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- <text id=90TT0963>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: Vision Art
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 73
- Vision Art
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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