Zitat des Tages über Expressionismus / Expressionism:
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.