Monday, January 9, 2012
The Chicano Park murals have stood beneath Interstate 5 since the 1970s, the product of successful protests against the barren urban concrete that replaced a stretch of neighborhood.
Now, several of the original painters have returned to touch up and remake some of the more than 50 murals, which memorialize and celebrate Mexican-American life and culture.
The famed park could end up looking significantly brighter and more modern. In one mural, for example, old scrawling text has been replaced by a contemporary tattoo font.
"It's a complicated thing to invite artists with four more decades of experience under their belts to revisit work they made in their youth," Kelly Bennett writes. "Should the artist just repaint the same lines he painted in the 1970s, or bring to the table new techniques, new colors?"
Check out the full story, which has big, bright photos and video.
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