The Role Of Ceramic Murals In Urban Public Spaces

Mural art is a kind of decoration art in public space environment,it enriches the urban public space environment with the Public sculpture and Public landscape, and the development of the urban public art has led to the development of the mural art. In the eighty’s of last century. The appearance of the mural of Beijing Capital Airport opens a new chapter of Chinese modern mural art. With China’s rapid urbanization development process, a large number of public space needs this old and novel art form to show the charm of space.Mural art has a variety of materials, both have stone reliefs, portrait bricks, marble, ceramic, metal and other hard materials, and Acrylic painting, watercolor, lacquer, fiber and other soft materials. In these materials, Ceramic mural far ahead in the mural art by its unique characteristics of the material properties and characteristics of mud fire. Many excellent artists love to use ceramic materials, because of its low cost, rich expressive force, material affinity, easy to process and characteristic of fire etc. Though cannot be compared with the in-depth of the art of painting, but the ceramic material under the action of the fire, fine texture of the material, There is also a unique charm Is the other material can not be achieved, Coupled with Stability of ceramic materials, Coupled with the advantages of stability,adaptability of ceramic materials, strong historical and cultural characteristics and distinctive geographical features, Make ceramic murals in the mural art has always been of its own.In recent years, with the improvement of people’s aesthetic judgment, people are aware of the same commercial advertisements and lights as a sign of the city make urban culture seem monotonous and boring. Too much commercial cultural lead to the consumption of a single effect, It is not enough to fill the aesthetic and cultural needs of the people strong, but can not eliminate people’s aesthetic weariness. The construction of city culture needs to change the monotonous consumption pattern of the space environment now, personalized design for the environment, Environment should be more humanistic color, less utilitarian content. Ceramic material is the most emotional, the most diverse forms of painting in the Mural material, it deeply reflects the connotation of city culture: the true, the good and the beautiful.“The true” is the combination of science and technology, the infinite possibility of innovative technology;“The good” is full of people’s good wishes and prayers in the eastern traditional culture;“The beautiful”is the beauty of art in the development of human culture. Ceramic mural art contains natural feelings and humanistic spirit, pay attention to build the city space environment with rich humanistic feelings, as much as possible to weaken the city commercial atmosphere, alleviate the repetitive visual fatigue caused by commercial culture, so as to improve the environment, enhance the city’s cultural taste.This paper expatiates the concept and historical development of mural art, contrast the mural material features of different material, explore the advantages of ceramic materials in the mural art. Combined with the case of ceramic mural art in the urban public space, discusses ceramic murals in the role of urban public space environment. For its better integrated into the urban public cultural construction, in combination with the development of science and technology, conceive of ceramic mural art developing diversification may be present in the future development direction. In the infinite possibility, enrich the language of modern ceramic mural, shape the static and dynamic combination, and have the characteristic of the city.