Andrus Rõuk
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Andrus Rõuk (born 28 September 1957, in Tallinn) is an Estonian artist and poet.
In 1981, in the 9th number of the literary journal Looming his poem "Silmades taevas ja meri" ("In the eyes sky and sea") appeared. It is an acrostic: the first letters of the verses read "SINIMUSTVALGE" ("blue-black-white"), the colours of the national flag of Estonia (at a time when Estonia was occupied and the use of national flag was forbidden; the flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was mostly red with some blue and white). For this he was excluded from the Estonian State Institute of Arts (currently Estonian Academy of Arts).[1]
References[]
- ^ Teet Kallas. "Sinimustvalge sügis 1981". In: Looming 1998, 4, pp 617–625.
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Estonian artists
- Estonian male poets
- People from Tallinn
- 20th-century Estonian poets
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class
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- European painter stubs