Denmark thinks Dylan is a sucky painter.

[BurtWorm]

Can't say I disagree...



http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/art/danish_press_loathes_bob_dylans_paintings_172935.asp

Danish Press Loathes Bob Dylan's Paintings
By Steve Delahoyde on Sep 08, 2010 07:02 AM



While it was all excitement and anticipation when we told you that musician Bob Dylan would have his own exhibition at the National Gallery of Denmark, featuring never-before-seen paintings created just for the show, the story has changed considerably now that it's open to the public. Denmark's art critics have ripped the show apart, calling both Dylan "a Sunday painter" (meaning amateur/hobbyist) and the museum itself shameless for being so star-struck. Of the two, the museum really gets the most flack. Here's a bit from the AFP:

The financial newspaper Borsen turned its criticism to the the Statens Museum for Kunst's management, which it said "put financial interest ahead of artistic judgment", knowing that the Dylan name "would bring in a big public."

While the critics are right, that the museum is sure to draw in larger than usual crowds simply due to Dylan's celebrity, at the end of the day, all of this is always entirely subjective.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. I seen plenty worse. Reminds me of Philip Guston some.

:*

[hippywife]

2. I don't think the critics are right at all!

I love this one:

http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/bob-dylan/about-the-exhibition/favela-villa-broncos/

It's excellent!

:hi:

[mitchum]

3. I've never seen any rock star painting worth a damn...

Ronnie Wood, Bowie, Mellencamp, Lennon...all really sucked at painting

[BurtWorm]

4. And so many went to art school too.

Don van Vliet some say could paint. I'm not a big fan, though.

[gmoney]

5. Guess that's why they became singers?

Do starving painters get wildly f***ed by dozens of groupies a night?

[BurtWorm]

6. Some do.

Even starving ones.

[mitchum]

8. Most of the Brit rock stars who went to art school were there because they...

didn't have the grades to go to university.
Keith Richards went to art school. That should tell you something.

[kid shelleen]

7. Feh!

Give me a Dylan, Lennon or a Vliet any day over a Rembrandt or a Vermeer. It's ironic, the Dylan painting in your post reminds me of Van Gogh. While I'm on the subject, Wild Strawberries was a pretentious mess.