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nuestra lucha/Enough: The Tale of Our Struggle.41 Chicanos have drawn upon Ballis' photographs for paintings and drawings. In 1971, a large painting in red, white and green, based on the cover of Basta! appeared in a traveling Chicano exhibit in California.
Murals, Paintings, Prints. A number of Chicano artists focused on the lettuce and grape boycotts. In 1974, Carlos Almaraz did an enormous (now disintegrated) mural in Los Angeles which translated into pictorial form Chavez's statement "there is blood on the grapes". He pictured the deputy sheriffs who attacked picket lines, clubbing the strikers and occasionally causing a death, supporting huge bottles of dripping wine on their backs. Above them are skulls and grapes; below a large dollar sign. On a band above the mural is the slogan "NO COMPRE VINO GALLO" (Don't buy Gallo Wine). San Francisco artist Xavier Viramontes' striking silkscreen poster combines a rather fanciful pre-Columbian Indian holding grapes, with the admonition to "Boycott Grapes", while Amado M. Pena of Austin, Texas pictures a bleeding dark-green head of lettuce before the large white letters "Huelga" above which is an ironic "Spanish lesson" for Anglos: "Lechuga (lay-choo-gah) f.; 1) lettuce 2) No las compre si no es de union 3) verde y muy cabrona, it reads. The reader is admonished not to buy non union lettuce which is green and very "bitchy." Pena's silkscreen posters of the 1970's were widely circulated and highly successful in Texas. Rudy Trevino of San Antonio, Texas, in his 1974 work Lettuce on Ice paints a head of lettuce (the "bread and butter" of farm workers) surmounting a champagne ice bucket. His Lettuce Garden for Alamo organizes horizontal bands of lettuces below and a huelga eagle above between which is sandwiched the Alamo fortress, symbol of the Anglo attack which led to the separation of Texas from Mexico and the eventual annexation of the Southwest. The Alamo, according to Trevino, was the first step toward the historical exploitation of Mexican labor in agriculture; the eagle symbolizes the reversal of that exploitation.