presentation slide for mural art (assignment 2)

1. MURAL ART
EFFECTIVE PUBLIC
COMMUNICATION

2. INTRODUCTION
MURAL ART

3. WHAT IS MURAL ART?
Artwork that painted on wall, ceiling or permanent surface.
other large
Must harmony incorporated with architectural
elements of given spaces
Two types:
Interior mural
Exterior mural

4. MURAL ART 1:
1“AH MAH AND
AH SOON”

6. ARTIST BACKGROUND:
SIMON TAN
• Famous Penang artist
noted for his painting of
scenes in Penang.
• Received numerous
awards related to his art:
Tanjung Heritage Art
Award (2007) and
Cornucopia of Malaysia,
Excellent Award (1996).
• Member of the Penang
Art Society and Penang
State Museum & Ar

7. This mural is the second mural painted by Simon Tan
in Chew Jetty, Penang. The mural depicted an old
lady laughing with her grandson on a wall of a
wooden house at the entrance of Chew Jetty.
Unlike the “Ah Kong & Ah Mah” mural which was
painted at the ground level, this mural was painted
one storey up. This makes it harder to be vandalized.
DESCRIPTION OF THE
MURAL ART

8. THE CONCEPTS
1. Face to face
communication
- Depict a grandmother and a
grandson are having a good time
interacting and communicating
with each other by face to face.
2. Interpersonal
Relationships
The mural depicts a close
relationship between
family members which are
grandmother and
grandson. The relationship
is a happy, peaceful and
harmony relationship.
4. Nonverbal messages
- Facial expression
The wide smiles on the faces of both grandmother
and grandson show that they are happy.
- Hand gesture
-Praising her grandson
-Happy with his grandmother’spraise
5. First impression
- Harmony, peace, happy and
joyful feeling or atmosphere
- Positive first impression.
3. Connotative meaning
- Pigeon is frequently used to
show peace and love
- Depict that the grandmother and
grandson are having a good and
peaceful time.

9. MURAL ART 2:
1
“LITTLE GIRL
IN BLUE”

11. DESCRIPTION OF THE
MURAL ART
This mural was based on a real photograph of a little
girl dressed in blue and pushing herself up with both
hands on the tables.
In the original photograph, the little girl has her
hands on the side of tables, but in the mural, she is
perched over the two windows.
The shadow was carefully painted to make it more
realistic.

12. ARTIST BACKGROUND:
ERNEST ZACHAREVIC• A young Lithuanian artist,
born in 1986
• Also known as Zach
• Currently living in Penang
• Has extensive training in
fine arts and traditional
painting
• Graduated with a university
degree at the National
School of Graphic Arts in
the city of Vilnius in 2005
• Graduate with honors at
the school of fine arts at

13. THE CONCEPTS
1. Non-Dominant Cultural
Communication
- The artwork is done by the artist
from differentculture , there was no
any dominant cultural
5. Subjective perception
- constructedmeaning of the
physical world
- Many peoples think that is the
"scariest" of the murals as the little
girl doesn't seem to be smiling, or
perhaps she's so large, or perhaps
it's due to her hair over her eye
4. Selective perception
-Some people think it is a scary as the
mural art as her hair coveredher eyes
- They ignore the information that the girl
is concentratedin her kung fu
3. Nonverbal
Communication
- : The art is telling others the girl is
practicing her Kongfu’s move by her
dressed and move.
2. Intercultural
communication
- The girl inside the art is practicing
the kongfu’s move . The artist is
trying to show the culture of others
races even he is not a chinese . .

14. MURAL ART 3:
“KID SITTING
ON BOOKS”

16. ARTIST BACKGROUND:
KANG BLABLA• Born on 7 April 1989
• Event participated: Meeting
of Character #5 2012,
MGCCON 24 Hour Comic
Competition 2012, Maxis
Raya Open House 2013,
Art of Blue GAP 2013,
Tresfest 2013, Cafta 2013
• Personal Interests:
illustration l comics l
character design

17. DESCRIPTION OF THE
MURAL ART
This mural shows a young boy dressing smartly
sitting atop a stack of books with an open book on
his hand. Books can be seen floating around the boy
and the boy looks worrying. A large wooden box was
painted into a book and placed in front of the mural.
The box is used as stairs for the people to take photo.

18. THE CONCEPTS
1. NONVERBAL
COMMUNICATION
- The boy is frowning and
crossing his legs.
- Indicate that he is thinking and
worrying.
2. NONVERBAL CUE
- The boy gives the viewers first
impression of rich and noble
because of his suit and golden
crutch.
3. PERSONAL SPACE
- The boy isolated himself in the
realm of books.
- Does not have desire to
communicatewith others.
3. FIRST IMPRESSION
- The colourful background give
an impression of imaginary.
- The flying books portray a
sense of mystical and chaotic.
3. SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONISM
- The books represent knowledge
and wisdom.
- The flying books represent
imagination.

19. MURAL ART 4:
“KIDS WITH BALLOON IN
PINK BACKGROUND”

21. ARTIST BACKGROUND:
MICHELLE YEOH•Graduated from One
Academy with Diploma in
Digital Animations.
•Event participated: COMIC
FIESTA 2011 and 2012, IACT
mural demo, Samsung Horse
Design and Timberland 2013
Anniversary
•Clients: Carlsberg, Dulux,
Sancoraand etc…

22. DESCRIPTION OF THE
MURAL ART
“Kid with Balloon in Pink Background” is to bring back
the childhood memories where life is carefree and
problems never crossed our life. Follow the soul of
your heart to achieve your dream with no fear and no
backing down. Just like the children walking towards
an unknown imaginative word without fear but with joy
and excitement.

23. 5. Connotative Meaning
- Balloon literally means joy
and happiness. Children
literally means innocence.
4. Long-term memory
- 3 main subjects that its
already made an imprint on
our brain about innocence,
that is, variety of colour,
balloon, and candy or you can
say as the imaginative world.
1.Subjective Perception
- Everybody has different thinking on
the same particular subjects.
- Peoples perceive colour in
differentway, some person
perceives blue as clam but some
perceives as distress
- Pink used to bring meaning of hope
and imaginative
3. Body posture
- green colour shoulder is leaning towards
the pink world, conveying a message to
the viewer that he is exited and eager to
enter the pink world.
- Red colour shirt girl’s smile shows
innocence and happiness and her eyes
looking excited and happy just by holding
a balloon on her hand.
2.First impression
- colourful balloon shows childhood
memories and innocence of children
- pink building and trees that
are made up of candy shows an
imaginative world.

24. THANKS !!