"…I think Disney personifies some of the American ideals in art and in culture in total, because what he was trying to do and specifically with Fantasia. And it was the spirit of the thirties, I believe; it was the post-Depression period, where people were trying to think popular art, art that was consumable by the masses high art that could be put in a tin or another form, a package…"
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Immigrants to the United StatesPeople from ChicagoArtists from the United StatesPeople from Mexico CityHispanic Americans
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On being influenced by Disney productions in “Oral history interview with Carlos Almaraz, 1986 February 6-1987 January 29” (Smithsonian Archive of the Arts)
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Carlos Almaraz
1941 – 1989
Carlos Almaraz (October 5, 1941–December 11, 1989) was a Mexican-American artist.
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