
born in July 1963 the mural policy Chile
born with the monumental mural that was painted on the bridge Capuchin huge site visibility, and that there goes the thick traffic that flows between Valparaiso and Vina del Mar. I had about a hundred and thirty feet long and a height ranging from three to six meters. He worked on three different teams, made up mostly of students from the Universities of Chile and Santa Maria and directed by Gastón Vilavecchia painters, Italian artist based in Grapevine, Nemesio Rivera and Jorge Osorio. Each group developed a different theme, and the magnitude of the task, had to rely on a quasi-business infrastructure.
During the days when the entire performance of the work, the bridge became a virtual object of popular pilgrimage. The committees with all its members would see the progress of the mural. And they had food and drinks for painters.
The mural made a big impression in the area. And triggered a wave initiatives that are sprinkled throughout the province. Murals were painted many important: one commissioned by the port, one at Quintero, etc. In the Command there were still, despite everything, some reluctance, and it was necessary to dissipate the categorical opinion of the candidate, who described the movement as the ultimate wall of his campaign. Was otherwise the Allende Santiago who took the idea to reproduce the example.
The subsequent history is known. The mural became a national phenomenon and mass art blossomed in the 1970 election campaign. What had been born in that month of July 1963 as a local initiative, a product of the imagination of a small group of locals, went on to become one of the most vibrant and original contributions of people's creativity Chile whose echoes, as we said, went beyond our borders.
are many names linked to the collective artistic adventure. I want to evoke only a painter, Ramon Meza, who taught the young brigade of Mount Pleasant how to paint the letters in a professional manner. He, unknowingly became one of the pioneers of this vast movement. Patrick Cleary
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