Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.

Greenfield called Jackson an “iconoclast,” and this contrarian spirit is integral to an artist who is dubious of sacred cows.

There was something hopeful about the iconoclast in O.J., for he dared to defy the limits placed on his Black self.

Yet even on a day — officially “Jaromir Jagr Day” in Pittsburgh — there were still hints of the iconoclast whose passion for the game he’s helped redefine outweighs everything else.

He was reverent and rude, a very knowledgeable man and an iconoclast, smalltown and metropolitan at the same time.