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The most obvious examples of religious folk art in Chicano culture are religious statues, the santos (saints), retablos (religious paintings), ex-votos, and paintings of La Virgen de Guadalupe.
Sometimes these objects are called ex-votos, meaning “from a vow,” and are in the shape of the object that symbolizes what the vow was about.
Art exhibits in the United States have shown retablos ex-votos that depict the treacherous experience of immigrating to the United States.