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Summary Of Going To The Olympics, 1984 By Frank Romero

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In Frank Romero's painting "Going to the Olympics, 1984" There are cars waiting in traffic, palm trees, hearts above each car, Olympic Stamp, a racing horse, a blimp that says "Good Year" on it, wrestling men, and an iron. The cars in traffic symbolizes that the Olympic is such a big event that year that there were a lot of cars waiting for hours. The Olympic stamp could mean that the Olympics are being hosted. The racing horse and two wrestling men symbolize the Olympic games. The iron symbolizes In the painting "Going to the Olympics, 1984" painted by Frank Romero, the author's feelings towards our car culture in Los Angeles is that everyone uses cars to get from one place to another, In the mural it shows this because there is a line …show more content…

Romero has the right to sue them because a year before destroying Romero's mural, Kent Twitchell's portrait was destroyed which was painted on a federally owned building in downtown L.A. and won $1.1 million against the U.S government. Romero was not notified that the government will be erasing one of his most famous morals, which is not allowed to do because the artist should have been given a notice that provides for the artist to save or relocate works of public artwork before the building's owner can remove it. In 2007, Frank Romeor's mural "Going to the Olympics,1984" was restored and painted over with gray paint, the painting process was said to be placed on November 26, but was delayed due to the weather, and the restoration would take about 10 weeks. The murals "L.A. Freeway Kids" and "Luchas del Mundo" was also restored after Romero's mural. After years of graffiti and tagging on the murals of Los Angeles it has been said that this is the end of hundreds and thousands of murals in Los Angeles. The state agency that owns seventy murals Los Angeles's freeway murals, first allowed the artists to paint over the freeway walls is now restoring, and repainting over the murals due to tagging layers. The US economy spent $1.5 million in order to restore the

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