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2022-2023 NTB 3-6 > The People's Painter > Flashcards

The People's Painter Flashcards

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His name Gittel’s hands molding sturdy plates from slippery clay

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Then - he couldn’t stop himself - he sketched in the margins!

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But paper was a luxury in the shtetl, and there was none to spare

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That’s not right!

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After a classmate pulled a prank, the teacher kept everyone indoors, demanding the culprits’s name

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I’m not going to tell who did it

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Refusing to tattle, he walked out.

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He was only four when Czar Nicholas II’s soldiers hurled rocks through his window and dragged his father away.

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Just because Tate had been demanding fair pay for working people, he was banished to frigid, far-off Siberia

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But, feeling his father’s boldness inside himself, he marched up to the sentry at the end of the street and shouted, “Down with the Czar!”

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He wrote to Gittel: Come.

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But Zayde could not leave the shtetl, the only home he knew.

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He wailed.

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America bewildered the new immigrant

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Trains overhead and underground

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A cramped two-room tenement apartment for the whole family.

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A chair that rocked and nearly dumped him over backwards - not at all like Tate’s.

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Tomatoes - ick!

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All different from Hebrew.

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Even worse, bullies tormented him about his clothes and accent, and they called him names just because he was Jewish.

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Sometimes, though, they’d pause if he chalked their portraits on the sidewalk

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See his craving to draw, a teacher gave him watercolors.

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Another paid him to pen calligraphy - elegantly curving letters, all in English.

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TEACH THY TONGUE TO SAY I DO NOT KNOW AND THOU SHALT…

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To do that, he’d need to finish high school: go to college; learn about colors, lines, anatomy.

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He argued bitterly.

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HOT DOGS

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NEW YORK

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So he apprenticed to a lithographer, who hand-lettered signs for billboards and chiseled them into stone storefronts.

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He spend months on a, tracing and carving every curl and curve.

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The, he moved to b.

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Gradually, he fell in love with these letters, too.

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After five years, he mastered the craft, and his signs began to appear around the city.

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But there was a problem.

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Purple-shadowed valleys, misty haystacks, fields of cows.

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And he detested cows!

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I like stories and people, he explained.

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His teachers, though, insisted that painting weren’t supposed to tell stories.

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That pictures should be beautiful - not real life.

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Maybe he should only make signs

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Nearly thirty years old now, confused and discouraged, he quit school, stopped painting, and sailed to Europe, then on to North Africa.

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In museums, he gazed at centuries of pictures.

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This may be art but is it my own art? he pondered.

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The judge and jury decided they must be guilty, since they were poor immigrants and anarchists who opposed any kind of government.

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He returned home and told their tail in twenty-three pictures - even though his teachers had insisted that he must not tell stories.

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And people flocked to see them, even if they weren’t pretty.

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It was the Great Depression, and jobs were scarce.

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So was food.

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Young cotton pickers in Arkansas.

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Impoverished families in Mississippi

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Manual laborers in Louisiana

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Child coal miners in Pennsylvania.

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They urged politicians to pass laws to make sure workers got jobs, families were fed, and children could go to school

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Their children walked by the mural at school every day.

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Instead, he shed light on Americans who lived in the shadows.

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They questioned him relentlessly.

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Why do you support workers?

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Immigrants?

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Civil rights?

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Isn’t America fine the way it is?

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Which of your friends are enemies of America?

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I hate injustice, he had declared.

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Civil rights activists.

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Workers demanding fair pay.

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Political protesters.

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Advocates for peace.

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Especially in the margins.

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