los angeles murals | Chicano Mural Art

 Chicano artists have created a bi-cultural style that includes both American and Mexican influences.

 The Chicano Art Movement, as it came to be known has its origins at start of the early 1930’s with well known painters Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, and David Siqueiros all native Mexican mural painters los angeles artists whose artistic motivations lay with post Mexican revolution ideologies, and Marxist as well as mythological depictions of the Mexican revolution.

In the hilly neighborhood of Highland Park in the city of Los Angeles amidst supermarkets and hair salons one will quickly find themselves surrounded by a plethora of colorful, vibrant and lively murals. Cultural figures such as La Virgin de Guadalupe, the Aztec leader Montezuma combined with struggling field laborers and low riders with purple cars compose the majority of these wall length paintings.