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Born 1891 at St. Jean de Braye France [see no.l], the oldest of three children, his father was the town carpenter. Henri was a clever student with a special talent for languages. A scholarship won at age 15 took him to England and another the following year took him to Germany. He became fluent in these languages and also Russian. It was intended that he find a career in business but he had always had an interest in drawing and in 1910 he went to live in Paris where he decuded to be a sculptor.
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大家都听说了曾经繁华的底特律城所遭遇的财务困难问题,这实在令人遗憾,而我唯一担心的是底特律艺术学院(The Detroit Institute of Art),它是美国排名第六的博物馆,以藏有罗丹的雕塑《思想者》和梵高(Van Gogh)、委拉兹开斯(Velazquez)、勃鲁盖尔(Breughel)以及许多其他名人作品而为荣。不要忘记其中也有一些纺织藏品,例如这个《帕里斯的裁判》(the Judgment of Paris)斯图亚特王朝时期的镶板。所以我们既关心又担心这个博物馆未来的命运。从这
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忘记过去,从零开始,是旅美陶艺家罗小平当初赴美后所坚持的从艺理念。毕竟,作为受中国五千年传统文化影响下的陶瓷艺术家,也许适合罗小平艺术生存的还是本土,但他置已经取得的身份、地位、成就于不顾,毅然决然地去了异域。在重新开创艺术新局面理念的指引下,罗小平经过不懈努力,取得了一系列的成就,包括获得All Arizona Clay Lxhibition最高奖和Cortemporaary Art of Tca 11评委奖,赢得了国际学术界上的认肯。正如美国的陶艺权威著作家所说的:“罗小平是中国文革之后(改革开放)在国际上获得赞誉和承认的少数成熟的陶艺家之一。”在文化全球化的艺术国家化、多元化发展的今天,罗小平堪为当代艺术家走出国门,跻身世界艺坛的一个范例。 以下刊登的是罗小平将于2003年10月在美国ASU美术馆展出的一组新作——反映复杂国家关系的《时代广场》系列作品。美国的当代著名艺评家、堪萨斯州立大学教授格伦·R·布朗博士专门为此撰写了一篇评论。