Hello, I am Curator Ria Akanay, welcoming you to the Ojara Museum of Art.

Today, we will talk about the work of the late Claudia Ateano.

Toward the end of Ateano's life, it was suggested by friends that she was working toward more epic depictions.

But as those works are unfinished or perhaps not begun, we have a more intimate concept.

In this exhibit, we will see some of Ateano's more political tributes to classic works, which were lost in the great reckoning.

We also have the Rary displayed attentiveness, which I feel has been an underrated part of Ateano's catalog.

narrating your audio guide is a journalist, artist and dear friend of Ateano, Roy Mata Mangakahia.

We are blessed to have Mangakahia's knowledge not only of Ateano as an artist but as a person.

While not nearly as successful as her late friend, Mangakahia has been an invaluable champion of Ateano's work, perhaps as important to Ateano's popularity

as Ateano's own talent.

We hope you find deeper understanding and appreciation for Ateano's work, a life in art sadly cut short.

The exhibit begins in the main gallery. Artworks included in the audio guide on Nambad.

Enjoy your time at the Ojara Museum of Art.

One. Stars.

Little remains of impressionist Vincent Van Gogh's work.

There are a handful of photographs of Stary Knight and a portion of what remains of the painting hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.

It's new Harlem Island structure, a masterpiece of modern architecture.

Many works of the European masters were lost in the Great Reckoning.

Many works by artists worldwide were lost, but at the centre of Western art history were the impressionists.

Stary Knight, Mane's Olympia, Sizzards the Card Players.

These paintings are often recreated by artists in our new society, an exercising cultural reclamation of course,

an attempt to return to the knowledge and art and history that was lost after the war.

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