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Movie - "The Shining" - Dorothy Marie Oxborough's Pastels of First Nations' Children - Set of Five

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Movie -  The Shining  - Dorothy Marie Oxborough's Pastels of First Nations' Children - Set of Five
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Interesting lot of five Indigenous Children framed pastels made famous by Stanley Kubrick in the horror movie - the "Shining".

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https://eyescream237.ca/the-works-of-dorothy-oxborough

Oxborough was painting the Bearspaw band of the Nakoda/Stoney peoples (closely related to Dakota and Lakota) who were based in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana. The name Nakoda means “friend, ally”.

While Oxborough has been criticized for infantilizing indigenous people through her art, Kubrick is only using works here where the figure casts a wounded, judgmental or fearful gaze, it seems to me. The Bearspaw people conveyed through these paintings end up taking on a rather sinister role in the Overlooks grand design.

Dorothy did real art, and she was well known in artistic circles, which she likely wouldn't have been if she was only concerned with producing kitsch. Perhaps she felt she was introducing people to First Nation children and that the world would respond most to kitsch. People loved these images just like they loved stereotypical kitsch art from earlier eras of white children wandering about with angels or Jesus, and big eye children prints produced by other artists in the 1960s and 70s.

In selecting these particular pastels, Kubrick went with what was Dorothy's less potentially offensive images in in her kitsch depictions of native children. He stuck with cute, with kitsch, that animates the walls of the Overlook at points and makes us feel a sense of intimate liveliness peeking out of the plaster.