Jason Brown / Portrait of an Artist

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“Art comes first for him,” said Tara Lipinsky, NBC’s other commentator, and also an Olympic medalist. “Every artist has a canvas. Michelangelo used the ceiling of a chapel, Shakespeare a page. Jason Brown uses the ice.”

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It has been years and years since I had a television and could watch the Olympics, but Jason Brown was brought to my attention and YouTube gave me the opportunity to see this performance.