Скачать или смотреть Visionary Artist Leon Kennedy. Maker of Light.

Visionary Artist Leon Kennedy. Maker of Light.

African-American spiritual visionary Leon Kennedy (b. 1945, Houston, Texas) uses mixed media on found objects to paint ecstatic visions, memory paintings, and urban life portraits. Kennedy is featured on several pages of Rosnak's "Contemporary American Folk Art" (Abbeville, 1996), and in Betty-Carol Sellen's important survey, "Self Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art" (McFarland & Company, 1999).

In 1997, the Smithsonian Institution purchased 200 significant works from the renowned Rosenak collection for an undisclosed sum estimated to be near $2M. This acquisition included a bed-sheet by Kennedy. The 1997 Folk Art Messenger, Vol. 10, No.3, reported that the acquisition makes the Smithsonian American Art Museum the world's preeminent repository for American self-taught art.
"It is our desire to see them as part of the history of 20th-century American art," said Chuck Rosenak.

Mentioning Kennedy, the article notes these works were the first American collection exhibited at the Collection de l'Art Brut, Switzerland, which "testifies to its quality and uniqueness." The Leon Kennedy masterwork now resides at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, while photos of Kennedy and other materials of Kennedy's are available for study at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Maker Faire did not create or sponsor this content; and does not endorse it.

This channel is in no way associated with Maker Faire or O'Reilly Media. Maker Faire is an O'Reilly Media trademark, and Maker Faire only identifies content and services provided by O'Reilly Media and the organizations with which they have established contractual relationships.

These videos are privately produced educational documentation of Maker Faire community activity.

The Fair Use of the words "Maker Faire" in the video credits and elsewhere designates the location of these event.