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June 4 2011
Late Jack Kevorkian Also An Artist (PHOTOS)
First Posted: 06- 4-11 08:15 AM
Dr. Jack Kevorkian is famous for his beliefs on physician-assisted
suicide and his subsequent trial and incarceration. He is less known,
however, for his careers as a writer, composer and oil painter.
The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, MA has four
of Kevorkian's works on display and twelve more in storage. The
curator of the museum, Gary Lind-Sinanian, commented that the museum
also possesses a collection of his writings and compositions.
His fascination with death and the act of dying permeate his art. The
paintings on display are full of lurid colors and imagery of death,
almost what one might expect from someone commonly known as is "Doctor
Death". Images such as "Very Still Life,' which depicts a human skull
and "Nearer My God Than Thee," with a man clawing walls as he's
dragged to his death, give credence to that nickname.
Lind-Sinanian said that since Kevorkian's death the museum has had an
increase in requests for signed posters of Kevorkian's art. Kevorkian
died at age 83 in Michigan early Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/late-jack-kevorkian-also-_n_871236.html
From: A. Papazian
June 4 2011
Late Jack Kevorkian Also An Artist (PHOTOS)
First Posted: 06- 4-11 08:15 AM
Dr. Jack Kevorkian is famous for his beliefs on physician-assisted
suicide and his subsequent trial and incarceration. He is less known,
however, for his careers as a writer, composer and oil painter.
The Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, MA has four
of Kevorkian's works on display and twelve more in storage. The
curator of the museum, Gary Lind-Sinanian, commented that the museum
also possesses a collection of his writings and compositions.
His fascination with death and the act of dying permeate his art. The
paintings on display are full of lurid colors and imagery of death,
almost what one might expect from someone commonly known as is "Doctor
Death". Images such as "Very Still Life,' which depicts a human skull
and "Nearer My God Than Thee," with a man clawing walls as he's
dragged to his death, give credence to that nickname.
Lind-Sinanian said that since Kevorkian's death the museum has had an
increase in requests for signed posters of Kevorkian's art. Kevorkian
died at age 83 in Michigan early Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/late-jack-kevorkian-also-_n_871236.html
From: A. Papazian