muralistn.
/ˈmjʊərl̩ɪst/, /ˈmjʊərəlɪst/, /ˈmjɔːrl̩ɪst/, /ˈmjɔːrəlɪst/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrələst/ A painter of murals; spec. a member of a Mexican school of mural painters that flourished in the first half of the 20th cent.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > a mural painting > painter
muralist1901
mural painter1908
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements > artists
luminarist1888
luminist1901
Suprematist1919
precisionist1927
muralist1937
neoprimitive1938
Rayonist1947
nuclearist1952
neo-expressionist1955
structurist1958
neo-Dadaist1960
body artist1971
post-minimalist1971
1901 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 275 We say enthusiastically of Giotto,..‘There was a muralist far more purely decorative than some later and even greater men.’.
1902 P. King Amer. Mural Painting vii. 144 Mr. Sargent has put his name to the last canvas..—brilliant modern brother, as he is, of the muralists of old.
1937 Mexican Art Series v. 1 Diego Rivera, the great Mexican muralist, painted the frescoes in the ancient Cortez Palace, in Cuernavaca, Marelos, in 1930.
1941 M. Helm Mod. Mexican Painters 198 Even the muralists..have not been coherently related by any really persuasive identity of object.
1960 A. M. Reed Mexican Muralists 15/2 Another great stimulus for the incipient muralists was the open-air art schools founded by Alfredo Ramos Martinez..in 1913.
2000 Daily Record (Electronic ed.) 5 Aug. She called in muralist Craig Ferguson to paint a fairytale woodland scene right round the room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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