Decay Dance 1969

Rupert Garcia's serigraph, "Decay Dance" is a riot of color: the hat is blue, the background red, and the face is yellow! When Garcia made this, maybe he felt like a DJ, sampling and remixing different parts of art history. Here's a dash of Pop Art's bold flatness, a sprinkle of social commentary, and a whole lot of graphic punch. The way the colors are laid down, so solid and unapologetic, reminds me of Warhol, but with a Chicano twist. It's like Garcia's saying, "Yeah, I see what's been done, and now I'm gonna do it my way." It's a statement, a conversation, and a total visual jam session all rolled into one. And that, my friends, is how art keeps evolving, one dance step at a time.