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MURAL MURALS
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Edited by
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The Visitor
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Directed and Narrated by
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In California
you can go see friends
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and enjoy the finest
of all grasses.
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In Los Angeles you can see angels
walking on the Pacific waters,
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but they're really just
blond guys on surfboards.
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You can visit
the big Hollywood studios
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and really see the movie stars.
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As for me, in Los Angeles
I mostly saw walls —
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graffiti-covered walls
as beautiful as paintings,
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signed by dozens of anonymous Kilroys,
walls long as mythic serpents.
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This was the beginning
of a surprising and joyful disco very -
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the painted walls,
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or “murals, ”
as they call them in the U.S.
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Murals as living,
breathing, seething walls.
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Murals as talking,
wailing, murmuring walls.
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Murals — one cries out,
the other doesn't.
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But these walls
don't sell you anything.
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A billboard —
an enormous advertising panel —
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has to be well placed, smiling,
and made up to the hilt.
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It's not a mural.
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That's obvious
as soon as you arrive.
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From the landing strip
to the freeway,
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sometimes in a traffic jam
you spot a mural.
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It's often badly placed,
unsmiling, un-made up.
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Suddenly a face in close-up,
with an insistent gaze.
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What should I call them,
these residents of the L.A. walls?
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“Los Angelenos”?
“Losangelics”?
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Or else...
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“Los angels in aspic”?
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“Los ugly losers”?
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“The lousy jealous
of Los Angeles”?
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In any case, as if the city
were only murals and palm trees,
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I drove 35 miles
from Los Angel-east
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to the ocean in Los Angel-west.
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Whether collective daydreams
or personal visions,
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the walls tell
of a city and its people.
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It's a recent
and widespread phenomenon,
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although the Mexican tradition goes back
to Orozco, Siqueiros, Ribera.
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Is it a result of the '60s?
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The flower children
who sought to beautify life?
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The people of '68 who wrote
their protests on the walls,
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and the artists disgusted
by the gallery system
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and the collectors' art market?
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Is it a primal need to display
private life in the public square?
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For all these reasons and more,
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murals have flourished everywhere.
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In Los Angeles, there are lots,
in very particular styles.
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The fall of Icarus is quite a story.
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As told by John Wehrle,
a stranger to the city,
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who told me on the phone,
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"Los Angeles is a city
planted in the desed
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and under-populated with angels.
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I see it as a collision
of different mythologies
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in a drive-in, ride-in, fly-in...
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a surrealist get-together
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between an angel,
a cowboy, and an astronaut.”
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The cosmonaut fell through the air.
Lay the blame on Voltaire.
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Icarus fell to the flows.
Lay the blame on Rousseau.
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As for the fall,
it plays out every day
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on the Venice roller stage.
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Venice is a mix
between Fire Island
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and Greenwich Village.
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It attracts artists and tourists,
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dopers and gropers,
movers and shakers,
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and French image makers.
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In Venice,
it's calm on a weekday.
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You have to come on Sunday.
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Everyone comes
to pick up girls, to swim,
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to roller-skate,
to see the murals back there
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and over there.
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I shoot a lot of pictures of the murals.
I use them as backgrounds.
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I put people in front —
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roller skaters.
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In fact,
“Frenglishman” Richard Bennett
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does roller skaters only,
with mural backgrounds only,
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just as we 're doing
to a disco beat.
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Authorities demolished
the top half of a wall
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called Life in Venice
to better monitor drug traffic.
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The state and its officers,
disguised as beachgoers,
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have their own reasons
for ignoring collective art,
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especially when they can get
a free snort.
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Richard lent us the missing heads.
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Then we left the din of Venice...
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for the silence
of Kent Twitchell's studio.
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Like Alice herself,
Kent finds his way
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among the very large
and the very small.
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I saw him grow tall and shrink small
during our Torrance interviews.
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We hadn't predicted
the fanfare of a local parade.
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So our artists, in both their giant
and miniature perspectives,
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were honored by the cavalry,
the marines, and the army.
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Nor had we predicted
the children weaving in and out
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like a flight of swallows
in the fading daylight
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by the pale mural of Opal Way.
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And then there's the night.
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The street kids pass by it all —
the world of drugs...
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of motionless voyeurs...
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of little birds and flying fish.
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At St. Elmo's,
a black village within the city,
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“black” means “colored. ”
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On this June Sunday,
there's a festival
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organized by the Sykes brothers,
the village painters.
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Roderick Sykes is here
with Susan Jackson.
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Compton,
a black community near Watts.
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The people Richard Wyatt knows
and paints aren't white, in any case.
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They're black, yellow,
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and burnt sienna.
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As for the pyramids that inspire him,
they reappear
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as stairways in immigrant
neighborhoods without elevators.
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As a gesture in kind
to this black American
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who paints images of Mexicans,
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a Mexican American, or 'Chicano, ”
sings in the black blues tradition.
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Manuel Cruz,
former member of the Macy gang,
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conveys through the blues
the misery and pride of la raza
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in front of a bar he painted.
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- What's your name?
- Juliet.
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Topo, Flaco, Indio, Lobo, Tita —
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the homeboys and homegirls
are gang members.
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There are 300 gangs in Los Angeles,
15 of them in East L.A.
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Each has its own name,
logo, and sign
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related to its neighborhood,
the barrio with a V —
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here, “Varrio” Nuevo
East Los Angeles,
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Happy Valley,
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Hazard Grande.
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And so emerged a series of murals
dedicated to their dead.
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When I tried to find out
why these kids
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looked like adult dudes
and chicks from the '50s,
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A tattoo gave me the answer.
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Drawn in a jail
some 25 years ago,
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and copied from a photograph of
Jean Harlow pressed up against a man,
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this same couple ls still used as a model
to represent young people of the '80s.
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War games begin in childhood
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among the dragons and skeletons.
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The skeleton is the pepper
of the Mexican imagination...
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whereas education
is as necessary as salt,
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and an educated woman is priceless.
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A rose-colored graduate.
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Of course,
woman is always a rose
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in the cliché garden
of the tough guy's heart.
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Yes, he said “mural”
when he spoke of his tattoo.
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Anything decorated to express
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ideas or feelings is called a mural.
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Including cars, as we'll see.
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The word “mural” means “I exist...
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and I sign what's mine.”
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Chava is one of
the White Fence Gang members
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who worked on
the Wabash Recreation Center
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under the direction of a feminist.
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Those forgotten by history
already take up 1,500 feet,
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and it's not finished yet.
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This long, reproachful gaze
and this lengthy accusation
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tell of the exploitation
of man by man.
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As for the Women, here they are —
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at the beginning of the war...
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during the war...
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after the war...
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on strike...
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in trouble...
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and on-screen.
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The Little Tramp, the most famous
of the forgotten ones, stands guard.
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Watch out!
Painted walls have ears.
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Chaplin and McQueen
are the only superstars
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who file go! mural billing.
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After this first piece,
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Twitchell preferred cameo
and television actors.
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He magnifies the crocheted shawl,
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reinvents the white lab coat,
and sacralizes it.
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For Chicanos,
Christ is still traditional...
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and the Virgin is always from Guadalupe,
on her crescent moon.
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In Ramona Gardens,
a Chicano housing project,
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mural painting
has been organized.
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At first,
it was to prevent wall graffiti.
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The state provided money
for the residents to paint
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under artists' direction.
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From this,
a need to paint developed.
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The residents became artists,
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and that's just fine
with the artists.
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From left to right:
Willie Herrón,
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Wayne Healy, Gronk,
and Manuel Cruz.
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The local good Samaritan,
Father John Santillan,
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is a Chicano rebel.
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He can relate to children by day
and drug addicts by night.
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You hear him from afar with all his keys —
the neighborhood Zorro.
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They're called Los Streetscapers:
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Wayne Healy...
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David Botello...
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George Yepes.
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On Sunday morning,
they wash down their painting.
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That same Sunday morning,
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the Chinese are rinsed off
in the Tujunga Wash...
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while across town,
Arthur Mortimer
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soft-soaps his wife
at the beach.
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There's one mural everybody's seen who
drives down Pacific Coast Highway at 55,
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but no one can actually describe it.
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That doesn't bother the artist,
Jane Golden.
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Nostalgic for the days
of beaches before cars,
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forests before motels,
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and ocean piers before the fires
that burned them down,
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Jane Golden painted
the Santa Monica summer crowd of 1920,
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but without faces,
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ghosts of the period
when Abbot Kinney was dreaming
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of building his American Venice,
almost as beautiful as its Italian model.
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Who pays for all these murals?
For the artists?
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The paint in cans?
The ladders and vans?
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In Jane's case, there are grants.
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For others, there are organizations,
benefactors, and business people.
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I filmed one such businessman.
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He looks more like a patron
of primitive painting than a merchant.
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This is my store.
I had this mural painted.
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Piazza Navona
is one of Rome's main squares,
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where people meet,
chat, have ice cream,
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look at the sky,
talk about the weather.
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European ice cream is quite different
from American ice cream,
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especially at the “Tre Scalini”
in Rome.
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We've been quite successful.
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I'm head of
the Municipal Art Gallery,
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here in this park,
which is close...
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to this house built
by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1920.
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I'm interested in how art is used...
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as a means of communication
between people.
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There are professional artists,
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and there are artists
who create folk art.
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Many are Mexican-American.
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They wanted to paint ideas.
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They wanted to express problems
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that exist in their community.
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There are also American artists...
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who wanted...
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to bring art to the streets...
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for everyone, not just those
who go to museums.
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The advent of mural paintings...
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shows art, once again,
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as it was
during the Middle Ages.
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Art was a part of life.
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Yes, it's very nice.
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It's a beautiful painting.
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It's an impressive sight.
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Lincoln and Kennedy are neighbors
on this anti-police mural
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in another Chicano housing project
called Estrada Courts.
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Charles Felix, called Cat Felix,
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organized this collective work.
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This is Sonny here...
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with Felix the Cat,
who, when he paints,
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paints big, fearsome cats.
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In Ramona Gardens,
wild animals too have their place
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in the Garden of Eden.
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The wild environment
is present in these giant stone heads
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dominating these newlyweds
in their civilized wedding costumes.
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This is how this showy mural,
“Bride and Groom, ” came into being.
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It's a love story
Kent Twitchell lived and painted
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over five years and five stories.
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But not everything was romantic.
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He was asked to pay parking fees
for his scaffolding,
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so he had to paint at night.
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As models, he'd chosen
the bridal-shop owner himself
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and his fiancée at the time,
but she left for Hawaii and forever.
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So her fiancé remained
a lone, unmarried widower,
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left with the head of the woman
who'd taken back her heart.
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They represent, first of all...
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everything they're fighting for.
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A very busy East L.A. intersection —
the corner of Brooklyn and Soto.
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You can see
The Young Man and Death.
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The other day we saw
“the young man and the motorcycle.”
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The backdrop to this incident
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had been painted
a few days earlier by Willie Herrón,
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in a much better mood
than his self-portrait would suggest.
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On the other side
of this same drug store,
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he'd painted a subject
of an allegorical and surgical nature.
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Willie invites us to imagine a few
of the catastrophes that inspire him —
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misery. ..
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Famished cows, locusts...
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fire...
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the atomic bomb...
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and the delirious interplay
of freeway interchanges.
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The car, however,
inspires more peaceful paintings
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of moving murals
and tongue-in-cheek contrasts.
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This mecca of spirituality
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is actually the Culver City DMV,
so we haven't left
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the world of cars
and money after all.
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Judy Baca paints money —
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or rather, work and capital —
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as two monsters to be hunted down
and dragged from their caves
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for a duel in the sun.
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It's hard to know
whether capital's running after work
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or work after capital,
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just as we don't always know
whether art imitates life
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or life imitates art.
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The famous Farmer John, both boss
and logo, dominates the factory
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that makes the infamous hot dogs,
bacon, and other piggy products.
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It's the site
of an enormous mural
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called simply Pig Paradise.
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Pigs are processed
here in their final resting place,
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while the consumer
is offered this mural,
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a processed mix of decoration,
advertising, brand name,
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black humor, pretension,
and false naïveté.
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In any case,
in their public-relations pamphlets,
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where images of pork
sizzling in frying pans
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alternate with pigs romping
through bucolic meadows,
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they don't even mention
Les Grimes and Arno Jordan,
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the two artists
who each spent 12 years
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painting the walls and pipes
of this enormous slaughterhouse.
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I search in vain.
Their names don't even appear
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on the reproduction of their work.
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That's boss politics.
Pig politics.
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Painting painting everywhere.
Directly from producer to consumers -
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those who buy in markets...
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and those who consume
in restaurants.
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Not all decorators of bars
have the same propensity
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for illusion and existentialism.
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Their tastes lean towards leaning.
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And when windows of bars
and cars are crooked...
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it smacks of alcoholism...
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and neorealism.
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Before ending your days
on the road because of a drunkard,
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there are still a few good days left
to spend in the bars.
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No, this isn't Jacques Prévert's
blue-eyed gray whale
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but two gray-eyed blue whales
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swimming along
to the Chinese gymnastic slow motion
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in the waters between Beethoven Street
and Venice Boulevard.
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Here, they're at one with the wall
and the silence of the ocean.
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Here, they slow down time.
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Elsewhere, Willie Herrón
and his friends relate to time
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with the impatience of childhood
and the rage of la raza.
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They paint a whole wall in a weekend
and in vent a performance,
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put it quickly together,
make nonsense of it,
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then undo it even more quickly —
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that's the subject
and the very essence of this happening.
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Do they mean to challenge the idea
of a mural and confront the wall itself,
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or enter into the wall
and be part of it forever?
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Their group is called Asco,
which means “nausea” in Spanish.
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Everything ends up in dust and rubbish
ground up by mechanical means.
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Everything disappears,
even certain murals —
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especially in Venice,
where they're the prey
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of condo-with-a-view developers.
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They made a famous mural disappear -
Venice in the Snow —
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by building right up next to it.
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It no longer snows, except on the face
of the mime on duty...
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and the mural is visible
only to cats and rats.
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His first mural, on Brooks,
will disappear soon.
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Developers seem out to get him.
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He doesn't think much
of them either.
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He chose a huge wall near a vacant lot
for his trompe I'oeil of Venice,
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which he managed to paint
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from sky to street
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without even making a sketch.
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His space has been invaded
by a bank and its parking lot,
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and this mural may disappear entirely
behind a huge commercial complex.
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We may be looking
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at the last beautiful months
of an imaginary city.
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Californians talk about
the great earthquake all the time,
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even with their foreign friends.
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The huge fault follows a path
laid out by seismologists
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that will separate California
from the American continent.
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The furthest edges of Arizona
will become beaches,
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and California will be an island,
as in the title of this mural.
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But not a flowering
and inhabited island.
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An island of ruins and silence,
the ultimate failure of concrete.
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And this final mural,
seen here between two mail trucks,
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murmurs its message:
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The future may be a wave
that will wash us away.
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Our Thanks to the Muralists Appearing
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