Judith Baca's The Great Wall Of Los Angeles

Throughout these many years, I am born during the year that claims me to be a millennial child; a millennial is someone who is approximately born around early 1980s to early 2000s. I have experienced the uprising of technology, diversity, and the exploration of art for the masses. As an art major I have been to various galleries and seen various arts through media and the affects it has on consumerism. However, this discussion draws my attention to The Great Wall of Los Angeles in relation to Judith Baca’s work on it. Made during the summers in the late 1970s and finishing around early 1980s ; it was a project that most likely will not have an ending and will continue to be a project passed down to the youths and artists of the future. I want to further search and put together the understanding of how Baca’s project is not just any kind of art mural. I have gathered an analysis towards the Great Wall and its major affects from being a mural in the Tujunga flood control channel of Los Angeles; along with the message it portrays to the public and its environment. Born and mostly raised in Los Angeles I have grown to see how much Los Angeles has changed to this date. I have also become more aware and knowledgeable about how our environment …show more content…
In addition, their political struggle and expression through art helps their community move into better futures; because of the pride and strengthening of cultural identity. The Great Wall is only ten minutes away from me. I have seen and passed by it many times. The mural by Judith F. Baca started something that depicts the unity of a community, the pride and struggles for Chicanos living in an Anglo-American society, and the education one can attain from a painting on the wall. The mural is not just there for display; instead it takes on an environment and creates it into a site where everyone can connect and visually study the efforts and history amongst the