Guadalupe Angeles: Public Art in Olympic Blvd

April 11, 2026 

Guadalupe Angeles

 Art 3170 

Professor Aziz

                                                                       Phase 1: The site

The art is located in El Congreso de Artistas Cósmicos de Las Américas de San Diego in Estrada Courts. 3217 E Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023. I choose this art because I see this art when I pass by and it gets my attention on what it means. I saw this art is important because of what I read and it stuck to me that the person who created this art is trying to say that about an environment that is politically and socially conscious.



                                                                            Phase 2: Field Work

 This art has been there for some time and the last time I was in the area it was still there. A man called Mario Torero, with help from Zade, El Líon, and Rocky created the art. By honoring Che Guevara, a revolutionary from Latin America. It started when The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles funded Mario Torero and Carmen Kalo to rework the mural in 1995. Ernesto de la Loza helped them. This art means that the contentious conflict about how New Mexico history should be portrayed is reminiscent of discussions that initially emerged during the mural movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This has started with the growth in Chicano activism as a number of Mexican-American barrios from El Paso to Los Angeles. A Historian called Ben Keppel, he describes that the early murals are called as "part of a quite passionate public debate about questions pressing hard upon the present" in the Holly Barnet-Sanchez, a professor at the University of New Mexico, and Tim Drescher's new book named Give Me Life: Iconography and Identity in East LA Murals. However, this pressure also made it necessary to confront the aspects of the past that gave rise to current injustice.








                                                                    Phase 3: Critical Analysis

This artwork is based on Chicano Mural. Many people have learned about read or learn about Chicano mural and now they should know that this art is important to the community. This art means about encouraging cultural pride, political unity, and empowerment. By seeing the art the people will think that Mexican-Americans are a strong and independent group rather than a lower-class minority, it contests their marginalization. The people who paint came from San Diego's Chicano Park movement.







                                                                         Phase 4: Proposal

 When I see this art, it reminds me that by reminding viewers that identity is shaped by communal strength rather than labels imposed by society, the painting transforms public space into a political statement. Also, the wall becomes a demand for visibility and self-determination because of the mural's direct stare and pointing motion, which draw the viewer into the conflict. This is a beautiful art with others that are connected to this art piece and it means a lot to people who, I hope this art with other arts are still up in the future so people will know the meaning behind the art pieces.




                                                                                   Work Cite:

Bella, Sarah. | The Art of Mario Torero. https://mariotorero.art/1244-2/. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
Boyle, Molly. “The Writing’s on the Wall: Iconography and Identity in East Los Angeles Murals.” Santa Fe New Mexican, 17 Mar. 2017, https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/the-writings-on-the-wall-iconography-and-identity-in-east-los-angeles-murals/article_b33c255d-5616-5ce4-b2bb-68d22230d929.html.
“Street Art Writes New Rules on Urban Linguistics.” PBS SoCal, 12 July 2013, https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/street-art-writes-new-rules-on-urban-linguistics.
We Are Not A Minority | Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles. https://www.themcla.org/murals/we-are-not-minority. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.


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