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- PEOPLE, Page 73Vision Art
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- BY EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Howard Finster paints what he sees, and what he sees comes
- straight from God. In 1976 he was told in a vision to "make
- sacred art," and the Baptist minister, now 73, has since turned
- out 14,288 works. "In church they used to love me as a
- preacher," says folk artist Finster, whose paintings are prized
- by museums and galleries, "but forgot my message. Now I'm
- preaching all over the world." In his Summerville, Ga.,
- Paradise Garden, he's put 150 figures on a 14-ft. Coca-Cola
- bottle. "There's no ice water in hell," Finster warns. No Cokes
- either.
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