Why “Hi, How Are You” matters. Austin’s most famous mural is a case study in art preservation and cultural impact.
"Hi, How Are You," Daniel Johnston's mural at Guadalupe and 21st was originally only one of two images by the artist/songwriter, the other being painted over mere months after completion. The frog was already an icon of cool after Kurt Cobain wore it on a t-shirt at the 1992 MTV Music Awards.
Sound Exchange commissioned Johnston to paint said bullfrog on the side of their store at 21st and Guadalupe. Over the next 30 years, it became a fixture of the landscape. Everybody with interest in the image wins: Austin holds on to a symbol of itself, and a developer avoids a PR nightmare .It's not like this is Johnston's only piece of public art; arguably, his work has never been more visible. The 2005 documentaryexplored the complexities of his life, his struggles with mental illness, and his art. Books have been published; exhibitions have been mounted.Indeed, there is a Johnston mural on the side of the former Nau's Enfield Drug on West Lynn.
September 9, 1992: Kurt Cobain, a product of that same American underground and singer/guitarist and primary songwriter for Nirvana, appeared at the MTV Music Awards wearing a shirt with the bullfrog cover art fromalmost exactly a year earlier and Cobain was well on his way to being anointed the voice of a generation, a job nobody has ever seemed to want less.
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