Robert Brinkerhoff

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Professor/Illustrator
Location Rhode Island, United States
Introduction Vita brevis, ars longa. And fugit hora. Yep. Don't forget fugit hora.
Interests Rome, Italian, Italy, Ireland, Norse mythology, art, design, painting, film, drawing, poetry, teaching, running, marathons, track and field, Caravaggio, Bernini, Sally Mann, William Carlos Williams, Paul Klee, Grayson Perry, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Tim Hawkinson, Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Gabriel Orozco, Robert Wilson, Brian Cronin, Ermino Pinzo, Aubrey Beardsley, Kolomon Moser, Ludwig Hohlwein, Cimabue, Giotto di Bondone, Sebastiano del Piombo, Antonio da Correggio, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Illustration, Dante Alighieri, Fra Angelico, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Zorn Anders
Favorite Movies Toto le Heroes, 8 1/2, Persona, Babette's Feast, Stranger Than Paradise, The Spanish Prisoner, Garden State, American Beauty, The Wizard of Oz, Notorious, Burden of Dreams, Wings of Desire, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Magnolia, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Rashomon, Judy Berlin, L.I.E., La Dolce Vita, Divorzio all'Italiana, Le Fate Ignoranti, Weekend
Favorite Music Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Billie Holliday, Etta James, Rufus Wainwright, Wilco, Andrew Bird, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Beck, Cake, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Ruben Gonzales, Stephen Foster, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Sufjan Stevens, Feist, Palestrina, Zero 7, Inda Arie, Verve, Blue Note, Daniel Lanois, The Flaming Lips, Janis Joplin, The Pointer Sisters, (but only the old stuff from early to mid-70's), STAX, Etta James, etc.
Favorite Books Mortimer Adler, Robertson Davies, John Irving, Charles Dickens, Wiliam Styron, Walker Percy, Raymond Carver, Michael Chabon, Dante Alghieri, Annie Dillard, etc.