Rick Bartow

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  my presentation is called stepping away from the norm

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  and it's about a native american contemporary artist called rick. Porto.

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  Porto is a contemporary artist was born in the year in 1946

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  and passed away just recently in the year 2016,

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  he was a member of the Wyatt tribe,

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  which is actually located in northern California.

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  Porto learned all about his native traditions

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  through an uncle on his father's side of the family.

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  Then early age Barto learned that he loved art

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  and says as parents always encouraged him to do so and excel in his work

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  and they helped him to do this by even providing him a little extra space

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  in the very tightly packed home for him to be able to do his work.

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  Rick would later go on to graduate college with a bachelor's degree

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  in our education.

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  However, though shortly after finishing college,

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  he was drafted into the Vietnam War

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  in 1969.

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  This caused Barto to fall into a deep depression and start drinking

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  happily ever words due to the trauma that he had suffered.

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  However,

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  while dealing with these illnesses,

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  he began to immerse himself in art

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  as a form of medicine,

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  essentially says they drew himself straight

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  due to the art that he was making

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  Bartos artistic style varies deeply from piece to piece that is created.

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  Some of the pieces were called back to prior life experiences.

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  While other pieces combine multiple cultures into his work.

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  While these cultures he has visited and traveled to within his life.

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  An example of some of these experiences and cultures, including

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  including his work

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  or his depression,

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  substance abuse as well as the japanese native american and western cultures.

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  Porto is one

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  who likes to use traditional art media.

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  So all of his art is done in either way of sculptures, paintings,

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  drawings and even printmaking.

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  He says he likes to use this type of media

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  because it prevents him from even come remotely close

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  to that of american traditional indian art,

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  especially because he doesn't even want to

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  be directly associated with him whatsoever.

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  The first piece of artwork

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  that we will look at from Bartow

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  is called CS indian

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  and it is a drum

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  is actually one of the few pieces that

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  has direct correlation to Bartos native american indian pass

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  as a direct correlation because the CS and the name is short for coonskin

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  who was a member of the Wyatt tribe

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  family long ago.

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  CS is a CS indian is a drawing made of pastels, charcoal and ink

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  and also contains writing within as well.

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  Proto says he likes to write left handed

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  his drawings because it gives the drawing more flowy and realistic look to it

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  rather than having to be sharp and crisp.

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  The face in this drawing also contains many eyes

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  which Bartow states are those of ancestors of the Wyatt tribe.

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  He does this because he wants them to have an eye on his art

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  and so they can look forward into the future.

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  The second piece of reporting

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  that we'll look at here is a print that was actually printed on japanese paper

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  and it's called for clint.

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  The print features a skull of antlers,

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  which is a common motif associate with native americans that

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  you can sometimes see throughout other pieces of his artwork.

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  The skull is then attached to an elongated body

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  featuring the swirls identical to those

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  found in the words of Australian artists. Gustav clint,

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  hence the name correlation between the artist and his work.

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  The body of Portland also features the use of short vertical lines

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  in order to give the artwork texture.

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  This technique can also be evident in other pieces. Work

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  and through looking at this piece,

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  you can see how Barto likes to use many different

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  cultures like japanese and Western culture in his works,

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  through the use of the paper as well as the artist

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  final piece of our toes that we look at here

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  is actually a wind sculpture carved with the name

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  of After Van Gogh.

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  After Van Gogh is a sculpture which features a carved head of the famous

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  european artist, Vincent Van Gogh.

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  You can see the correlation not only through the name of this piece,

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  but also by the fact that the sculpture is missing here.

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  This piece relates back to the Wyatt tribe in some form

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  because Wyatt tribe is known for their woodworking.

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  The meaning behind in the sculpture actually

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  is the idea that the patch face

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  and nail sculpt

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  supports

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  suggests that one must deconstruct

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  and put together again the pieces of european history

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  in order to accommodate that of the indigenous people,

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  which they took over and moved

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  misconception that I chose to look at then,

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  is that about the stereotype

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  When it comes to native american artist,

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  the stereotype is that native american artist always have to create works

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  or should create works that have to do with their native culture

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  or native american past.

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  However though this is simply not true because not all native

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  american artists create works that have to do with their native culture

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  because in fact some of them actually choose to

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  stay away from it and create their own identities.

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  The thing about this though is that since they

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  choose to get away from their native culture,

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  it has limited their exposure as a result to the stereotype

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  because they are deemed as not being authentic in a way,

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  even though they're trying to do what's best for them and

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  what they think is right by but find their own identity

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  and using other cultures like japanese western.

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  And this can be seen on the piece of the right, which is also a piece by rigoberto

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  called big lasso,

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  which is a frog

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  on canvas, which has nothing to do with his native american past.

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  And he has always stated that

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  and with saying this,

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  so he believes they should be compared to

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  other contemporary artists rather than those of native

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  american artists because he wants to branch out and not be related to them at all.

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  Questions then that have come up with you for is that

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  Bartle himself argues that he is in fact not a native american artist at all,

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  but rather an artist of native american descent,

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  which he deems completely different.

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  So he believes that his work should not be compared to the native american artist,

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  but rather that of other contemporary artists

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  whether they come from

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  Western culture or other people within the U. S.

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  So do you think that Bartow is in the right

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  and making this claim

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  considering the majority of his work

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  has nothing to do with his native american culture at all?

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  And the other question I have

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  is that

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  there is a wide stereotype that native american artists must

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  create native american art in one way or another.

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  So do you believe that in our society today that

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  this thought as well as other stereotypes without native americans

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  and that what native american artist should be

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  has limited those artists to create art away

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  those who create art away from

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  their culture

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  like Barto and other people who just want

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  to disassociate from the native american past.

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  And then these are my sources that I used to put together this presentation

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  and

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  presented to you all.

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  Thank you