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sonja

About Me

i began to paint in new orleans a few years ago while studying jazz piano. painting moved to the forefront, but would be unthinkable without my passionate love of jazz music, from which i draw my biggest inspiration. i especially like the art of (in no particular order) francis bacon, edward hopper, lucian freud, turner, titian, caravaggio, david hockney, whistler, antonio lopez, odd nerdrum, ernst ludwig kirchner, anselm kiefer, mark tansey, eric fischl, nigel cox, many more i'll think of later... lived in vienna, toronto, new orleans and new york, and i am currently painting and exploring in cairo.visit my website, if you are so inclined. www.sonjamoser.com /

My Interests

painting, traditional shaolin kung fu, jazz piano, history, russian and eastern-european literature, philosophy, languages (right now, arabic)

I'd like to meet:

would have liked to meet joseph brodsky, nobel Prize laureate for literature

Music:

paul bley, andrew hill, keith jarrett, brad mehldau, juergen friedrich, marilyn crispell, chick corea, charlie haden, jason moran, coltrane, t.monk, gonzales rubalcaba, bobo stenson, tim berne, john ellis, aaron goldberg, kurt rosenwinkel, django bates, henry threadgill, rabih abou-khalil, nick drake, a. schnittke, schoenberg, bartok, shostakovich

Movies:

anything by tarkovsky, particularly 'andrei rublev', all films by fassbinder, kurasawa, kubrick, apocalypse now

Television:

no thanks!

Books:

joseph brodsky, jorge luis borges, isaiah berlin, michael ignatieff, w.g.sebald, baudrillard, hannah arendt, anna akhmatova, osip mandelstam, peter sloterdijk