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The Chartist Mural was a mosaic mural designed by Kenneth Budd and created in 1978 in a pedestrian underpass in Newport, South Wales. It commemorated the Newport Rising of 1839, in which an estimated 22 demonstrators were killed by troops. It was long and high. The mural was controversially destroyed in 2013 despite some public opposition and protests, before adjacent buildings were demolished to make way for the Friars Walk redevelopment. ==History== The mural comprised 200,000 pieces of tile and glass. It was designed by Kenneth Budd and erected in 1978 at an entrance to John Frost Square, which had itself been created through redevelopment and named in the 1960s.〔 The mural celebrated the Chartist uprising of 1839, when John Frost led a march of thousands of protestors to the Westgate Hotel which was fired on by troops; some 22 demonstrators were killed. Budd researched the Chartist rebellion for four months in consultation with experts at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.〔 He then created the mural in hundreds of square panels in Kent which were later assembled on site.〔Nick Dermody, ("Newport Chartist mural artwork faces demolition" ), ''BBC News'', 13 March 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2013〕 The mural showed: * the march of the armed Chartist insurrectionists towards Newport * the Chartists' marching banners for the democratic demands of the Six Points of the People's Charter * their convergence on the Westgate Hotel to protest their demands * the final tragedy when soldiers opened fire upon the assembled Chartists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Newport Chartist Mural: Celebrating Democracy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chartist Mural」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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