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SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS

This and related pages are a listing of people, artists, thinkers etc. who have influenced my work.

NOTE: Like so many of my Internet projects this is just the beginning. Over time I hope to add links to relevant sites, examples of work etc. Stay tuned.

This is a listing of over 100 people and movements that have and are affecting my work.

No one works out of a vacuum. We take what others have developed, combine that with our own unique ideas and ideas from still other artists, add our own twist and perspective and particular skills and viola you have artwork.

The point of this listing is NOT to say that these are the best artists to the exclusion of others. These are simply the people that I became aware of and that grabbed me in such a way that they influenced my work. I am sure that there are many that I missed or did not have time for or that I didn't respond to because I was not receptive at the time. In any case my response was personal (how could it be otherwise) and heartfelt.

MAJOR INFLUENCES:

SIBELIUS, JEAN

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN

WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE

BERGMAN, INGMAR

NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH

FELLINI, FEDERICO

VAN GOGH, VINCENT

KEROUAC, JACK

CALDER, ALEXANDER

MATISSE, HENRI

KANDINSKY, WASSILY

KLEE, PAUL

ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS (T.S.)

POLLOCK, JACKSON

STEICHEN, EDWARD

CARTIER -BRESSON, HENRI

WOLS (SCHULZE, WOLFGANG)

BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN

JUNG, CARL GUSTAV

SEURAT, GEORGES

EVANS, WALKER

ARBUS, DIANE

MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD

ARCHITECTS:

Islamic - esp the Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain
Gaudi, Antonio
Wright, Frank Lloyd

CLASSICAL MUSIC:

Bach, J.S. (esp. keyboard works performed by Glenn Gould)
Bartók, Béla
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Brahms, Johannes
Chopin, Frédéric
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (esp. Requiem Mass)
Ravel, Maurice
Schubert, Franz
Sibelius, Jean
Stravinsky, Igor

FILM:

Bergman, Ingmar
Cassablanca (of course)
Film Noir (see below)
Fellinni, Frederico (esp. 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita)
Hitchcock, Alfred
Kubrick, Stanley
On the Waterfront - Kazan, Elia
The Last Picture Show - Bogdanovich, Peter

NOTE: See my original photographic animations and
read a review in a major British film journal
about my animations:
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PAINTERS:

Albers, Josef
Boccioni, Umberto (States of Mind series)
Cézanne, Paul (landscapes)
De Staël, Nicolas
Duchamp, Marcel
Dürer, Albrecht (esp. woodcuts)
Giotto, di Bondone
Gorky, Arshile
Hofmann, Hans
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Kandinsky, Wassily
Klee, Paul
Leonardo da Vinci (notebooks)
Louis, Morris
Matisse, Henri
Mirň, Joan
Mondrian, Piet
Monet, Claude
Pollock, Jackson
Rembrant (drawings)
Seurat, Georges
van Gogh, Vincent
Vermeer, Jan
Wols (Schulze, Wolfgang)

PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Adams, Ansel
Arbus, Diane
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Evans, Walker
Family of Man (Steichen, Editor)
Lartigue, Jacques Henri
Muybridge, Eadweard
Weston, Edward

NOTE: See my online digital photographs:

NOTE: See my Eadweard Muybridge photographs transformed by the computer:

POETS:

Dickinson, Emily
Eliot, T.S. (esp. 4 quartets)
Haiku and Oriental poetry
Williams, W.C.
Yeats, William Butler

NOTE: Read some of my recently published haiku poetry:

SCULPTORS:

Brancusi, Constantin
Calder, Alexander
Giacometti, Alberto
Michelangelo, Buonarroti (esp. unfinished)
Noguchi, Isamu
Picasso, Pablo (sculpture)
Smith, David

THINKERS:

Einstein, Albert
Freud, Sigmund
Fuller, Buckminster
Gamow, George (coined the term "Big Bang")
Graves, Robert
Jung, Carl
King, Martin Luther
Maslow, Abraham
McCluhan, Marshall
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Plato

NOTE: Read my short essays about where we came from,
where we are now and where we are going:
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NOTE: Read my lengthy essays about the modern world:

WRITERS AND PLAYWRIGHTS:

Anderson, Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Kerouac, Jack (On the Road)
Miller, Arthur (Death of a Salesman)
Russian Short Stories
Williams, Tennesse

NOTE: Read and perform my monologues and one act play
(free to non-profits and students):

NOTE: Read my short-short stories about the experience of love at different ages:
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NEW AND CONTEMPORARY INFLUENCES:

Banks, Russell (short stories)
Barber, Samuel
Bentley, W. A. (snowflakes)
Kovacs, Ernie
Field, John (nocturnes)
Górecki, Henryk - Symphony No. 3 (Smyphony of Sorrowful Songs)
Glass, Philip
Haring, Keith
Hovaness, Alan
Jarrett, Keith
Judd, Donald
Mann, Micheal director (esp. his use of color in Miami Vice and Last of the Mohicans)
Swing Music (Goodman, Miller)
Videos on AMP (MTV 2AM, Sunday)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (film)
When Night is Falling (film), Patricia Rozema (writer, director)

See my transformed and colorful snowflakes from the work of W:A: Bentley:

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POP CULTURE:

Beatles
Blind Faith
Brubeck, Dave
Cline, Patsy
Cream
Doors
Duets by Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner
Dylan, Bob
Everly Brothers
Holly, Buddy
Jefferson Airplane (1st album)
Joplin, Janis
Presley, Elvis (early Sun recordings)
Rolling Stones

SCHOOLS/FORMS/MOVEMENTS/:

ANCIENT AND HISTORIC ART:

DADA/SURREALISTS:

FILM NOIR:

GERMAN AND OTHER EXPRESSIONISTS
PLUS OTHER MODERN EUROPEAN ARTISTS:

NEW YORK ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS
AND OTHER AMERICAN PAINTERS:

FOLK ART/OUTSIDER ART/ART BRUT/
NAIVE ART/PRIMITIVE ART: