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We believe that murals are the most antique known form of media, widely used long before the writing, not only as an expression of the art of a time, but most of the times as a medium of communicating ideas, events, testimonies and even prophecies.

Also in decorative art, the murals, as elements of decoration and adaptation to a new environment, are present much longer before what we know as modern civilization.

Throne room at the Palace of Knossos, Crete. Dated 1450 BC

At approximately the age of Enlightenment, the concept of ‘work of art’ appears the way we know it today: paintings in smaller canvases, which noblemen could order and take to their homes, individualizing, thus the Painting and causing the art of murals to partially lose its collective social function.

But the Mural has remained alive for all those years. Many artists have used mural painting to express themselves, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Claude Monet, and Candido Portinari, among others.

Contrary to paintings which compose the environment and much stronger than panels which complete the environment, we can say that modern muralism render theme to the environment.

It is no longer a matter of smoothing spaces but influencing them, creating the theme proposed by the decorator. All the decoration is made in accordance to its theme.

In this particular point, Jefferson Cabral is acknowledged as one of the greatest artists in this technique, as it can be seen in a mural painted in a garage, transforming the environment into a cozy living room.