‘History is Myth', proclaims this mural from the mid-1990s. Officially the mural was called, ‘Venice Reconstituted' and was painted in 1989. The full mural (this is full height but only about half width) was 21 ft high by 100 ft long. Painted by renowned muralist Rip Cronk with assistants: Juan Burgueno Jr, Elizabeth Tenchavez, Bruce Smith, Dimitree Kadiev and Mishell Caldwell, it was located at Speedway and Windward Ave., Venice – a few blocks north of Muscle Beach. Despite being refreshed over the years, the taggers kept defacing it so now there's a somewhat inferior version higher on the wall of this building and at street level, where this image was, is just a plain coat of paint that I assume is refreshed periodically to erase the tags. The ‘No Parking' sign remains, though. One of the things I really like in this mural is that the building it was painted on is actually in the mural. Behind the roller-skating Venus is a building with a yellow mural on it's ground floor. That's a rendering of the building that Reconstituted Venice was painted on, taking the place of that yellow mural.
History is Myth mural (Venice Reconstituted) Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
