Who are your favorite artists?
Dostoyevsky is my favorite novelist. His ability to paint personality pictures is amazing to me, especially as a thinking Christian which is the epitome of what I want to be.
Salvador Dali is a favorite painter. His imagination is awe inspiring but his attention to the truth of things is what gets me. I have one of his works which portrays a tiny man on the edge of the water on a beach. He holds his son’s hand and points upwards, away from a gigantic statue of Rodin’s the thinker, and toward a statue of a man standing with his head bowed. So cool!
Dave Eggers is a favorite contemporary fiction writer. I love psychological wordiness and so does he.
I actually love Spanish art most, mostly bc that’s what I’ve studied- Del Greco, somewhat obscure in his depictions of real people and things. he was a surrealist.
Goya was the master of portraits.
It was fascinating to learn about how cathedral architecture in Spain was a battlefront. The Moors would invade Spain and build their style into the cathedral. Then Christian Crusaders would “take it back” with their style. Like an Egyptian pyramid in a way.
Leo Kottke has been my favorite acoustic guitarist. He had an album known as “one Guitar, no vocals”. Couldn’t say it better. His style was percussive and trend setting. He most recently has recorded with bassist Mike Gordon of Phish. Great minds play alike!
I like to think back to high school and college as my formative music years. Phish was definitely on top the pack. But I think I started my phases with LED Zeppelin (III was my fav) then the Beatles (magical mystery tour). Also in the mix was a Nashville heralding, Chattanooga bar band, Thr Floating Men, known for unplugging and pulling up a bar stool near to you for their third set, comprised of their first album (all their hits!). I dare you not to sing along to Tall Shadows. 😉
Enough for now. Who are you inspired by?…
And don’t say Caesar, the dog whisperer. Lol
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