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...more likely its demos would be found decades later in a rented attic, as Elephant 6 projects are wont to do. Finally, in late 2008, Hart revealed a primary reason for the seemingly endless delay: he had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a sobering reality for fans of the painter (who’s designed all his own album art) and musician. But while some might expect Hart’s disclosure to be a farewell message, it instead marked Circulatory System’s revival: recorded in seven studios over almost eight years, the band’s sophomore...
...spent four years as a propaganda artist, portraying North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in unvaryingly heroic poses, but now the painter Sunmu is having fun with the form. Since arriving in the South in 2001, 38-year-old Sunmu - it's an assumed name - has been lampooning his old master from a musty studio in a run-down suburb of western Seoul. In the eponymous work Kim Jong Il, the North Korean supremo is shown in a pink tracksuit, grinning and fat. In Please Have Some Medicine (pictured), he is a dying hospital patient being offered Coca-Cola...
...simple hunger that drove Sunmu out of North Korea in 1998. A talented painter since childhood, he was assigned to a propaganda unit during compulsory military service and so impressed his superiors that that the normal 10-year tour of duty was cut to four years, and he was allowed to attend art school. But, at 27, the famished student crossed the Tumen River into China, eventually finding a path to South Korea via Laos following three years in hiding. Once in Seoul, he used a government stipend to further his art studies, and since graduating has eked...
...successful painter with a reputation as a social and cultural liberal, Hosni has spent a good part of his time since the protest movement began explaining and apologizing for his comments. On his blog, he argues that the book burning statement was intended as a hyperbolic retort expressing exasperation with his accusers. Still, he acknowledges such public statements are hard to rationalize. "I clearly regret the words said and which I could have justified as being uttered under the tension and provocation of the discussion at the time," Hosni writes. "However, I will not take that as an excuse. They...
...Hitler want to build the Führermuseum? He was a frustrated, aspiring artist. He had applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as a painter and been rejected. He had been encouraged to reapply for architecture school and was rejected again. He believed that the majority of the jurors at the academy were Jews. He was determined to get back at them and diminish Vienna's cultural influence over Europe by rebuilding Linz. It was an industrial city and wasn't particularly attractive. He wanted to make it magnificent. (See pictures of the faces...