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a GI's Sketchbook THE INVADING Japs brought pencils and sketchbooks along with their worthless fiat money. The result was a flood of drawings of Philippine scenes, some good but mostly bad, which eventually found their way into propaganda magazines and leaflets. The Yanaks also brought sketchbooks. One of them, 19-year-old Eugene Colan of New York city, did the three watercolors reproduced on this page, while with the 22nd Replacement Depot in the Manilla area. GI drawings get the local spirit better than the average Jap soldier-artist ever did because affinity in Fil-American taste. Whereas Jap soldier drawings were wispy, subjective and generally reminiscent of Oriental art, the work of GI's, both amateur and professional, is characterized by vigor and objectivity. Our GI artist went for a time to an art school in the states before joining the army. Weeks ago, when he brought us these drawings and others in his sketcbook, he said he might be demobilized soon but planned to get a job here, to finance further art studies. |
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