Take a drive around Los Angeles and you will see at least one wall mural throughout your city drive. Elaborate and colorful, or dark and ominous covering the wall of either a business or building. Amazing works have been known to present themselves on buildings, businesses, forgotten walls across the city surprising people with their vibrant colors and rich history. They bringing meaning and make a connection to others prompting debate and open discourse of opinions and knowledge that could never be achieved through a blank wall, duh. Many of the murals in the blog links below were found by Vermont Street and in La Placita of Los Angeles. The roots of the Aztecs in these murals are in deep connection to the Mexican-American Angelino community standing for its folklore legends and history that are important throughout the Mexican community. It’s the past, present and future; a million words told in an image.

Wall murals have long been present in the history of Los Angeles being an essential to the community depicting important events that have built the city, such as Teachalakazi’s first phase of the Battle of Los Angeles in La Placita. Today La Placita is crowned as one of Southern California’s most important landmarks considering the beginnings of Los Angeles, it’s atmosphere, wall murals, architecture, restaurants and churches bring many people to dine and relax in a very historic and culturally abundant part of Los Angeles.

These three wall murals take you through a glimpse of the arts done in Los Angeles and their possible meaning:

Wall Murals: The Welcomed Duality of Life and Death and the Importance of Animals (Part 1 of 3)

Legends in Murals and their Origins (Part 2 of 3)

Wall Murals in La Placita: Revolution and the Chicano Struggles in Los Angeles (Part 3 of 3)