Le Gran Directeur and Provocateur of the Great State of Art

A western version of Tantras

18x18 inches. 2012

Holland is the grandson of Kay Spydell, a neighbor of Anonymous.

In the opinion of  that infamous art critic Bob Matheny, this is a remarkable and unique painting.

Holland was born in 2000.

A remarkable Japanese artist.

http://www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/aboutFilm.htm

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Go to the website above and learn something really interesting about  this amazing and extraordinary artist.

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He was a dashing Hungarian.

c. 1859

He was almost the greatest keyboard virtuoso the world has ever known and perhaps the most “showy.”

Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Swed recently reported that “An 1842 caricature of the dashing Hungarian at the

piano on stage in Berlin shows him as clearly the prototype for the modern rock star. With his left hand on the keys, he is waving to his mostly female audience with his right. The women sway, swoon, drink wine, blush, push close to the stage, fling flowers and examine thru the opera glasses every inch of the long- haired and leonine (handsome lion) Liszt. The atmoshere is as sexually charged as a Beatle concert a century -and-a-quarter later, when a small wave from Paul was all it took to arouse hysterical screams from teenage girls.”

Mark Swed continues: “Has anyone ever called Liszt the first feminist? Perhaps he was that too. He helped liberate 19th century women by tempting them to flout social conventions, making frank public expressions of female sexuality fashionable. ‘Lisztomania’ was the term the German poet Heinrich Heine coined at the time for this mass hysteria. Shocked by such displays, medical men investigated what they believed must be an underlying pathology infecting these ladies.”

Besides being a sex idol of the times, Franz Liszt retired from the concert state at 35 and lived 40 more years, after perhaps the most extraordinary career in all of music and the visual arts, which makes this year the 125th anniversary of his death.

c. 1865

The Le Gran Director of the Great State of Mind Lisztomania.

c. 1849