John Aloysius Fahey was born in Takoma Park, MD into a musical household--both his parents played the piano. On weekends, the family often attended performances of top country and bluegrass groups of the day, but it was hearing Bill Monroe's version of Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel No. 7" on the radio

Baroque, Hypnotic, Kaleidoscopic, Psychedelic, Repetition, Rhythmic, Sardonic

Charles Norton was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from the University of California, San Diego, where he received a degree in Art History and Criticism, he went on to pursue freelance work as a retail visual designer working with an array of luxury retail brands. He remains a devoted

Abstract, Chance, Conceptual, Dissonant, Fleeting, Sardonic, Sensual, Spectral

Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, CC, OQ (June 25, 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. One of Québec's most politically aware filmmakers, Denys Arcand studied history at Université de Montréal, where he co-directed Seul ou avec d'autres (1962) with Den

Contemplative, Funny, Political, Sardonic, Social revolution

Sigmar Polke was born in 1941 in Silesia, then part of East Germany and now present-day Poland. At the age of twelve his family left the Socialist East and moved to Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, where he grew up in the increasingly affluent society of former West Germany. He studied art at the Staat

Complex, Layered, Political, Sardonic