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RE: Mexican Murals - La Familia Burrón in the Center
Hey, @stortebeker.
I think I recognize some of these characters from being inside a Mexican shop a time or two where they sold comics. :) I don't know any of them, but i guess that's a testament to just how widespread they are, since I would have seen them in either California or Oregon.
That mural is huge, and it looks like it took a lot of man hours to produce. But visual art has always been a way to preserve history, so as long as its allowed to stay there, it can serve as a reminder of those characters and the shared behaviors and personalities that the Mexican culture shares.
I think if we spent more time on introspection, and poking fun at those idiosyncrasies we all have, we'd see a better world emerge from it.
Oh yes, it's just like with the Simpsons... even before you've seen an episode, you must have seen Bart Simpson on a T-shirt or Homer on a poster somewhere. With the burróns it's just the same. First I just saw them, then recognized them, finally I wanted to find out who these red-nosed characters were... eventually I saw a whole wall full of them!
I think this mural is going to stay for quite a while. I once wrote a post about Respected and Less Respected Paintings, and how certain murals are immune from being painted over, simply by what they depict. I think this one could be one of those. As you can see, the paint isn't the freshest either, but there is no graffiti tag on it anywhere.