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Vallen's art is included in this collection of anti Iraq war posters.
Vallen's art is included is this collection of Chicano posters.
This sitemap points to various exhibits within the Art For A Change website.
All content created and written by artist Mark Vallen.
VALLEN'S ESSAYS ON ART: CRITICISM - THEORY - REVIEWS
Salvador Dalí - Avida Dollars
(Feb. 2005)
The Ballot and the Palette
(Nov. 2004)
Why all art is political
(Oct. 2004)
On the death of Johnny Ramone
(Sept 2004)
Leaving the 21st Century
(July 2002)
MORE THAN A WITNESS
Vallen's
30 year retrospective exhibit
held July - August 2004 at the A Shenere Velt Gallery in Los Angeles.
ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS
PORTRAIT OF MEXICO TODAY
AN ALLE KUNSTLER!
STUCKISM
A mural from Mexican muralist
David Alfaro Siqueiros
on
display in Santa Monica.
One of the largest online
exhibitions of
German Expressionist
art from the late 1930's.
The
re-modernist revolution
in painting takes on the
post modern art establishent.
ART-SUPPLY STORES & ART RESOURCES
FAVORITE ART STORES
This is a list of
art suppliers Vallen
recommends to art professionals
ACTIVIST ART AND ARTISTS
JUST ANOTHER POSTER?
GUERNICA CENSORED
ALBERTO KORDA
Vallen
was included in this historic
exhibit of
Chicano Posters
from
the 60's to the present.
Pablo Picasso's
famous
antiwar mural censored at the
U.N. Security Council.
The Cuban Photographer
who took the world famous
photo of
Che Guevara
.
NAGASAKI NIGHTMARE
PALESTINIAN CARTOONIST
NO PASARAN
The paintings and drawings
of the
Hibakusha
(Japanese Atom
Bomb Survivors).
The poison pen of
the late Palestinian
cartoonist,
Naji Al-Ali
.
Exhibit and essay concerning
the posters of the
Spanish Civil War
.
DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE!
THE WAR IS FINISHED
ILLUMINATING CONTRADICTIONS
Posters from the
Paris
1968
uprising by
students and workers.
An antiwar poster's
role in undermining the
Soviet
occupation of Afghanistan
.
The public art slide projections
of Polish artist,
Krzysztof Wodiczko
.
SHOCK BATTALION
PUNK ROCK FLYERS FROM 1977 LA
EARLY PUNK ALBUM COVERS
A history of the
original
guerilla poster artists
of 1980's Los Angeles.
The LA punk rock scene
of the 70's created a unique form
of visual communication.
Punk had a wild aesthetic.
The impulse to outrage was
apparent on album covers.
SLASH: THE MANIFESTO OF ANGRY REFUSAL
VIETNAM! VIETNAM!
A celebration of the first punk
publication in Los Angeles, Slash Magazine.
Original covers & editorials by Claude Bessy.
Vallen's essay on the 30th anniversary
of the end of the Vietnam War. The role
of the artist in ending America's longest war.
Purchase Vallen's Poster
"NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL"
Bilingual Offset Poster
19" x 22" inches - $5.00
First published in 1988,
republished Aug. 2010.
Click here to buy
the poster!
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