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Re: Was Picasso Apolitical?
Posted by Marcello (Guest) georgiomalik@yahoo.com - Saturday, January 22 2011, 6:06:57 (UTC)
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As much as my friends disagree with me, I do believe in putting in the time to study those who came before. Woody Allen lasted less than a week at NYU, but it didn't stop him from learning from past and contrmporary filmmakers. I was watching one of his early works, "Bananas", with a friend who had gone to film school, and he (who went UCLA) could not understand the refrences Allen was making to Sergei Eisenstein's "The Battle Ship Potemkin" or the horrible film starring Omar Sharif as "Che". Where as I, the "drop out", immediately caught on to it and found it both necessary and absolutely funny; my friend, on the other hand, didn't get it, and thought "What's the big deal with Woody Allen"? Of course, this same friend can tell me how much Spielberg's "Jaws" grossed -- something I find repulsive and futile, having nothing to do with film art.

In Jazz, I've come across musicians who think if they "shot dope" they can play like Miles or Coltrane, forgetting the fact that both Miles Davis and John Coltrane were seriously trained from an early age, and that the music they played in the '60s which sounded "out" or Avante Garde, did so not because they were "shooting dope" but because they knew what they were doing and why? Jimi Hendrix couldn't read music, but was a genius who revolutionised the way electric guitar is being played in rock music. When he played "The Star Spangeled Banner" in 1969 they way he did (violent and discordant), it wasn't because he didn't know how to read or play, it was because he felt the American Revolution and the Vietnam War were violent and discordant. If you listen to Jimi Hendrix play the blues, even if you don't like his sound, you will appreciate his style and soulfulness.

As for Henry Miller, I've been trying to read "The Tropic of Cancer" but I always put it down because I don't want it to end... He never pulls any punches.

...As for Dali, I'd have to go back and look at the works from the early '30s and decide if I liked them because of their content, or because I was young and on LSD. I did not know that he was a supporter of Franco. The Spanish surrealist filmmaker, Luis Bunuel, a steadfast ant-fascist, made his first two films with Dali: "Un Chien Andalou" and "L'Age D'Or"... How people change and why?



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