The disappearance of David Bowie on January 10, 2016, stunned people as much as the death of John Lennon, when it was not a murder, but the consequences of cancer.
No doubt because everyone imagined him immortal.
No doubt because, in addition to the greatness of his work, Bowie was considered apart.
And if he was, it was because he possessed the greatest of qualities: curiosity.
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David Bowie, the artist who came from elsewhere
Everything was good to feed his art.
He was interested in diverse and varied music, was passionate about the avant-garde, adored painting.
He loved Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, was very wary of the supposed talents of Damien Hirst, the man who featured animals sliced in formalin, and revered the painters of the Weimar Republic, deemed decadent by the Nazis.
A cultivated rocker
And then there was literature… Literate rockers are not legion, with a few exceptions - Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave or his friend Iggy Pop - and rockers
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