Going To The Olympics 1984 Frank Romero Analysis

In the mural of "Going to the Olympics, 1984" by Frank Romero, it shows drawings of five cars especially all different colors and it seems that the picture can be referring to the beach, near the cars there are trees and hearts drawn. It also shows on the background a horse, a blimp, two man wrestling and an iron. The cars and the trees can possibly mean life in LA especially at the beach. The background doesn't really have any meaning or at least any obvious meanings and the placements doesn't really matter once so ever, one conclusion that i have thought of for the meaning of the horse is about the time cars didn't exist and people had to use horses to go around to places.

According to the image , it seems that Romero's opinion about the cars in LA is that they love to cruise around due to the hearts over the cars. The colors and shapes of the mural creates a positive mood because of the bright colors that have been chosen.The colors give a positive mood because they all have one thing in common and that is that they are all bright colors, for example if the colors were black and white or black and gray, it will give a negative mood. The shapes in the mural gives it an overlook compared to a mural that is only drawn stick figures. …show more content…
Not so long from when Romero created his masterpiece in Hollywood Freeway Downtown, he found out that taggers have tagged over his mural in 2009, so he decided to sue the city. It seemed that the people of the city didn't really care about the mural, matter of fact they didn't even care if it was tagged over. So the city decided so take a big step towards the situation and removed the mural in