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...camp in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Last year the Chinese government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing an open letter demanding the release of detained dissidents. DIED. ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA CAMPOS, 84, one of Brazil's most prominent intellectual and political figures; in S?o Paulo. A staunch supporter of free markets, Campos was a principal architect of the 1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer...
...uniting the aesthetics of south and east. The synthesis comes naturally for him. The grandson of Japanese immigrants, part of a wave of 190,000 people who moved to Brazil during the first four decades of the 20th century, Fukuda, 58, was born in coffee country in Sao Paulo State, where his father had a factory that made fans. Fukuda, who has no formal art training, began his apprenticeship by painting Japanese landscapes on the fans after he came home from school...
...harmony." In a painting he completed this year, Composition on a Red Background, he contrasts his reds with calmer gray and brown tones. Meanwhile, his bronze sculptures are marked by empty spots that, Fukuda explains, are meant to convey airiness. For well-known critic Alberto Beutenmuller of Sao Paulo, the traditional Asian side of Fukuda's work reflects a spirit of "not wanting to lose roots or customs...
After his rural childhood, Fukuda spent some 20 years in Sao Paulo, Brazil's industrial center. He again adapted his surroundings into his work, using automobile paint to accentuate his sculptures. In 1980 he fled to the peace and quiet of Curitiba, a smaller city in the interior of the country. There he continues to pursue his lifelong quest to merge his birth culture with his ancestral one. "I transmit the calmness and order of my Asian upbringing," he says. But he also keeps faith with his South American side: "Art must transmit joy and energy...
...Peter Katel. With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo...