Otis College of Art and Design Essays

Born in 1941 in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Frank Romero holds a special place amongst the many greats of the Hispanic community of the United States. Of Mexican heritage, Romero expressed an early aspiration for the work of art and was inspired to take the path towards becoming one of the most influential, instrumental and renowned artists of his time. Romero was closely attached to his rich Hispanic heritage and gained much inspiration from his culture and his surroundings of Los Angeles, a city

Based on the mural image "Going to the Olympics" by Frank Romero 's he was paid to create a work of art in the Los Angles free way. In my opinion I think its a work of art because this is a mural image and the time it and pride it took makes it a work of art.The time and the paint it must have taken to make this image its very impressive. I can see the culture and creativity they are trying to show. They graffiti in LA show what Los Angeles is all about and based on my personal experience each time

their art work. Frank Romero is an American Chicano artist, who created the master piece of The Death of Ruben Salazar. Through Romero’s painting we see how Ruben Salazar’s death occurred and the historical event behind it and the impact it, had in the East Los Angeles Community. In Romero’s art work, he calls attention and the injustice of “police brutality.”  In 1941, Frank Romero was born and raised in East Los Angeles. While attending High School Romero got offered a scholarship to Otis Art

Frank Romero as an Extraordinary Chicano Artist During the 1960’s and 1970’s an influential event known as the Chicano Art Movement emerged as a consequence of the conditions the country was facing at the time. Chicano art developed at the same time the Chicano Art Movement was emerging in the 1960’s. Art was employed as a way of mass communication through the Chicano Movement which took effect at the United States-Mexico Border during those years. There were not that many sources to spread messages