the [[Bardia Mural]], it was created by English artist, private [[John Frederick Brill]].<ref name=" Commonwealth War Graves Commission">
{{cite web| last =Commonwealth War Graves Commission| url =http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=Brill&initials=J+F&war=2&yearfrom=1942&yearto=1942&force=Army&nationality=&send.x=42&send.y=14| title =Last Resting Place| access-date =29 May 2006 }}</ref>

In 1961 [[East Germany]] began to erect a wall between East and [[West Berlin]], which became famous as the [[Berlin Wall]]. While on the East Berlin side painting was not allowed, artists painted on the Western side of the Wall from the 80s until the fall of the Wall in 1989.

Many unknown and known artists such as [[Thierry Noir]] and [[Keith Haring]] painted on the Wall, the "World's longest [[canvas]]". The sometimes detailed artwork were often painted over within hours or days. On the Western side the Wall was not protected, so everybody could paint on the Wall. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Eastern side of the Wall became also a popular "canvas" for many mural and [[graffiti]] artists.
[[Orgosolo]], in [[Sardinia]], is a most important center of [[murals]] [[politics]].

It is also common for mural graffiti to be used as a memoir. In the 2001 book ''Somebody Told Me'', [[Rick Bragg]] writes about a series of communities, mainly located in New York, that have walls dedicated to the people who died.<ref>Bragg, Rick. ''Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg''. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.</ref> These memorials, both written word and mural style, provide the deceased to be present in the communities in which they lived. Bragg states that the "murals have woven themselves in the fabric of the neighborhoods, and the city". These memorials remind people of the deaths caused by inner city violence.