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1916 Valley Head, Alabama - 2001 Rome, Georgia. Known for: Naive religious-words, folk art constructions.
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to guide them through the maze of symbolic sculptures, structures including a John Deer tractor and the Tomb of the Unknown Body. Indeed he has become a much-loved man for the vigor of his beliefs and his compassion towards others. Except for a book of... Read full biography
For forty years, Howard Finster was a minister. After retirement, he lived in Summerville, Georgia, and constructed a garden dedicated to his religious beliefs. Called "Paradise Gardens Park and Museum," it has become a fantastic world created from found objects-- fragments of mirrors, salvaged refrigerator doors, concrete walls, hubcaps, mosaic cement paths, and a pump house of Coca-Cola bottles---all to the glory of the Lord. Finster appeared regularly on Sundays to great visitors and to guide them through the maze of symbolic sculptures, structures including a John Deer tractor and the Tomb of the Unknown Body. Indeed he has become a much-loved man for the vigor of his beliefs and his compassion towards others. Except for a book of drawings he did in the 1930s, he did not do paintings until 1976 when he had a vision to do sacred art. He began to... Read full biography
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Keywords (33)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
- •Words, Text, Calligraphy, Letters
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Colored Pencil
- •Enamel Paint
- •Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
- •Ink
- •Marble
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Mosaics, Intarsia
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Plastics
- •Plexiglas
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Folk Art, Folk Lore
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Commercial Art and Design
- •Outsider Art