Barbara Carrasco, The History Of Los Angeles: A Mexican Perspective?

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Barbara Carrasco is an artist and muralist based in Los Angeles. Her works range from pen and ink drawings, to paintings, to posters and countless murals. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Barbara Carrasco is considered to be a renegade feminist. Her art is known for critiquing, dominant cultural stereotypes involving socioeconomic, race, gender and sexuality.(Revision history statistics "Barbara Carrasco" 2017)She is known for bringing awareness to the Chicano art movement and their sexist attitudes sometimes seen in Chicano art. Barbara Carrasco works in advocating to change treatment of women. I decided to do my research paper because I believe that there's a difference between how a Chicano depicts and paint images and how a Chicana depicts and paints images. As a Latina woman, learning about Barbara Carrasco …show more content…

It took eight months to complete this mural and was created for the LA. Bicentennial at the time was then not shown. It was given a temporary display at the 1990 LA festival. This mural contains 51 scenes depicting a chronological history of Los Angeles emphasizes the experience of marginalized groups. It captures the city of the original native inhabitants through the 50th century, including her younger sister image. Artist Barbara Carrasco based the mural’s main figure, of her sister Frances. ("LA History" 2017) The figure represents a mythical queen of Los Angeles, this queen was inspired by one of the city’s first names. El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula. The mural L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective depicts images from the Incarceration of Japanese American during the WII to the zoot suit riots, all unfolding of the Reina’s strands of hair. LA Reina carries our history of Mexican-American on her strands of hair, our failures and our triumphs. La Reina is not ashamed of the truth of our history, she is well aware of

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