Going To The Olympics Analysis

In the painting "Going to the Olympics" by Frank Romero, you can see how Romero expressed L.A.'s love for their cars by showing hearts over the cars, you can also tell how he uses vibrant colors instead of dull colors. You also see that he painted palm tress and in L.A everywhere you go you are more likely to see palm tress, also in the background you see mountains and we are mostly surrounded by mountains here. In the painting you see 5 objects in the sky above the palm trees, you see things like the goodyear blimp, a horse to signify horse racing, two people wrestling, a stamp, and an iron. I get the meaning of most of theses symbols in the painting but the one symbol i don't get is the iron.

I think Romero might think that people who live …show more content…
Just like John Wehrle's painting "Galileo, Jupiter, Apollo", his painting was 207-foot long and it went on to be covered with graffiti. It seems like taggers had no respect for other artists paintings, they defaced most of the paintings on the Hollywood freeway. i also think that taggers think their work is "art" and that their work is good enough to be on the freeway just like the rest of the famous paintings.

I think Romero's response to the destrution of his artwork was in place, i mean would you like to go see your artwork that the city asked you to paint covered by grey paint. He was also not notified that the city would be painting over his artwork. By law the artists must be notified to be able to save his artwork or moving it someplace else before they can removed them, Romero had every right to sue Caltrans.

In conclusion, taggers have a huge impact on the artists artwork they can have their artwork be removed by the city. The artists spend so much time in making art for the people who live in L.A., they shouldn't be able to go see their art defaced by graffiti or being removed by the city because someone decided to tag on their