balzaccom
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Obata
Dec 7, 2023 7:19:12 GMT -8
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 7, 2023 7:19:12 GMT -8
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 7, 2023 8:40:21 GMT -8
I hate taking time to watch Youtube videos. Tell us more. Like what guy?
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Post by balzaccom on Dec 7, 2023 12:53:27 GMT -8
I hate taking time to watch Youtube videos. Tell us more. Like what guy? Chiura Obata--a wonderful artist who lived an extraordinary life. The video is worth watching.
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Post by Travis on Dec 7, 2023 16:41:30 GMT -8
As I see it, we live in a time when some Americans of Northern European descent are attempting to claim a preeminent right by race or religion to America, its customs, its lands and its governance. And some rural states are attempting again to claim a right to the federal land within the borders of their states.
Historically, those sorts of attitudes have led to enslavement, harassment, deprivation of rights, and ethnic cleansing of other groups. Pluralism and multiculturalism are anathema to those interests.
Obata was a Japanese American who experienced internment during World War II. Yet his artwork displays his own love for the American landscape, undeterred by the unfair treatment he experienced. As a young Japanese American ranger relates in the video, Obata’s artwork helps her feel at home in a land in which she shares ownership.
She sees in that artwork a welcoming spirit.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 7, 2023 19:02:20 GMT -8
Thank you. I don’t think I’ve heard of Obata, and now I am much more interested in watching the YouTube.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 7, 2023 19:30:50 GMT -8
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Dec 9, 2023 10:14:48 GMT -8
The Ansel Adam’s Gallery in the Valley has frequently hung his work. I’d always admired his approach.
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