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| | CNN.com - arts & style - Ethiopians enticed to appreciate modern art - December 29, 2000 |
 | | The Taitu International Art Center is the result of a chance encounter between Fitsum Zeab Asgedom, a 38-year-old Ethiopian entrepreneur whose family is in the printing business, and Bertrand Lefort, a 24-year-old Frenchman better known as Leo, with a degree in fine arts and a head brimming with ideas. |
 | | The stylized figures with oval faces and round, white eyes outlined in fl are synonymous with Ethiopian art, which remained static until the middle of the last century when Emperor Haile Selassie, who spent six years in exile in England during the Italian occupation, agreed to establish a university and an art school. |
 | | Merid Tafesse, a 26-year-old with spiky hair and fashionable tiny glasses, scrawled a fl charcoal abstract over a white wall of one of Taitu's smaller exhibit rooms, knowing in advance that his contribution would be painted over at the end of the show. |
| archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/12/29/ethiopian.art.ap (1316 words) |
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