Word: artiste
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...experience of imagining music is much the same as listening to it. Also, that the corpus callosum, the mass of nerve fibers that wire the two hemispheres of the brain together, is enlarged in professional musicians. "Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician," Sacks writes, "but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment's hesitation." Yet he worries that by reducing music to a set of neurological functions, "the simple art of observation may be lost ... clinical description may become perfunctory...
...were a dancer for a while. Now you weave, keep journals, make pinch pots from clay...What made you want to be an artist...
...always wanted to be an artist, to make things. I am very dyslexic and wasn’t a good student in school, so I would doodle while the teacher gave arithmetic assignments. I would put 2 and 2 equals 8 and doodle all around...
...during amateur nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic cheers. The show’s acts varied in genre as well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn’t always determined by talent: the undergraduate dance group Expressions kicked off the night with a high-tech display, and the audience was quick to boo a glitch in the sound...
...actively engage with the poem and consider the context out of which it grows. This fragmentation combines with Valentine’s use of internal monologue to lend the collection a dream-like tone. In these fragmented dreams, the disturbing becomes beautiful. In “The Artist in Prison,” Valentine delicately describes a prisoner with a life sentence, trading simple things such as cigarettes “for socks / for their threads...to embroider little / pictures” for someone else. This single action simply reveals the beauty of life. Even in oppressive, seemingly eternal captivity...