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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE Artist Kenneth Hari has created the portraits of over 300 people. Kenneth Hari was a child prodigy who started to create his art at 10 years old. His quest has been to record and preserve people through his art who have contributed to Mankind. Whether it be in the world of Entertainment, Science, Art, Business, Etc.

Notable Poet W.H. Auden said of Hari "Your Portraits should serve as a unification man,not as decorative ornaments. Continue your portrait work, it is excellent."

One of Kenneth Hari's subjects was Scholar,Writer,All-American,Singer,Actor,Etc. Paul Robeson. The monumental Portrait Of Paul Robeson is in the Paul Robeson Center at Rutgers University,Newark, New Jersey. The Painting was commissioned in 1979,it is an oil on linen and measures 9 feet tall Kenneth Hari was asked why such a large Painting. He was quoted "Paul Robeson, with all his accomplishments in his time, there could be no other way to Memorialize him."

Art critic Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold who wrote this article for Crisis Magazine in September 1991 at the Rutgers University Exhibition honoring Paul Robeson at Johnson and Johnson Art Gallery.

"But perhaps the most powerful of all the oil images and the single work which dominated the exhibition is the full length life-sized Kenneth Hari portrait in which Robeson stands, his back towards the viewer, his hands clasped behind him, his head turned provocatively to face out. One foot is firmly planted in front of the other, and the axis of the body tilts forward on a diagonal that suggests a powerful stride. Hari's moving painting is of a proud colossus-a giant whose vision and courage radiate from the canvas"