Fascinating Art Show Presented By Yanni Posnakoff

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With gaily painted kites flying, a mermaid of sand and gay coloured castles made by the children on the beach, Y anni Poskanoff presented his Art Show at the Coral Caymanian hotel from 1 to 4 p.m, on Sunday afternoon last, Inside, around the walls of the Dining Room and Bar were a selection of drawings created by this talented artist and the foyer was adorned with four extremely colourful paintings. Included were small one line drawings, i.e. pictures made by one continuous line, not lifting the pencil from the paper at all until the drawing is complete. The visit of Yanni and Miss Toni Bernstein from New York was much appreciated by all with whom he shared his gifts in the realm of art and specially admired were his sculptures in coral rocks which he picked up from our beach, Mr. Yanni Posnakoff, who was born in Salonica, Greece, in 1933 and studied at the Superior School of Marine Engineers, Piraeus; the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won many awards. Amongst his achievements are eight prizes for scholastic achievements from the Greek Maritime Academy, the Fullbright Scholarship-Institute of International Education, an M.I.T. Scholarship and a Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation. Yanni also illustrated the intriguing book "Children's Letters to God" compiled by Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample which those who subscribe to The Reader's Digest (Canadian edition for March '67) may have read about. In commending one of Yanni's many Exhibitions in America to the public who are interested in American artists, an Art Adviser describes him as, "an artist and philosopher," and continues, "His subjects are varied and boundless and his compassion seems to express itself in almost every canvass. Working in all media, he has created paintings which will definitely become collectors items."