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collaboration brings artists together, communities together and if the community helps to work on it- they might take care of it better. and value it more. Community pride.

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i think it can be considered oppresive because the artwork that was made by the community to represent the neighborhood is being removed

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Most of the murals are old. They have historical value and you are painting over the art that's someone elses history and culture.

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Chicago murals is considered the birthplace of murals because Chicago has produced many art projects which CPAG has its own history of.

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Chicago creates the murals to show the good dise of the past and the bad side.

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I think whitewashing murals can be considered oppressive because they are painting over the beautiful artwork  and when people travel to Chicago the city will look plain and not unique.

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Collaborative artwork differs from artwork done by a single person in that you can see multiple styles and perspectives. I think that in many ways it can be more powerful because it allows the viewer to see a whole community´s perspective, rather than that of a singe artist.

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These artworks show historical value and represents something significant to the city and if it was taken down all the community's hard work will go to waste

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Chicago often considered the "birthplace of community murals" probably because Chicago has a lot of creative and talented people that express their history and identity by using art (murals)

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They are preserving murals because its past of an important history we went through and they do not want people hard work on the community to be lost. its oppressive to wash out murals because the murals encourage things like equality or pride and when thats taken down its like an insult to the person who created it. By washing it away you show your disagreement with the artist.

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These artworks show history, context, and representation. Its kind of like a key to the city. To take it down for aesthetic purposes washes out the humanity.

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Chicago creates murals to show the past and the future. While doing that it displays the bad and good side as well. Which makes an influence on people. Whitewashing can take a lot of history from the mural so, it's important to keep the history as it is.

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I think it´s oppressive to white wash murals because it´s like taking away the history of someone´s culture. Murals are a main way that Chicago history has been represented, especially on the South Side. Getting rid of that history would make it so a lot of people can´t find out what our city looked like in the past.

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CPAG has been preserving artworks for generations,
I felt like I just saw generations of art from the ancestors of Chicago itself.
White washing takes away the voices of people now and from the past, and might take the future's as well. Art can't save the world if we're getting rid of it, right?
But the people who made murals,
the people who saw murals, the people who lived with them around them,
They still live on. And as long as they're still around, the murals could never die out. We will preserve the murals, from this generation to the next. We'll have those murals forever, whether in this life or the next.
Art saves the world.

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Chicago is often known as the birthplace of community murals because the are so prevalent. Whitewashing murals basically takes away from the raw feeling and meaning of a mural and its oppressive in that way. CPAG has been creating and preserving murals to continue spreading messages in this city, this is a tradition and they see it as their responsibility to uphold that. Murals can differ if its created by one artist rather than a collab because if more than one people work on a mural you have to compromise on shared ideas and styles, etc. -y

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It might be considered oppressive because the art disappears, but I have painted over outdated murals after thorough documentation so that a new mural,  one with contemporary issues could be created by new students. We photographed and hung a poster of the original one next to the new one so students could always remember what was there. The school wanted something new there- because the old one was peeling and like I said, outdated. 

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It might be considered oppressive because the art disappears, but I have painted over outdated murals after thorough documentation so that a new mural,  one with contemporary issues could be created by new students. We photographed and hung a poster of the original one next to the new one so students could always remember what was there. The school wanted something new there- because the old one was peeling and like I said, outdated. 