Adan hernandez biography of christopher
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Remembering the late, iconic Chicano artist Adan Hernandez
SAN ANTONIO — Armando and Bert Hernandez were in awe when they stopped by the famous mural that was in the movie “Blood In, Blood Out.” It’s not because it was in the most iconic Chicano film ever.
“Is that the original,” Bert Hernandez says.
“Oh wow.”
It’s because the mural was done by their big brother and legendary Chicano artist, Adan Hernandez, who passed away at the age of 69.
“We never saw him as this giant that he is, we just saw him as my older brother,” Armando Hernandez says.
Adan was one of ten siblings and came from a family of migrant workers growing up in Robstown.
The Hernandez family moved to San Antonio’s West Side when Adan Hernandez was 9 years old and it was in that barrio where he showed his creativity.
Adan Hernandez would shoot short films at Brackenridge Park with his siblings and projected them in the family backyard for the neighborhood to see.
He even designed h