DID YOU KNOW: ...... Norman Raeben (1901-1978) was one of the most influential people in Bob Dylans life. Dylans interest in Norman began sometime in 1974. It was the spring of 1974 when Dylan popped his head around Normans door. Norman Raeben, born in Russia in 1901, who visited the USA with his family when be was three years old and emigrated for permanent residence when he was about 14. Normans father was the noted Yiddish writer, Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), a man best known today for having created the character Tvye, whose fictional life-story was adapted for the musical, Fiddler On The Roof. The most remarkable change brought about by the months Dylan spent in Norman Raebens studio was upon the way Dylan composed lyrics. Dylan described the guy as giving him a whole other view of art, which led to the music and lyrics of Blood on the Tracks. Dylan attended his classes in NYC during May-July 74, and later recalled that Raeben taught me how to see in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt....I wasnt sure it could be done in songs because Id never written a song like that. But when I started doing it, the first album I made was BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. Raeben, Norman (1901-1978) He studied painting from Robert Henri, George Luks and John French Sloan, who all belonged to the Ashcan School. His studio was on the 11th floor of Carnegie Hall. Raebens mission was to teach the art of painting through intuition and feeling, instead of through conceptualization. During the seventies, his inspiring lessons ran counter to the then prevalent conceptualism of contemporary mainstream art. Bob Dylan was mystified, at first, by Normans didactic insistence on perceptual honesty, i.e. on not exaggerating the truth of what was seen, when first learning the basics of drawing.
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