Would you like Jesus on your Tortilla?: Joe Bravo redefines Chicano Art
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"Bravo, 57, admits that he never consciously set out to do anything avant garde. the early 1970s, he was a starving art student at the University of California, Northridge. 'I didn't have the money to buy canvas,' he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. 'I was looking at some tortillas in my kitchen and was just tripping on the textures.' So Bravo painted five tortillas with Mayan codexes and hung them as a mobile in a school exhibition..."
"Bravo, 57, admits that he never consciously set out to do anything avant garde. the early 1970s, he was a starving art student at the University of California, Northridge. 'I didn't have the money to buy canvas,' he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. 'I was looking at some tortillas in my kitchen and was just tripping on the textures.' So Bravo painted five tortillas with Mayan codexes and hung them as a mobile in a school exhibition..."
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REEL_KNOX
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How can I meet this man, and interview him for my show on www.krazetv.com???
ReeL KnoX
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joshuaheller
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More of his paintings.
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