Scattered around the East Village and the Lower Eastside are the works of Chico, famed, yet mysterious muralist. Looking at this piece, you can feel the raw tension between Art and Society. The paint captures the struggle of both the artist and the subjects to come to grips with the constraints of the world juxtiposed with their need to create. Aventura is uniform in black collars, but divided in shirts. Like many youth, they suffer the paradox of wanting to fit in while simulataneously desiring to assert their own uniqueness. This torrent of emotion can only be captured by spray paint on crumbling brick to truly be "Live." 
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Mural = Art?
Scattered around the East Village and the Lower Eastside are the works of Chico, famed, yet mysterious muralist. Looking at this piece, you can feel the raw tension between Art and Society. The paint captures the struggle of both the artist and the subjects to come to grips with the constraints of the world juxtiposed with their need to create. Aventura is uniform in black collars, but divided in shirts. Like many youth, they suffer the paradox of wanting to fit in while simulataneously desiring to assert their own uniqueness. This torrent of emotion can only be captured by spray paint on crumbling brick to truly be "Live."
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