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Uniting Painting

by Ranan R. Lurie, artist and political cartoonist

Ranan L. Lurie, named the most mobile on canvas; then moves
widely syndicated political car- to the stairway where it
toonist in the World by the becomes a carpet before head-
Guinness Book of World ing out the door towards the UN
Records, unveiled his Uniting Garden. The colours up till this
Painting at the United Nations point are various kinds of blues,
Secretariat in New York on 1 white and black flowing in a
November last year in presence ribbon-candy like design. Just
of Ms Nane Annan, Mr Tharoor, outside the entrance the colours
Under-Secretary-General of change to reds and yellows, as
Communications and Public the design remains unchanged,
Information and numerous and the Painting, now on con-
members of the diplomatic crete, moves across the plaza
corps. and up a retaining wall. The
Painting, in the same colours From left Mr Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General of
The idea for the Uniting Painting and design, can next be seen in Communications and Public Information, the Artist Mr Ranan
dates back to the mid 60ies, and the middle of the New York's Lurie, Ms Nane Annan and Mrs Lurie in front of the painting.
was financed entirely by Mr. East River on Roosevelt Island,
Lurie himself. The painting uti- and will from point will reap-
lizes many mediums, and from pear on the other side of the
its beginning in the ceiling of the Atlantic Ocean. England,
Visitors Lobby of the Greece, Cyprus, and Israel have
Secretariat, it moves through the all agreed to have the painting
air where it taking the form of a enter their countries.

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