The longest and most meaningful mural
the world has ever seen.
Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday [www.pbs.gov.ph]
Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War (1945-1989)
Acknowledgement: Photo from Internet
Acknowledgement: Photo from Internet
Freedom has wings, no wall can hold;
not The Great Wall or the Berlin Wall;
long imprisoned the human spirit be,
just a crack leads to its eventual fall.
not The Great Wall or the Berlin Wall;
long imprisoned the human spirit be,
just a crack leads to its eventual fall.
More powerful is faith that breaks it
in figures, colors, symbols they convey,
the interconnectedness of humanity
through mural - art in visual story.
in figures, colors, symbols they convey,
the interconnectedness of humanity
through mural - art in visual story.
Tearing down walls in world's history
is more difficult than building one;
as empty as space, or as high as Eiffel,
time the greatest element 'til it's gone.
And the ruins talk of human triumph
and defeat, of human folly and frailty,
enshrined in his art, the universal
language of man's greatest story.
NOTE: The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 when the divided city and nation were re-united. The year marked the beginning of post-Cold War era, released from the polarization of two superpowers and their allies - America and USSR (now Russia after its dissolution). On both sides of the wall murals of common themes and subjects were discovered. It marked a new movement in the Arts.
Irrespective of ideology - democracy or socialism - man's common desire for freedom remains unconquerable. Whatever happened to most parts of the wall can be gleamed from fragments of it, so with the murals, now being kept as precious souvenirs in many nations. I personally saw and touched a brick from the wall in a remote village in Israel. It was a beautiful feeling to be part of Humanity's Neo-Renaissance.
Irrespective of ideology - democracy or socialism - man's common desire for freedom remains unconquerable. Whatever happened to most parts of the wall can be gleamed from fragments of it, so with the murals, now being kept as precious souvenirs in many nations. I personally saw and touched a brick from the wall in a remote village in Israel. It was a beautiful feeling to be part of Humanity's Neo-Renaissance.
Nation and Capital divided during the entire Cold War Period.
Wall appears like giant streamers, in collage of posters on
buildings, stairways, and slabs.
augmented by other barriers and detection devices.
Murals on trash cans and windows. 
Murals extend longer than the eye can follow.
Murals extend longer than the eye can follow.
Acknowledgement: Photos from the Internet.
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