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The Independent
December 8, 2011
And then there were four: Ringo picks up his paintbrush
The drummer has followed the example of his fellow Beatles by turning his hand to art. His multicoloured revolver statue, unveiled yesterday, is a tribute to John Lennon. But what will it do for his own creative reputation ? Asked to gauge Ringo Starr's musical abilities, John Lennon joked: "He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles." But could the drummer yet prove the finest artist among the prodigiously-talented group after unveiling his first public sculpture? Starr, 71, yesterday unveiled his own artistic tribute to Lennon, on the 31st anniversary of his former colleague's murder. The statue was Starr's own take on the "knotted gun" sculpture which stands outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The original bronze work, Non-Violence, with its distinctive twisted gun muzzle, was created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd as a memorial tribute to Lennon after he was shot on 8 December 1980 in New York.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/and-then-there-were-four-ringo-picks-up-his-paintbrush-6274451.html
December 8, 2011
And then there were four: Ringo picks up his paintbrush
The drummer has followed the example of his fellow Beatles by turning his hand to art. His multicoloured revolver statue, unveiled yesterday, is a tribute to John Lennon. But what will it do for his own creative reputation ? Asked to gauge Ringo Starr's musical abilities, John Lennon joked: "He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles." But could the drummer yet prove the finest artist among the prodigiously-talented group after unveiling his first public sculpture? Starr, 71, yesterday unveiled his own artistic tribute to Lennon, on the 31st anniversary of his former colleague's murder. The statue was Starr's own take on the "knotted gun" sculpture which stands outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The original bronze work, Non-Violence, with its distinctive twisted gun muzzle, was created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd as a memorial tribute to Lennon after he was shot on 8 December 1980 in New York.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/and-then-there-were-four-ringo-picks-up-his-paintbrush-6274451.html