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East Los Streetscapers grew out of the Chicano Mural Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, [1] a strand of muralism that "began as an arm of struggle of claiming urban space" [2] for Chicanos. It was founded by Wayne Alaniz Healy and David Rivas Botello in 1975.
Willie F. Herrón III (born 1951, Los Angeles, California) is an American Chicano muralist, performance artist and commercial artist. Herrón was also one of the founding members of ASCO, the East Los Angeles based Chicano artists collective (1972 to 1987).
Asco was an East Los Angeles based Chicano artist collective, active from 1972 to 1987. Asco adopted its name as a collective in 1973, making a direct reference to the word's significance in Spanish ("asco"), which is disgust or repulsion.
In particular, murals in Los Angeles have been influenced by the Chicano art movement and the culture of Los Angeles. [ 7 ] [ 13 ] Murals are considered a distinctive form of public art in Los Angeles , often associated with street art , billboards , and contemporary graffiti .
Estrada Courts is well known for its murals, which reflect the barrio culture and traditions of the area. “Chicano murals look the way they do, because the authors concentrate not only on individual murals but on mural clusters and establish a dialogic interplay of form, content, and location among them".
Judithe Hernández (born 1948) [3] is an American artist and educator, she is known as a muralist, pastel artist, and painter. [4] She is a pioneer of the Chicano art movement and a former member of the art collective Los Four. [5]
In 1977, Botello collaborated with Wayne Healy as The East Los Angeles Streetscapers on La Familia as part of a five panel series named Chicano Time Trip. The mural depicts a Chicanx family with one boy and one girl as they struggle to find their identity as Mexican-Americans in a world full of whiteness. [13] It is located in Lincoln Heights ...
Judithe Hernández had become acquainted with Carlos Almaraz when they attended graduate school at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and he introduced her to the group. [3] [4] With the addition of Judithe Hernández, Los Four became one of only two major Chicano artist collectives to include a woman, the other being ASCO (Willie Herron, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Gronk, and Patssi Valdez).