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WWII Transformed the Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi [PICS]

covertress.blogspot.com — On December 8, 1941, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a prominent émigré Japanese artist in New York, awoke to find himself an “enemy alien” after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. “A few short days has changed my status in this country, although I myself have not changed at all,” Kuniyoshi wrote. [PICS]

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  • IconoclastStill, on 05/11/2008, -0/+2Except for the one piece accompanying the submission, I can't say I much liked his work.
  • petsheep, on 05/11/2008, -0/+6That's the beauty of art, I see a combination of Paul Klee and Picasso there, a thing of beauty, I liked it.
  • covertress, on 05/11/2008, -0/+9By 1930 his work, both as a graphic artist and as a painter in oils, was included in almost all national exhibitions of American art, and in 1935 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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