The art of Donna Summer reflects her lifelong ability to see people in terms of music and to find harmony and balance within each person she portrays. As she describes in her autobiography Ordinary Girl: The Journey, “The difference between painting and performing for me is that at the end of a concert, there is nothing left except a sense of elation that diminishes with time. With painting, whatever I put down on the canvas is there when I wake up the next day and forever. In that way, it’s more like a recording than an event—more permanent, like a live album of a show, rather than the show itself.”
 

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