Mural Painting (Latin murus,"wall"), is decoration of walls or ceilings for artistic or educational purposes, execute in any of several technique. Most often used to beautify public buildings, mural paintings tend to be of large scale and to portray religious, significant, or patriotic themes significant to the public. Personally allied to architectural and ornamental schemes, mural art frequently emphasize or enhance interior design, or can change it, giving the illusion of diverse spatial dimensions.

Mural painting techniques embrace encaustic painting, fresco, oil work of art, and tempera painting; the term wall painting is in fact often second-hand interchangeably with the stipulations mural or mural painting. Ceramic objects and, more freshly, liquid silicates, acrylics, and ablaze porcelain enamel are other medium often in employment in mural art. Some modern mural has also been self-possessed of photograph. Mosaics, often used to adorn fortifications and ceilings, are well thought-out a separate genre, nevertheless.