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My Art Influences
Carolina Martinez
Artist and Elementary Educator
email: 68.carolina@gmail.com
Current Art Influences
I currently am influenced by the art of Roger Shimomura, Estelle Ishigo, and Henry Sugimoto
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Estelle drew and painted what she saw, to journal, and then later her paintings were in her book titled, Lone Heart Mountain, that shared what life experience was for the interned in camp.
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Roger currently shows his work, and some of his paintings are memories or inspired by the time he was interned as a child in Minidoka.
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Henry Sugimoto painted his personal experience and the Japanese experience, in life and at Jerome Internment camp, before, during and after the internment.
Past Art Influences
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Frida Kahlo |  |
It's Frida Kahlo's earnest desire to share her pain and her struggle that have inspired me to make courageous paintings of my deepest feelings.
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Vincent Van Gogh | 
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From Vincent VanGogh's paintings, I got the courage to play with line and texture in my work.
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Henri Matisse |  |
From Henri Matisse, I learned that it's okay to loosen up,
not worry about the
perfection of realism, and boost the color and pattern.
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Paul Gaughin |  |
Paul Gaughin's work inspires me to have rich compositions,
with many
details, and with an emphasis on the human form.
I believe he is a master in the area of figure painting.
And the lovely part with him, is that the human form can be beautiful larger,
without the emaciated look of modern culture.
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Claude Monet |  |
From Claude Monet's paintings, I am inspired to have a complex
composition, let the brush or line detail show,
and layer the color to give a
delicate, polished image.
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