Pastor Brooke Rolston critiques A K Segan tolerance education Holocaust art about Spain, 1930's ©

The website of artist and pro-life educator A K Segan: www.humanrights-holocaust-art.org
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Note: This video can be viewed by viewers of all ages. The artist has guest taught children, with his Tolerance Education with Art power-point classes; frequently followed with his facilitating his Drawing-for-Healing art therapy - oriented workshop, with classes of school pupils ages 4 and up, older children, adolescents, teens in schools in six U.S. states, and with adult audiences in 7 states. He has guest taught all age audiences in Britain, including classes at numerous primary and secondary schools. He has guest education majors (student teachers-in-training) at university classes in Illinois, England; guest taught teachers at a secondary school, Hod Ha’sharon, Israel; guest taught at the School of Social Work, Haifa Univ.; guest taught first year M.A. Art Therapy classes, Arts Therapies program, Haifa University, Israel. He has facilitated workshops at International Conferences on the Holocaust & Education (Oct. '99, April '02, May '06), International School for Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
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Retired campus pastor Brooke Rolston, ordained American Baptist, is a many years long colleague of Segan in interfaith education. Rev. Rolston organized Segan's very first slide presentation, in 1994, at Campus Christian Ministry - Covenant House, near the Univ. of Washington campus in Seattle. Segan had chatted with Rolston at the nearby Hillel Jewish student center in 1992.
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On December 17, 2024 Rolston visited and critiqued Segan's homage to child victims of the Third Reich air force Luftwaffe bombing of Spanish town; Spanish poet, Miguel Hernandez, and war photographer. Gerda Taro.
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About the drawing: Under the Wings 78: Memorial to photojournalist - war photographer Gerda Taro, Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez, and three Spanish child victims of the Nazi Third Reich's Luftwaffe air force bombing of a town in Spain, 1937.
Media: Pencil, ink, gouache, colored pencil, crayon.
Framed, 41 in. H x 17 W [101.14 cm. H x 43.18 W]
There are 5 portraits; 3 metaphoric birds wings; and allegorical sea monsters. The Third Reich sent Luftwaffe pilots from the Condor Legion to Spain. They bombed a school, called Liceu Escolar, in the town of Llieda, November 2, 1937. Several hundred people died in the town from the bombings. I don't know the names of the children or the teachers who were murdered by the Nazi Luftwaffe air force personnel.
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The bombing of the town of Guernica was prior, April 6, 1937. That bombing inspired one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings, Guernica. It was exhibited for many years in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where I saw it a number of times. It was moved back to Spain in 1981; it's now at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
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In my drawing, one sea monster was inspired by a color photo in a 1963-1964 Life Nature Library book. Previously, for eclectic inspiration, I viewed 2 color photos I like, published in a 1963-64 published LIFE Nature Library book, The Fishes. Edited by F.D. Ommanney and the Editors of Life. Published by Time Inc., N.Y., N.Y. The 2 fishes which inspired my interpretative drawing shapes and coloration are on p. 26: A dragon moray eel; a tile fish.
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The wings drawn on the portraits of the 3 school kids were inspired by photos of wings in the hardcopy calendar, Splendid Wings 2002. Published by the American Ornithology Union, with credits to the University of Washington Burke Museum, Seattle and the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. The wing I drew on the portrait of the boy is a Yellow-bibbed Lory; the following words look to be Latin: Lorius chlorocerus.
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I began the drawing May 18, 2023, inspired by a photo of Gerda Taro. She was born August 1, 1910, Stuggart, Germany, of Jewish parentage. Considered the first woman war photojournalist and photographer, she was the partner and girlfriend of Robert Capa, the great photojournalist and co-founder of Magnum Photography. Capa, also Jewish, was born in Budapest, 1913; died 1954, French Indochina.
Taro died in Spain, age 26, on July 26, 1937, when she was hit by a tank. Her death reportedly left Capa bereft. They were living together in Paris before they went to Spain to cover the civil war there.
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The other portrait of an adult is of the Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez. He was born in Orihuela, Spain, October 30, 1910. While imprisoned in Alicanta jail, Spain, in 1942, he left passed on March 28, from typhus and tuberculosis. He was previously convicted and sentenced to death in 1939 for anti-Fascist activities. He was incarcerated in inhumane conditions in several prisons.
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I first learned of Hernandez from a record album, titled Miguel Hernandez, which I bought in 1973 in a record store in Rio Piedras, near the Univ, of Puerto RIco campus. Singing by the Spanish singer and composer Joan Manuel Serrat, born 1943. The Miguel Hernandez album was released 1972.
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art, video © A K Segan