7 books that made me want to be an artist:
1. Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
2. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
3. Knut Hamsun, Hunger
4. Jack Kerouac, On The Road
5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground
6. T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
7. Paul Auster, New York Trilogy
Miroslav Tichy, one of my favorite artists:
With cameras that he himself skillfully and imaginatively cobbled together from old tins, toilet rolls and cigarette boxes, spectacle lenses or lenses cut with a knife from Plexiglas, in the 1970s and 80s Miroslav Tichý took over a hundred shots a day of women in his small hometown in Moravia.Tichý’s working methods have little to do with conventional artistic praxis. His camera at the ready, he would observe the daily round of the female population of his native town, in a matter of seconds snapping shots from his hip, and instantly concealing the strange device again. The result of those forays are shots of women at the market, in the swimming pool, at work, in pubs, in the streets and public squares. he’s taken thousands of shots Fifty years, and he’s never shown them to anyone, all just for himself.
1. Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
2. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
3. Knut Hamsun, Hunger
4. Jack Kerouac, On The Road
5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From the Underground
6. T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland
7. Paul Auster, New York Trilogy
Miroslav Tichy, one of my favorite artists:
With cameras that he himself skillfully and imaginatively cobbled together from old tins, toilet rolls and cigarette boxes, spectacle lenses or lenses cut with a knife from Plexiglas, in the 1970s and 80s Miroslav Tichý took over a hundred shots a day of women in his small hometown in Moravia.Tichý’s working methods have little to do with conventional artistic praxis. His camera at the ready, he would observe the daily round of the female population of his native town, in a matter of seconds snapping shots from his hip, and instantly concealing the strange device again. The result of those forays are shots of women at the market, in the swimming pool, at work, in pubs, in the streets and public squares. he’s taken thousands of shots Fifty years, and he’s never shown them to anyone, all just for himself.
There Will Be Blood
P.T. Anderson’s American masterpiece. This epic of oil, blood, greed, religion, and madness is really about America at the crossroads of the 20th century. Daniel Day-Lewis is mesmerizing as the vortex tearing everything around him to pieces. Truly original.
P.T. Anderson’s American masterpiece. This epic of oil, blood, greed, religion, and madness is really about America at the crossroads of the 20th century. Daniel Day-Lewis is mesmerizing as the vortex tearing everything around him to pieces. Truly original.
