Summary Of Romero's 'Going To The Olympics'

In the mural by Frank Romero named "Going to the Olympics" there are many things that represent Los Angeles in this image and I feel like there are several positive things and symbols in this image that represent Los Angeles in a good way. What I see in the image is cars, palm trees, hearts, a horse, a blimp that says "A GOODYEAR," two people fighting or wrestling, an old picture of two people and an iron. The cars represent Los Angeles, since many people use cars and it also represents traffic in Los Angeles, the palm trees represent California and it 's roads as there are many palm trees through out the roads of Los Angeles and California. The meaning for the hearts could mean that Los Angeles is colorful and vibrant as that 's how the hearts are represented, the horse would represent the horse races that take place, the "GOODYEAR" blimp represents how we having many blimps going across the Los Angles skies every now and then, and the people wresting would

What happened to Frank Romero 's "Going to the Olympics, 1984" upon the decades after the mural was finished was very tragic but I believe it was inevitable for others to tag over the mural. An image from 2009 shows the mural in a rough shape, the bottom half of the mural got completely ruined by people tagging over the mural and spraying graffiti over it as well. Romero 's response to this fiasco was interesting, he sued Caltrans "the state agency that owns L.A. 's 70 freeway murals," because of the people who painted over his mural. What the people of Los Angles thought of this is interesting as well, as Judith Baca "a mural artist and activist" stated "artists are starting to stand up and say, `Enough is enough. ' We 're in a terrible situation, losing work after work." Besides Baca 's thoughts, some people saw this situation as it 's good that Romero 's fighting for something he worked hard on and that it 's a shame that people had to tag over the instructive mural that was made to coincide with the