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Compositions Over the course of his 70-year career, Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was many things: an envoy of Japanese art and design to American audiences; an internment camp detainee who fought to educate and give solace to his fellow prisoners through the creative arts; and a pivotal 20th-century artist and professor who revered the greatness of Nature above all. The media and techniques varied: a mix of colored woodcuts, watercolors and ink paintings in a bevy of styles, all extrapolating visually on the California landscape that Obata had connected to on a deep level. LEFT Chiura Obata is pictured at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco, during a 1931 exhibition of paintings by him and his brother, Rokuichi Obata. [Extracted from the article] |
