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Henry Flynt
American Artist
Born: 1940
Art Began Music Painting Time Work
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. Henry Flynt
Work Music Time Best Musicians Class Dignity People Listening Black Think Despised Worst Black Music Greatest Doing Were Accorded Began Did Same Same Time Lower Lower Class Who Receiving Treatment
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Henry Flynt
Music Time Painting Harvard About Student Abstract Well Well Known Known Learned Were Jackson Where So-Called Avant-Garde Expressionism
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. Henry Flynt
Music Imitative Visual Composing About Terms Also Were Began Very Being Which Interested Translating Works
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. Henry Flynt
Music Other Indian Indian Music Classical New Discovered Began North York Artists New York Competing
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Henry Flynt
Work Art Saw Kind Individual Another Making Imposition Dictator Person Taste Any Viewed Basically
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. Henry Flynt
Thought Nothing Backing About Because Around Dogmatic False Began Just Decided Much Away Utopian
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. Henry Flynt
Culture Drive Extreme Carried Objectification Dirt Point Part Almost Towards Subject Western Western Culture Human Where Which Whole Works Serious Watch Treated
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language. Henry Flynt
Art Language Kind Bound Since Concept Concepts Material Up Closely Which

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