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ARTIST: Mark Vallen

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Mark Vallen. “Nuclear War?!… There Goes My Career!” (1980)

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"La Causa" (The Cause), 2011 "This is one of two paintings I created especially for ¡ADELANTE!, an exhibit of Chicano art at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California. La Causa is a portrait of militants from the Brown Beret organization, a Chicano group that gained notoriety in the late 1960s for struggling to advance the civil and human rights of Mexican-Americans. The Chicano Moratorium march againt the Vietnam War took place in East Los Angeles on August 29, 1970, and was partly organized by the Brown Berets. The group originally organized in East L.A. in 1967 as an outgrowth of the burgeoning Chicano civil rights movement. In 1968 the group organized the first student walkouts to protest racism and substandard schools in East L.A., electrifying an entire generation. Soon Brown Beret chapters sprang up throughout California, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, and beyond - but it all started in the city of Los Angeles. Some 30,000 people took part in the 1970 moratorium march, which culminated in a rally at Laguna Park; dozens of Brown Berets acted as marshals, providing security for the protest. The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department attacked the gathering, initiating a riot. Ultimately police killed four citizens that day, Lyn Ward, José Diaz (both Brown Berets), Gustav Montag, and L.A. Times reporter Rubén Salazar. Salazar was slain as he sat in the Silver Dollar Café; a deputy sheriff fired a tear gas projectile into the cafe, striking Salazar in the head and killing him instantly." Artist: Mark Vallen

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🎶"LET'S HAVE A WAR! SO, YOU CAN GO DIE!"💢

PICS INFO: Spotlight on a silkscreen print titled "Nuclear War?! ... There Goes My Career!," addressing the heightened probability of mutual nuclear annihilation in the 1980s, artwork by Mark Vallen, c. 1980. 15" x 16" inches -- SOLD OUT.

PIC #2: "Nuclear War?! ... There Goes My Career!", with different resolution and color grading.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

MARK VALLEN: "In 1980 I created this silkscreen street poster which also ran as a front cover for the "LA WEEKLY" newspaper. It was a time when people were seriously wondering if nuclear war would break out between the Soviet Union and the United States. My artwork struck a cord with people and proved to be incredibly popular."

Vallen's poster was included in "The Path of Resistance," an exhibit of contemporary protest art held at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Organized by Joshua Siegel and Susan Kismaric, the exhibit traced 40 years of socially critical and politically charged art."

-- ART-FOR-A-CHANGE (Mark Vallen blogspot)

Sources: www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraphics/15179954706, Art-for-a-Change (blogspot), various, etc...