Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching 36 year-old Zhang Yuan's films is like walking through a Rorscharchian gallery--viewers' reactions reveal not only their psychological bias and perspective on society, but also the goal of Zhang's underlying artistic project. Unlike the majority of Chinese filmmakers today who make appeasingly jovial movies, Zhang sees his work as social stimuli. It is telling that he prefers to be called an "artist" rather than a "filmmaker...
...Influenced by German artist Kthe Kollwitz (1867 - 1945), Zhang's films capture struggle and pain without victimizing the subject. Zhang reduces life to its most basic elements-the individual and the interpersonal--and makes moments timeless. Unlike China's more commercial directors such as Feng Xiaogang, Zhang is not trying to play to a popular trope but to create a work of art that "could be seen 500 years ago or 500 years in the future and still be relevant...
...Owning one Ben Harper album will inevitably cause the ownership of his whole repertoire. It's one of those ethical imperatives. Harper is one artist who truly deserves every ounce of success he has awaiting him. However, at times, this end is wished for so much that we forget to confer patience upon this artist who is diligently working towards finding his own identity. But stumble or fall, I don't doubt that Harper will eventually succeed...
...have a track on the recently released Handsome Boy Modeling School compilation. On that song, "Metaphysical," you're singing with Mike D from the Beastie Boys. How important are side projects like this to you as an artist...
...mystically minded Jarrett suspects there was more to his latest CD than the right piano at the right time. "There was something deep going on," he says matter-of-factly, and he might be onto something. Sometimes a great artist does everything right and nothing happens; sometimes a sick man sits down carefully at the piano and suddenly finds himself 10 ft. off the ground. The trick, as Jarrett says, and the pleasure for listeners to this recording, is to be ready for anything, even a little miracle...