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    "Foundation of the Blues" captures Delta blues pioneer Robert Johnson in a dapper suit, guitar in hand, the central focus against a curling mass of rainbow hues for a look evocative of a legendary painter. "The technique is really taken from Jackson Pollock ... But I don't do my work on the floor." Further evidence of stylistic dexterity is found in "Jazzman of Avant-Garde," depicting saxophonist David Murray -- a cousin of Hackett's -- with a caricaturish, Al Hirschfeld-esque flair. Full Article at Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com
    The technique is really taken from Jackson Pollock ... But I don't do my work on the floor.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
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  1. It's abstract, but with a heavy flavor of realism ... I put abstract in my work because that's what these guys were playing, abstract music. They didn't play a straight line or abide by all the rules that were set down. They used that, but they absorbed it into their own renditions and changed it.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  2. These men were not very flamboyant -- there were a few, like Dizzy Gillespie, but most were almost like businessmen, practicing their craft onstage.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  3. These men onstage, they were very serious onstage and that's what I try to bring out in my paintings
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  4. I took that from an old cutout from a 1946 magazine ... They were tapping their feet and snapping their fingers, really showing how the blues began.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  5. He was unique ... He was avant-garde, but he organized it. He didn't want to get away from structure completely, he wanted his audience to understand it.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  6. I paint lots of things but jazz is my favorite because I just fit right in. I can put myself into the image and the mannerisms of these men and women who were in the music. I was in the clubs and saw how they performed.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  7. When she got onstage ... she made the music talk.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago
  8. Lester Young went through a lot, he got damaged pretty bad psychologically, especially when he went into the army. He was abused and he never got over it.
    SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com 1 month ago

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