Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claims he is a serious artist with a serious purpose, and his credentials provide sufficient evidence for this. As Bob Guillemin, the name he goes by when he's not working in the streets, Sam spent two years at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris after receiving a Masters in Fine Arts at Boston University. Since his return from Paris he has had a one-man show at Brandeis, served as president of the Visual Arts Union in Boston, and exhibited his works at the fashionable Parker 470 Gallery...
Whether Bob Guillemin is a serious artist or not seems beyond the point. Sidewalk Sam is in the streets for fun, and the people who interrupt their busy dashes across Boston to stop and watch him work enjoy their respite from the hubub of city life manage to linger on for a few extra minutes to exchange friendly words with the red-bandanna-topped artist...
...come to see Sam all the time," one businessman said while watching the sidewalk artist in front of Boston City Hall. "He brightens up my day. We need a lot more of this...
...born in Brooklyn. He studied and lived in New York City before deciding, as he put it, that "I desperately needed to find some alternative" to the abrasive, narrow competitiveness of its art scene. During a 1966 teaching stint at the University of California in Berkeley, he met Artists William Allan and William Wiley, still his closest friends. "I liked the independence and quality of their work," he recalls, "and especially how their lives as men and artists were so rich. It instilled in me a sense of what a person and an artist could be." With his wife Judy...
...took his scrutiny down to the limit of detail where the smallest legible form seems governed by a single hair of the brush: a painter's metaphor of the universal eye of God, marking the sparrow's fall. Perhaps that option is not open to a modern artist since the assumptions behind it no longer exist. In any case, Raffael (who, like any other young artist in New York in the '50s, was affected by Abstract Expressionism) wanted to keep handwriting-the visible gesture of the brush, done in and for itself-in his work. A large...