BrusselsPictures.com » Roger Somville http://www.brusselspictures.com Photo Blog Covering the City of Brussels, Belgium Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:23:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Notre Temps Mural at Hankar Metro station http://www.brusselspictures.com/2009/03/07/notre-temps-mural-at-hankar-metro-station/ http://www.brusselspictures.com/2009/03/07/notre-temps-mural-at-hankar-metro-station/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:30:41 +0000 admin http://www.brusselspictures.com/?p=913 The wildly colorful “Notre Temps” fresco was painted on the ceilings and walls of the Hankar STIB Metro station by Roger Somville, leader of the Belgian Expressionists Movement. The mural uses a lot of bright and strident colors in shades of orange and red to represent the struggles of the working class to attain social and economic  justice. Somville completed this monumental mural in 1976 with the help of four of his assistants.

Location of Hankar Metro station:


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Photos of Notre Temps Mural:

Left side

Right side

Details of the left side

Right side detail

Front view

Details of the front


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