Mural Escola

Topic: Rural school The Garden School belongs to the ZER GUICIVERVI. It has been a rural school since the beginning and has as traveling companions the neighboring towns of Guimerà, Ciutadilla, and Vilagrassa. The rural school has always been associated with a high educational value.

Elements: With a quick look at the mural we will notice a tractor that cultivates the rural landscape that defines us, some chickens next to the garden, which remind us of the proximity. The Castle, the Parish Church of Santa Maria, our immediate surroundings. At the top of the Castle Tower, a member of the guard is playing in unison with an ecclesiastic, who is located in the bell tower of the Church, the melody of Cant dels Ocells, by Pau Casals. Traffic ants carry the letters of the names of the teachers who headed the school team for forty years, and above all transmitted the passion for teaching and learning. Pay attention to the books, the importance of the language, the music, the sausage tree that recalls the tradition of Fat Thursday. Above all, the illusion represented through the kites that the boys and girls fly into the sky.

Style: Through this mural, Enric Orobitg describes a school linked to the town, with an active, social function and above all with a family atmosphere that allows for a very close relationship, represented through a figurative artistic style.

Symbolism: The design chosen to represent the mural draws our attention, the ceramist has chosen the almond shape of an eye, paying special attention to the look on education.

Ordered: It was the Verdú City Council that commissioned this ceramic mural as a tribute to the school.

Historical context: Rural School.