Marilyn Monroe Life Size , City of Sirloc , Self Portrait. Oblin , Colician City, Visions of Other Worlds , Robert Funk Fine Art. Red Ant , The Empty Road , Clock Box , — Angel Baby with Coca Cola , Art Lamp , Story Map of The United Staes , More Than a Piece of Cloth Flag , Finster began building his everchanging environmental sculpture, Paradise Garden, on swampy land behind his house in the early s.
Perhaps it was no less miraculous that a Baptist preacher from the tiny town of Pennville commanded the attention of the art world. Finster loved an audience. He was a larger-than-life personality with a devoted following long before he appeared on the Johnny Carson Show or in an R.
For his speaking engagements, he wore a powder-blue suit and had his banjo at the ready. Born in Valley Head, Alabama, Finster was one of thirteen children.
At sixteen he preached his first sermon. In the s, he hosted a radio program and wrote a column for the local newspaper. He had a great sense of humor, which he used in the service of the Word.
Finster never tired of telling the story of how he came to be an artist. I know professionals can, but not me. In the s, he began constructing Paradise Garden, a two-acre spiritual environment at his home in Pennville.
His plan was to display all the inventions of mankind. He made thousands of works of art that often combine written words with his own vocabulary of visual images. At home Finster would kick back on his studio couch witha chaw of tobacco in his cheek and carry on a stream-of-consciousness monologue for hours. Like a perpetual-motion machine, he seemed to gain energy from his own oration.
They sold a million records in the first two and a half months after it come out, so that's twenty-six million verses I got out into the world in two and a half months! Selected Exhibitions , Man Up! Man Down! Tuchman, Maurice and Carol S. Eliel, eds. Turner, John F.
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