Magu Lujan and Art Communication

Magu Lujan is one of the founder's of the Chicano Art Movement. I grew up not have much resources to gain knowledge about art history and current movements. Magu says that art is a communication, something you need to learn and that is mandatory as an artist. Because it helps make good decisions towards created art, it helps put a story line to your art. At the beginning of the video he responds that "they" didn't consider "us" as a movement or culture. I wonder if that is towards an argument towards Chicano art. He goes on to say that "we", and I'm guessing Chicanos, can tel stories with their art if given the chance. I think that they already do. He says that artists as students have to reach, read, and go out to gain knowledge about the communication that is art. To learn its vocabulary. He points out to his painting how he mixes the vocabulary of abstract, even tho he is not an abstract painter, he uses it in in his representational artwork. Not learning and applying these things results in what he calls neanderthal art and results in your work not being displayed in museums and such. Although he offers few words, they did open my eyes to the responsibility I had and have in order to expand my art communication with or without resources offered to me.