Landscape


LANDSCAPE

Place in Space

As World War II ten­sions mounted between Axis and Allied forces, Canada adopted a pol­icy of con­fine­ment and forced labour for the Japan­ese Cana­dian pop­u­la­tion.  In 1942, when Tan­abe was 16, he was forced to relo­cate from his home in Prince Rupert to the Slo­can Val­ley, in BC’s inte­rior.  After two years in an intern­ment camp, Tan­abe was able to trans­fer to a prison farm in Man­i­toba.  It was here that he had his first expe­ri­ences with the Prairie land­scape.  After the war ended, Tan­abe was able to attend art school through the Win­nipeg School of Art.  Early works reveal his exper­i­men­ta­tion with colour and form to cre­ate abstract, yet rec­og­niz­able tracts of land, and mark the begin­ning of his fas­ci­na­tion with the sweep­ing expanse of the Prairies.     As World War II ten­sions mounted between Axis and Allied forces, Canada adopted a pol­icy of con­fine­ment and forced labour for the Japan­ese Cana­dian pop­u­la­tion.  In 1942, when Tan­abe was 16, he was forced to relo­cate from his home in Prince Rupert to the Slo­can Val­ley, in BC’s inte­rior.  After two years in an intern­ment camp, Tan­abe was able to trans­fer to a prison farm in Man­i­toba.  It was here that he had his first expe­ri­ences with the Prairie land­scape.  After the war ended, Tan­abe was able to attend art school through the Win­nipeg School of Art.  Early works reveal his exper­i­men­ta­tion with colour and form to cre­ate abstract, yet rec­og­niz­able tracts of land, and mark the begin­ning of his fas­ci­na­tion with the sweep­ing expanse of the Prairies.

  


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