Orale ese Vato
date: label: Date made
content: 1992
name: label: artist
content: Baca, Walter R.
notes: label: Description
content: As this <i>paño</i> humorously titled <i>Orale ese vato</i> (Spanish for roughly, <i>right on, man</i>) shows, one characteristic of Chicano art is that it avidly consumes and reconfigures both American and Mexican pop culture with its own slang, looks, and attitude. A paño is a hand-drawn handkerchief traditionally designed by Chicano prisoners. Like a letter that retells memories of both good and bad times, paños are often mailed as gifts to friends and loved ones. Valued as a vibrant popular art that overlaps with muralism, tattoo design, graffiti, and auto airbrushing, paños and their makers are receiving increased exposure for their visual storytelling abilities. An illustrator and a muralist known for depicting Chicano themes, Walter Baca (1947-1993) designed this paño in New Mexico in 1992.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Como lo muestra este paño con el gracioso título<i>Órale ese vato</i> , un modo de caracterizar al arte chicano es la forma en que consume ávidamente la cultura pop tanto americana como mexicana y la reconfigura con su propia jerga, perspectivas y actitudes. Un paño es un pañuelo dibujado a mano, tradicionalmente diseñado por prisioneros chicanos. Al igual que una carta en la que se recuentan memorias de tiempos idos, buenos y malos, los paños se envían a menudo como presentes a los amigos o seres queridos. Valorados como una expresión vibrante del arte popular superpuesta al muralismo, al diseño de tatuajes y a la pintura de automóviles con aerógrafos, los paños y sus creadores están recibiendo cada vez más publicidad gracias a sus habilidades visuales narrativas. Walter Baca (1947-1993), ilustrador y muralista conocido por sus representaciones de temas chicanos, diseñó este paño en Nuevo México en 1992.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Mexico, Albuquerque
title: label: Title (Spanish)
content: Orale ese Vato
topic: label: classified as
content: Popular Culture
label: depicted
content: Mickey Mouse
label: referenced
content: Latino
label: used
content: Prisons
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Mexican America
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rudy Padilla
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0150.02
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0150.02
label: accession number
content: 1993.0150
objectType: label: Object Name
content: paños
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink, pen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 cm x 41 cm; 16 9/16 in x 16 1/8 in