Brion gysin biography of barack

British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist

Brion Gysin (19 January – 13 July ) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices.

He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs.

Brion gysin biography of barack obama

With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script.

Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."^[1]

Biography

Early years

John Clifford Brian Gysin was born at the Canadian military hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.^[2] His mother, Stella Margaret Martin, was a Canadian from Deseronto, Ontario.

His father,