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Wesley Duke Lee (São Paulo, December 21, 1931 - São Paulo, September 12, 2010) was a Brazilian painter. Lee was a grandson of Americans and Portuguese and started his learning of art in the drawing course of São Paulo Museum of Art, in 1951. In the following year, he moved to the United States to study in the Parsons and in the AIGA, in New York, until 1955. Then, he knew the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly and the Pop art in general. Back to Brazil, Lee quit the advertising career and studied painting with Karl Plattner, joining Plattner in a trip to Italy and Austria until 1960. Lee also travels to Paris, where he attends classes in the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and in the atelier of Johnny Friedlaender. After returning to Brazil, in 1963, Lee begins to work with young artists and performed the happening ''O Grande Espetáculo das Artes'' ("The Great Spectacle of Arts" in Portuguese) at the João Sebastião Bar, in São Paulo. That was considered one of the most pioneer happenings in Brazil. With Maria Cecília, Bernardo Cid, Otto Stupakoff and Pedro Manuel Gismondi, among others, he tried to establish a group dedicated to magic realism. In 1966, he joined a group named "Grupo Rex" but it lasted only until 1967. Lee died on September 12, 2010, in São Paulo, at the age 78, due to pulmonary aspiration and cardiac arrest. ==References== * (Artist Wesley Duke Lee dies at the age 78, in São Paulo ) Folha.com - accessed on September 13, 2010 *(Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wesley Duke Lee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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