416. murals 2016
Title: Job Papers
Artist:  Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik and Student artist: 
Medium:Acrylic Paint 
Size: 5x15 ft
Location: 5501 Park Pl, Rosemont, IL 60018
Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District
Parking garage 
Content Explanation: Student artwork depicting master painter . 
Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik.
Poster for 'Job' cigarette paper (1896)
This is perhaps one of Mucha’s best-known advertising 
posters, with numerous editions subsequently published in
a variety of formats for international markets. This poster
established the iconic image of the ‘Mucha woman’ with 
her swirls of exaggeratedly abundant hair.
JOB' is a trademark for the Joseph Bardou Company, 
manufacturers of cigarette papers.
In this poster, Mucha placed the prominent female figure 
against a background featuring Job monograms. Holding a
lighted cigarette in her hand, the woman leans her head
backward sensually, and the rising smoke forms an 
arabesque, intertwining with her hair and the company
logo.
Mucha introduced a Byzantine effect, as seen in the 
Gismonda poster, with the border decoration inspired by 
mosaic work which adds an air of dignity to a commercial
poster. In 1898 Mucha produced another design for Job
which is known as 'great Job'.
Alfons Maria Mucha(Czech: ['alfons 'muxa] 
24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), 
known as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator
and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau 
period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative
theatrical posters of Sarah Bernhardt.[3] He produced
illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels and 
designs which became among the best-known images 
of the period.
In the second part of his career, at the age of 43, he
returned to his homeland and devoted himself to
painting a series of twenty monumental canvases 
known as The Slav Epic, depicting the history of all the
Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 
1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the
independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series
to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important
work. It is now on display in the national museum of
prague.
The Rosemont Mural Initiative is a public arts and youth outreach project, 
where high school and college students participated in the production and fabrication of
30 walls / mural projects. Rahmaan Statik worked as lead artist and with the 
village of Rosemont to manage and produce the mural projects . 
date:2016

417. murals 2016
Title: mc escher Relativity
Artist:  Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik and Student artist: 
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Size: 5x15 ft
Location: 5501 Park Pl, Rosemont, IL 60018
Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District
Parking garage 
Content Explanation: Student artwork depicting master painter . 
Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik.    
Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.
It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. 
The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, 
with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, 
such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. 
All of the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads. 
Identical characters such as these can be found in many other Escher works.

In the world of Relativity, there are three sources of gravity, 
each being orthogonal to the two others. Each inhabitant lives 
in one of the gravity wells, where normal physical laws apply. 
There are sixteen characters, spread between each gravity source, 
six in one and five each in the other two. The apparent confusion 
of the lithograph print comes from the fact that the three gravity 
sources are depicted in the same space.
The structure has seven stairways, and each 
stairway can be used by people who belong to two different 
gravity sources. This creates interesting phenomena, such as in the top stairway, 
where two inhabitants use the same stairway in the same direction and on the same side, 
but each using a different face of each step; thus, one descends the stairway 
as the other climbs it, even while moving in the same direction nearly side-by-side. 
In the other stairways, inhabitants are depicted as climbing the stairways upside-down, 
but based on their own gravity source, they are climbing normally.

Each of the three parks belongs to one of the gravity wells. 
All but one of the doors seem to lead to basements below the parks. 
Though physically possible, such basements are certainly unusual 
and add to the surreal effect of the picture.

This is one of Escher’s most popular works and has been used in a variety of ways.
The Rosemont Mural Initiative is a public arts and youth outreach project, 
where high school and college students participated in the production and fabrication of
30 walls / mural projects. Rahmaan Statik worked as lead artist and with the 
village of Rosemont to manage and produce the mural projects . 
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date:2016

418. murals 2016
Title: The Vitruvian Man
Artist:  Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik and Student artist: 
Medium: Acrylic Paint
Size: 5x15 ft
Location: 5501 Park Pl, Rosemont, IL 60018
Parkway Bank Park Entertainment District
Parking garage 
Content Explanation: 
Explanation: Student artwork depicting master painter . 
Creative director/curator Rahmaan Statik.    
Original artist Leonardo da Vinci
The Vitruvian Man or simply L'Uomo Vitruviano is a drawing 
made by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci around 1490. 
It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. 
The drawing, which is in ink on paper, depicts a man in two 
superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed 
in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the 
Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is kept in the 
Gabinetto dei disegni e stampe of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice, Italy, 
under reference 228. Like most works on paper, it is displayed 
to the public only occasionally, so it is not part of the normal exhibition of the museum.

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human body proportions 
with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III 
of his treatise De architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the 
principal source of proportion among the classical orders of architecture. 
Vitruvius determined that the ideal body should be eight heads high. 
Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect.
The Rosemont Mural Initiative is a public arts and youth outreach project, 
where high school and college students participated in the production and fabrication of
30 walls / mural projects. Rahmaan Statik worked as lead artist and with the 
village of Rosemont to manage and produce the mural projects . 
date:2016