Papers On Barbara Carreco

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

When she was one year old her family moved to Los Angeles. In an oral interview, conducted in 1999 by Jeffrey Rangel for the Archives of American Art, Barbara Carrasco said that she remembers being poor and living off food stamps. They lived in government veteran housing in Culver City, her dad was a Korean World War II veteran.(Revision history statistics "Barbara Carrasco" 2017) Carrasco childhood was sometimes painful, she lived in a community mixed with Mexican-American and African-Americans. She was often teased by being light-skinned and having green eyes. She was referred to as La guera, meaning white girl. (Revision history statistics "Barbara Carrasco" 2017) She was perceived as being not truly a Mexican-American by her peers. Carrasco was often told by her peers to “take advantage of her light skinned” and that her struggles were not the same as a brown skin Mexican American. These comments, later inspired Carrasco and takes part of her artistic focus of attention. Carrasco graduated from UCLA, she was the first person in her family to graduate from college.She received her BFA in art from UCLA in 1978. (Revision history statistics "Barbara Carrasco" 2017)At UCLA, she was the first woman editor of the campus Chicano newspaper, La Gente. ("Oral history interview with Barbara Carrasco, 1999 April 13-26" 2017) Carrasco was also one of the first artists to join with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers (UFW) movement. A

It was astonished by the mural’s size and colors. I got a pamphlet of what each of the scenes were depicted. Some of my favorite scenes were, Native hunting and gathering, the Last battle between Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans in the Mexican-American war, because it depicts Mexico’s independence from Spain. The image of Biddy Mason, last slave in Los Angeles that who turned into a real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist, the Great Depression scenes, the whitewashing of America Tropical, a mural that was created by David Alfaro Siqueiros, at Olvera Street, lastly the scene that got me emotional me was the Japanese incarceration. This scene was a reminder of the Mexicans incarceration that happened during 1771-1965. By looking at these scenes I could understand why the Community Redevelopment Agency wanted this Mural censored. A few of these images even though are true, they are troubling due to their true depictions of marginalized communities. They want to keep individuals away from the truth. For example, some may argue that the Japanese don’t want to be reminded of such negative part of their history. But I think being reminded of the bad times keeps individuals conscious of the cruel reality. By knowing the truth we can all work together to prevent from history repeating