Nominations are accepted from any member of the United States Sports Academy's worldwide family. Given the number and quality of candidates for the Sport Artist of the Year 2001, the Selection Committee, for the first time ever, selected Co-Sport Artists of the Year. This decision directly reflected the ability of the many artists in the pool of candidates. The Co-Sport Artists of the Year 2001 are painter Daniel You and sculptor Richard MacDonald. You, the son of a Vietnamese father and a French mother, lives in Paris.
Human nature reveals all the landscapes of the world.
When I paint humans, I paint nature. You paints on the border of dream and reality, and in his work, he expresses the balance between force and sensuality, and poise and movement. He maintains that when you observe the immobile figures he paints you discover that they breath. When you listen to the silence of the canvas you will hear their cry. You was recommended to the Selection Committee by Sport Artist of the Year 2000 Charles Billich.