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Saturday, April 29. 2017

Bob Dylan's painting

I think Bob takes his painting seriously. If he did not, I do not think he would agree to exhibit it.He seems to be a skilled amateur whose name lends weight to his artistic efforts, same as it does with Churchill's (or George Bush's for that matter).


Seems like he paints more from photos or from his imagination that plein air, but how could he? Well, I guess he could at his place in Scotland.


Bob Dylan: a Hockney-like painter of America's strange essence


Painting is an excellent hobby, endlessly challenging and never dull. I'd love to get back into it, but there is always so much to do at the HQ.


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Full disclosure: I am a huge Bob Dylan fan and have been for many many years. Sooo...has anyone else heard the theory that Bob Dylan's 'career' as a painter is actually a prank? That it's a joke on the art world and, by extension, us...at first it sounded beyond ridiculous, but after reading these arguments for it I had to admit that this might be what's happening.

http://greg.org/archive/2012/12/05/if_he_did_it.html

"All I could come up with was a conspiracy theory cooked up by a friend, that both of Mr. Dylan's shows at Gagosian are actually the work of Richard Prince using "Bob Dylan" as a pseudonym, making the ultimate statement on art and artifice, and proving once and for all that Bob Dylan is whoever you want him to be."

http://animalnewyork.com/2012/bob-dylan-richard-prince/

Might be true. Might not be.

If this is all just a prank, though, it's a pretty good one.
#1 JM01 on 2017-04-30 15:27 (Reply)

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