14, 15 At the beginning of the century, with the development of religion, painting methods of drawing various religious patterns on walls appeared. The drawings are generally based on religion and are used to decorate buildings belonging to churches and other churches, thus increasing the seriousness and sacredness of buildings and the environment. In ancient Egypt, artists carved various patterns on walls and columns as decorations, many of which recorded the life of the owner of the residence and recorded various fairy tales. This is the original mural art in Egypt.

In Tibet, China, people painted Buddha statues on walls and painted thangkas (ornaments made of cowhide) to drive away evil and pray for peace. In all countries and religions, there are records of carving and painting on walls. These murals recording the religious and living conditions at that time are today's murals. In 1960s, graffiti culture appeared in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. From the simple combination of letters and numbers such as labels and house numbers to the study of fonts and effects in the early 1970s, graffiti has gone out of the corner of the United States and become a global artistic creation in the past 40 years.

Wall painting began to appear frequently in home decoration.

Murals are like the spring breeze in home decoration.

Why is the wall painting not from graffiti? This should start from the root of graffiti. Graffiti, a graffiti art that combines the culture of "HipHop", was formed in new york in the early 1970s. Edward, a scholar at City University of new york, wrote in the Encyclopedia of the World: public toilets, walls of public buildings, or stones in parks are often graffiti; Some words and phrases are not very healthy; Sometimes it's just names, but also about sex, and many of them are political slogans. It is true that graffiti is the expression of young people's personality, the expression of trends, the release of freedom and the limitation of content.

Let's look at the word "graffiti" in Chinese. It turned out that Lu Tong of the Tang Dynasty said that his son had scribbled. This allusion comes from the Jade Biography Subsets. Tian Yunding: Lu Tong has a son named Tian Ding, who likes to scribble and often makes Lu Tong's books dirty and messy. Therefore, Lu Tong wrote a poem: "Suddenly, he turned over the case and inked it, smearing poetry books like an old crow." Describe his son's naughty and his helplessness vividly. Later, people got the word "graffiti" from Lutong's poems, which has been passed down to this day.

Now popular painting, such as painting on T-shirts, fabrics, irons, wallets, plastics, clothes, etc. It has even developed into body painting, which shows that painting is an attempt of various media. The interpretation of body painting is the representative of painting interpretation. In the pursuit of beauty, artists are more and more tired of expressing their thoughts on paper or cloth, so some people find that the human body is actually the best carrier of beauty, and the texture full of life luster can not be displayed by any traditional media and painting art. The focus here is on cultural background. Body painting originated from abroad, but we in China also have our own body painting, which is the art of facial makeup in Peking Opera. In fact, the distance between the two arts is not so far, but they have different cultural backgrounds in specific performance. Nowadays, popular body painting is accepted by people because of its wide range of themes and suitability for decoration, but it is essentially the same as our face painting. The reason why it is not popular may be that China people are conservative and inflexible.

Graffiti, as a street art, ranks as four important elements of HipHop along with hip hop, rap and DJ, and the graffiti content is owned by a few people. Painting is only a media problem, that is to say, wall painting is not graffiti or painting, because the source of wall painting is the familyization, individualization and liberalization of murals, which is the beautification effect in the form of painting in family decoration!