One month, one painting : “The Protector” by Steven J. Yazzie, Navajo – Diné culture, USA

Steven Yazzie (born 1970) is a Native American artist, who is enrolled in the Navajo Nation and of Laguna Pueblo descent of his father’s side. He is a painter and creates video art and installation environments.
Yazzie’s protector in the painting is the rainbow. He explains, “A title for the painting came to me after the completion of the work. The rainbow in this regard is the originator of this theme of protection for Navajos. It is the protector of our stories, our life ways, and the world we live in.” As for Coyote, Yazzie says, “To create a bit of drama, Coyote stares back and focuses intently on this sculptural object in the foreground. This is the moment in question … the intersection of spiritual beings, of the ancestral and the modern.”

Source : Freely adapted from https://heard.org/remembering-the-future-100-years-of-inspiring-art/
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