The mural "Going to The Olympics, 1984" by Frank Romero, was made in 1984 and put in Hollywood Freeway (101) North between Alameda and San Pedro St. to symbolize his historic point of view of going to the Olympics. The picture had five cars in the order of the color of the Olympics rings from left to right, a blimp with the writing "A GOODYEAR" on it, an iron, two silhouettes of people fighting, a horse, a stamp, five hearts on top of each car, and four palm trees. The mural has been mostly painted with the three primary colors, which are red, yellow, and blue. I believe that everything on this picture has a symbolic message of the journey to the Olympics or activities that most likely happen in one.
Based on Mr. Romero's perspective, by the mural, it shows us that by his choice of colors and looks of the cars tells us that back then there wasn't really a giant variety of cars. Even though there wasn't much cars to choose he still portrays the cars very …show more content…
At the same time when the graffiti was painted over the mural the economy has boomed and having the state set aside more than $1.5 billion dollars just to restore the dozens of freeway murals in Los Angeles. As you can assume the artists were devastated over what has happened to their murals. Based on the three articles that we read to help us explain the many problems with the defacing of the murals, it tells us that how many people have reacted to that problem. A man who owns one the freeways, who lets artists pain murals for the freeways, said, "After spending so many hours and days and several thousand if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair these, still vandals again attack and defaced these murals." It shows that even though these murals can be made for an exceptional reason, many artists will still "express" there art over the mural which is fine with them but for others it's a horrible location to place their type of
Based on Mr. Romero's perspective, by the mural, it shows us that by his choice of colors and looks of the cars tells us that back then there wasn't really a giant variety of cars. Even though there wasn't much cars to choose he still portrays the cars very …show more content…
At the same time when the graffiti was painted over the mural the economy has boomed and having the state set aside more than $1.5 billion dollars just to restore the dozens of freeway murals in Los Angeles. As you can assume the artists were devastated over what has happened to their murals. Based on the three articles that we read to help us explain the many problems with the defacing of the murals, it tells us that how many people have reacted to that problem. A man who owns one the freeways, who lets artists pain murals for the freeways, said, "After spending so many hours and days and several thousand if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair these, still vandals again attack and defaced these murals." It shows that even though these murals can be made for an exceptional reason, many artists will still "express" there art over the mural which is fine with them but for others it's a horrible location to place their type of