James de Villiers
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Location | Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Introduction | I am an artist with a wide variety of interests from art and history to music, poetry and philosophy. As well as bicycles, the Tour de France, art galleries, my cats, other peoples' cats etc. I enjoy cycling and running and challenging the mind and body to do better and go further. I enjoy looking through second hand bookshops in search of books on art history and painting techniques, philosophy and tons of other things. |
| Interests | Oil painting, drawing, photography, music, sound experiments, art history, art techniques, conceptual art, cycling, running |
| Favorite movies | Wings of Desire, The Tin Drum, Babette's Feast, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Dead Poets Society, The Fisher King, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Pulp Fiction, The Joy Luck Club, Mr. Holland's Opus, There's Something About Mary, Amelie, Water, Manon of the Spring, Fitzcarraldo, Bagdad Cafe, |
| Favorite music | Bach, Beethoven, Gorecki, Penderecki, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Kronos Quartet, Gidon Kremer, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Andi Spicer, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Quintessence, and many others too numerous to mention |
| Favorite books | What Painting Is, The Artist in his Studio, The Artist's Way, The Restaurant at the end of the universe, The Outsider, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, The Onion Eaters, The Unexpurgated Code, The Saddest Summer of Samuel S, The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman, Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule |