Chicano Historic Iconic

Lynn Morán

Chicano Historic Iconic

2018

Photography

[ID: A large historical mural full of prominent Mexican and non-Mexican figures. At the top of the mural are 24 historical figures including an enlarged painting of César Chávez’s face at the middle, holding a microphone, wearing a blue collared shirt with a pin of the United Farm Workers (UFW) symbol (red background with black eagle). Below Chávez’s painting, is a painting of an indigenous sculpture of a face in green. The background colors of the left half of the mural consists of blue, purple, white, orange and red. There are houses; a person playing a guitar; people in indigenous regalia; crowds of people with brown berets; geometrical shapes with a bird inside a circle; crowds of everyday people; a Coors beer bottle with the words “CHALE CON” above it; a painting of the Virgin Mary enclosed in a square; above the Virgin Mary is a circular painting with the colors red, gold and green on the outside, in the inside it reads “Viva la Raza, LA LOGAN C/S, Chicano Power”; next to this circular painting is a crowd of people marching holding the flag of the UFW logo, Mexican flags, red flags with white wording “Si Se Puede” and flags of the Virgin Mary. The right half of the mural consists of soldiers armed with rifles; corn growing out with stems; a field with rows of crops; a large eagle in the background filled with mountains and orange-reddish, purple-blueish skies. A large painting of a soldier in a brown uniform, brown beret on a horse waving the flag colors of Mexico with a face on it. Soldier armed with bullets and a pistol. The saddle is decorated with sarape colors. On the chest of the horse a strap with wording reads “La Lucha Continua”. The mural is located in a street beside a concrete sidewalk. 2 persons chatting at the left. A parked blue vintage, rusted truck with yellow wheels and steel hubcaps.]