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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Performers
Post Subject: Content and contextPosted by yoshi on: 8/27/2007

 Romy the Cat wrote:

Still, although a certain level of expressionism and intentions might be found in the better players from the jazz’s past but unfortunately even that music is very one-dimensional and very lightly content-loaded.



This, seems to me, is like comparing the work of Francisco de Goya to that of Jackson Pollock. 

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Goya "Nude Maja" 1799~1800

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Pollock "Number 1" 1950

Pollock worked in a different historical/personal context and landed himself on a different style of abstraction propelled by his own inner demons. 

Honestly speaking, I have a doubt about art that is context dependant in a closed circuit, and they may well be regarded as some kind of mutation after 100 years from now.  But it has to be talked in a wider context and not as a direct comparison of their works.

Yoshi

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