Painted Tortillas Open Doors for Artist: Artist Joe Bravo paints the Virgen de Guadalupe and other iconic Latino and pop culture figures on large flour tortillas.

“Joe Bravo favors flour tortillas that have the qualities of Texas: Huge, impressive and unique.

The Los íngeles resident who honed his political views during the Chicano Movement and the Vietnam War savors the tortillas the way Da Vinci would eye a canvas, Michel-angelo would see a slab of granite or Scorcese would see a script: A vehicle with which to project art.

Bravo doesn’t eat the tortillas ”” at least not these monstrous ones produced by Tortillerí San Marcos at $15 a dozen. He paints on them. Anything from a relaxing pit bull to the Virgen de Guadalupe the most popular tortilla art with eight images thus far. From Mexican icons like La Doña Marí Félix to noted revolutionists like Ché Guevara. From hulking luchadores to a menacing Mayan warrior.”

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