Essay On Frank Romero

Frank Romero might feel inspired in how theres different cars in our city's car culture. Since theres hearts on top of each car it must mean that he likes or love how the cars are design. The artist chose happy colors and colors that go with the Olympics. He puts red meaning of love,blue and green as color of happiness. He has all type of colors in the heart.

Times, Frank Romero is suing caltrans due to their removal of his mural tilted "Going to the Olymipcs," and in my opinion he did the correct thing. Graffiti can be considered as either art or vandalism to many people and is a very common thing you will see on the streets in L.A. Whether on bus benches, on the sides of buildings, inside bathroom stalls, and even on beautifully painted murals and like it or not, graffiti will always be present in our city. "The mural had been defaced by graffiti taggers in the past, then restored by the artist." Frank Romero's work has been vandalized multiple times by taggers but, he understands that graffiti is always going to take place in our city. Due to this problem, as a solution Romero restores his mural in order to preserve his artwork, but in June, 2007 caltrans did not give him a chance to and instead painted over his mural with no notice. "The episode took place, the suit says, without Romero having been given the advance notice required under a 1980 state law protecting artists' "moral rights," the notice provides 90 days for the artist to save or relocate works of public art before a building's owner can have them removed." If my hard work was forcefully removed, I too would have sued the city because they have no right to cover someone's artwork without giving any notice and no chance to allow the artist to try and save their

In Frank Romero's painting, "Going to the Olympics" he colors the cars the color of the Olympic rings and I think Romero places a blimp, a horse, two men wrestling, an iron and a stamp above the cars because of the possible activities that occur in the tournament. I think he placed those images above the cars because that can represent what the people in the cars are thinking and wondering if they are going to happen at the Olympics. They seem as if they are on the freeway on their way to the Olympics. The placement of the hearts can be the love between the Olympics, Los Angeles, and their cars. The palm trees represent Los Angeles.

Red appears to dominate the painting and serves as an eye-catching color. The use of intensely saturated colors draws the attention to the front couple. Additionally, the red color plays with the mind of the onlooker without them thinking about it. It suggests deep passion, anger, and struggle. The artist intends to relay his feelings about the event to the viewer. His outlook consists of disgust towards the great depression that leaves many taken advantage of due to desperation.

Murals are the quintessential public art embodying the spirit of the community in which they are created. They say this is who we are, this is what we think, this is where we come from, and this is what we want, reflecting most clearly any changes in the sociopolitical environment. Murals lay out a powerful visual image of the ideology of their creators or sponsors, be it the Church during the Renaissance, government funded projects, or individuals expressing opposition. In Mexico, after the Mexican Revolution of 1917, the government commissioned a vast number of mural projects to transmit its revisionist history of the country, and celebrate the empowerment of the underclass in their recent victory. Predominate themes were cultural

As said in the article "Romero's suit... contends that sometime after June 1, 2007, a Caltrans work crew painted over his... mural... erasing it from a wall at Alameda street", usually it would not be to this reaction but Romero was given no advanced notice about his mural. It is a "moral right" for artists to have been given this notice and as said in the article "The episode took place... without Romero having been given the advanced notice required under a 1980 state law protecting artists "moral rights"." Some may say that Romero should have asked about his mural before he took action, but it was only right for him to react that way because no advanced notice was given to him. Frank Romero was justified in his actions to restore his mural because he was not notified of the action the Caltrans

     After he delt with the death of a close religious friend he experienced the loss of a close

This movie took place after graffiti had been so staunchly looked down upon. Craig Castleman supports this in his article “The Politics of Graffiti”, when he goes through

     Public art conquers so much more than the simple task of making the street a little easier to look at. It involves those who created it, those who supplied the means to create it, and those whose lives it continues to impact. Wall paintings in particular take an important role in working for a greater good. Judith F. Baca, a Hispanic-American woman and artist- activist has contributed an unaccountable amount to the mural movement in Los Angeles. She has accomplished this by giving individuals the chance to create art and develop a sense of pride, she has taught younger generations a respect for their ethnic identity, and from the many walks of life that continue to view her

The year is 1977 in El Salvador, a time of deep public and political unrest, where injustices are high among the people and there exists a great divide between the rich and the poor, it is during this time that the Vatican elevated Oscar Romero to the position of Arch Bishop of San Salvador. Romero is elevated in hopes that with his quite, passive demurer and diminishing health that he would accept the status quo and not cause a military dispute; however, much to everyone’s surprise, Romero became the voice of the poor and took a stand against the exiguous government and hostile military, which begin to target priests. Romero was passive at first, afraid of government’s hostility, but over time, he did not give up on his people and was

Color is highly evident in this painting, and helps to draw the viewer’s eye to certain places in the painting. The café is yellow, and adds a boisterous feeling to that section of the piece. The yellow light spills onto the street and walls of the town, creating bright colors and drawing the eye. The sky and town use dark colors to illustrate nighttime, although the bright spots of the stars cause the viewer to look to the sky.

Allyson Tine Theology Ms.Scaramella October 6, 2014 Justice of basic human rights is something that many of us take for granted. In the movie Romero during the El Salvador civil war many of these basics human rights and justices were taken away from the people. There were some basic rights that were kept up by the Catholic Church and some that were not. Like legal justice, in the movie the government and wealthy elite used their power in negative ways a basically gave the peoples no rights. Legal justice involves making just laws that are for the common good and help enrich the society, instead the government and elite would use them to their advantage.

I think what I like the most the murals that he painted I liked how he

As far as structures go, there was the one small square one-story building with graffiti and the brick and cement graffiti riddled canopy structures that covered approximately ten picnic tables. Graffiti was basically everywhere, yet I noticed that the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Saint of Mexico, painted on the side of the building was untouched. Not even gang sign graffiti was anywhere near it. This in itself shows respect; which makes me wonder why the youth and various residents of South Phoenix would disrespect the rest of their neighborhood by polluting it in so many ways. Perhaps it is like Tricia Rose stated, “graffiti writers…claim turf and gain local status by developing new styles” (1)

In the movie Romero, Archbishop Romero changes very much in his understanding of love and in his understanding of true conscience. At first Romero is just a priest who isn’t really concerned about the poor and how they are being oppressed, but when Romero is chosen to be the new Archbishop his friend, who is assassinated, I think has a slight impact on him. But I think when his friend is assassinated is when he really starts to realize what is happening to the country of El Salvador and how the government doesn’t want anyone to speak out about this. So, now Romero is starting to action against the government and tries to speak out against them. Here we see Archbishop Romero’s true conscience and love grow for the people around him because