West of The Imagination; 106; Enduring Dreams; B Roll

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powers be new tune moon by the end of the nineteenth century the west was settle the frontier closing when frederick remington

called the wildlife isn't a vacant lambs had vanished forever this was but this bill's big and our own century new dreams have appeared in the artistic romance with the southwest things from the dark visions of the gospels by the fbi agents of the west are still unfolding as hispanic artists and native american painters create powerful new images he

you know the way our story of the twentieth century image makers begins at a territory of new mexico senator has no way those chances of them was the only brought them face to face with the greatest inspirational adventure of their life

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indian township ancient structures unchanged for over six hundred years and have added by descendents of the size of the ancient ones the first people of the southwest the texture of everyday lives have changed very little traditions have been passed along generation to generation nice nice nice

eventually phillips and joseph shut the manor would prompt of the first painting trip here mark duncan joined the group and they call themselves the taos society of artists they establish studios in the tiny hamlet down the road from the point well they brought their families out and set up home as they met and woman shined kitchen to discuss there are women john's daughter helen remembers the early days there are so few loyalists i mean how many analysts who were here in the

first place that picture in the grocery me and a few other things and that's about it so we are just we were very close this necessity of talking to somebody he slowly the group of artist grew to include martin hennings water over that peer higgins and kenneth adams but how society was not an artistic school that set out to determine a certain style but the painters approach to the subject was very similar no idea why they were trained in europe a uniquely american art by contrast the work of two russian artists would parallel the

southwest with their own native land leon gas part paid it up away below girl with striking similarity to this portrait of a sister are back home this medicine man reminded nickolay fish in the carter chiefs in his native goes apple but the russians never joined the tao society of art as an american group devoted to american subjects the approach taken by it irving carlos was typical of the artist fascination with the indian oh cause photographed is marvel's first then he drew a great aunt of the photograph the great allowed him to transfer the scenes square by square on the larger campus in the studio he concentrated on color and light create his popular and sentimental paintings of indian life

years later when i was doing the modern then i would be because its residents by sending e m grandmother house would've given us breathless and in the meantime these two cars would be in the studio getting things ready for the day's business or higher

for many re a composite picture of you james describing the quintessential do this best in the studio where he was in complete control air

klaus was a romantic idealistic not an anthropologist his relationship to his models though it appears paternalistic today was personal and caring and they listened for thirty five

years the picture's meticulously planned and executed appeared to be scientifically accurate documents of indian life but they never were the products of causes methodical mine ben lewin and the father of the little boy became part of the family he discusses name and consider costly his father he sat for a long succession opposes each one intended to capture the spirit of the indian few if any are cyrus their land head

instead ted ted ted a day a day day day saying say here's davis' day he's nice today stephanie davis day superstition

spiritual is on to some christ on the cross was the white man's superstition the artist what are you for was deeply suspicious of what christianity had done for the indians but many in the pueblo had accepted it as an extra layer of faith these are essentially source of inspiration this was a vivid emphasis on

paying more attention to the stark parable of the crucifixion was somehow close to the spirit there were mysteries that have the power to inspire the local spanish community as surely as the cycle of the season's inspired me to a visitor from the outside world the burial rights of local sites like the penitentiary or strain of the pueblo hundred

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issue has been great for me you are and things everything that the employer sponsored this armory show in nineteen thirteen and then abused america do abstract art but she had tired of the world of movers and shakers she came to new mexico to seek spiritual rejuvenation and fell in love with the taos pueblo indian

what ideas no protests were particularly attracted by the promise of contact with truly indigenous american cultures none more so than be at lawrence mr li right he insists he's my family

lawrence's response to this awesome country was immediate and in the magnificent skull of religion which wants something he's sixteen by the nineteen twenties modernist painters were directly inspired by the abstract patterns of primitive art they saw a purity of

form in the traditional designers that seemed to express the native mine that they're higgins painting days shows the use of flattened shapes and patterns taken from southwestern are these paintings of yunnan not to echo the cubism of how so angular and geometrically and that's i don't know just a minute in the season again ancient civilizations

he is oscar those rectangles the landscape launched them into adventure is an abstraction the plane is a change it's because the premiums because robinson's business is bliss

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is going to play with his band all right here is a shelter nice nice nice

visitors simplicity drought stock the land where once the pioneers settled

dustin disaster loan american farm by joe jones is grimly ironic home to show the raid but the bridge and so this allegorical piece mother earth laid bare artist tried to project the maximum emotional power over their campuses as in the paintings of jon stewart curry yeah this is

it's true bb eight mm hmm the art of photography was also employed to it the american public to

the tragedy in their midst as a result the story of the dust bowl in the agricultural depression became for every part of the myth of the west the farm security administration the fsa employed photographers to document in detail what was happening to the land arthur rothstein was the first of the episode photographers is heading for an out building in the face of the storm echo jon stewart curry's painting of a family fleeing from a tornado this is ross' dimes eviction of sharecroppers you these pictures had a remarkable impact they pull of you were up for the plane of decency dorothea lange his best known as the

photographer of the great migration westwards at three hundred thousand people and the line that had for california this is lines of migrant mother in nineteen thirty six and ditched snow and stranded lange's pictures provided a documentary basis for a work that still on some memory of those days john steinbeck's novel the grapes of wrath at an afl he's been a

pain can eat these pictures were taken by former fsa photographer russell lee explains what it was like to document people in such dire circumstances and economic situation perhaps with congolese to follow and then the holy heck of a leadership coalition a phone a building boom also flown about how many are unfounded well you know in talking with one shot or do the search on all four us has done well

and maybe fifteen twenty thirty minutes to start talking to them but to their particular economic situation and then i would have noticed something perhaps an abandoned house but bybee for growth of their family before bedtime other intolerable together for a subjective number of media on the war somewhere that guy you're jewish the human ancestors is all your people and floated know that is from perhaps over tomorrow the peak ms

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at his criticisms redefining american men has become a wife worth of hispanic artists least intimate thing and the progress series large fiberglass sculptures in vibrant colors to pick favorite american heroes

assad must turn pays tribute to thomas hart benton was characteristically engine the black arrow echoes the energy and excitement of a remington writer he's also a tribute to the mexican origins of the cowboy jimenez is noise subject through the southwest period plan for the city of albuquerque there's popular mexican meth depicts an indian man metaphor for an active volcano holding a woman symbol of the dorm and land dylan is intended to be used to infuse an ancient myth with renewed energy it's ironic that the city fathers sought is disturbingly relevant and therefore vanished that eventually has to be a private class reminder

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for it a new spirit of pan indian isn't brought students from across the united states these paintings are my bills sosa and these by alfred young man their work was internal political satirical cynical and coldly distance one of their teachers for its shoulder was a great influence what we learn the beginning is not the truth and so for the last half of oakland's life you start to get some kind of thinking of the truth and that's what art is all about seeking truth o aye day to day search

of trying to find out first saw who you are and second of all what can you do to in some way make the reality in which you find yourself someway viable insurers own work is superman deal is joined by the cowboys again and again he has reworked these iconic figures the classic adversaries of the west they have become ghostly heroes like half remembered shadows from a movie of our collective imagination one is most gifted students was too easy canon can and created a pop art indian dowry today

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car salesman surrounded and attacked by angry indians the useless cars lie dead on their backs more recently white has created a series called messianic memoirs in which he portrays the sioux warrior crazy horse is a messiah to his people and twenty four paintings he tells the story of christ's life from the annunciation to the resurrection as an indian legend for and believe like the west is a mythic arena in which universal stories can be told the most recent were the source of her parent's

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