Photograph of one of the murals painted in the Mautone Clinical Center in Maldonado, Uruguay.

Breaking the routine of the easel, Carlos Páez Vilaró has always been pushed towards creating larger works leaving the frame to reach the mural. Right from the beginning of his paintings, he went over the limits of the small canvases and looked for the largeness of the wall where he could dream . During the performance of a Health Crusade, he tried to impose the proverb "Color before Pain", with the paintings that he left in the heart of the hospitals, such as the case of: "San Fernando Hospital", in Chile, "Children Hospital" in Anillaco, La Rioja, Argentina and the " Hospital of the Georgetown University", in the United States of America. Carlos Páez Vilaró considers that the mural painting is the art assembled to the heart of the people, the color that gives happiness by dressing the streets.

"If canvas painting is only for those that can purchase this art, mural art is free open for everybody", the master expresses in his bok "Art and Part".

In 1960, he is invited by the Visual Arts Department of the American States Organization, and he travels to the United States to perform the mural "Raíces de la Paz" ("Roots of Peace", which, in that time, was considered the longest of the world (162 meters long) in the tunnel that joins the buldings of the Panamerican Union.

In 1962, being in the Ivory Coast, Africa, the Douala Military Command in Cameroun took him on to make an enormous mural in exchange of two passages which would let him go to visit Dr. Albert Schweitzer who had gently invited him to the Lepers’ Center.
He painted a mural in the Relais Hotel in Port Gentil and a great painting in other hotel of the same chain in Libreville.

 

In the Conrad Resort & Casino, Punta del Este, he painted the bottom of the enormous swimming-pool and an inner mural which describes the history of the city of Maldonado, Uruguay, 1997.

 

In 1998 Carlos Páez Vilaró painted a mural (3 mts. high by 12 mts long) in the first floor of the Buenos Aires National Library.