The fabled musician and poet Bob Dylan simply can’t put his paint brush down. The people singer’s artwork escapades have been properly documented, together with exhibits at London’s Halcyon Gallery in 2008 and 2016. Dylan is again on the artwork beat as soon as extra on the identical gallery with a present referred to as Level Clean (till 6 July) that includes 97 work created between 2021 and 2022. (The works had been initially sketches; the singer painted over them in a masterly artwork transfer.)
Works on present do precisely what they are saying on the tin, depicting topics comparable to Zurich (Unusual Climate), Piano Participant and Beans for Breakfast. “They’re a masterful expression of a dynamic creativeness,” the gallery stresses. A few of Dylan’s drawings have been reworked as blue, crimson and impartial monochromatic research, drawing on Picasso’s early Blue Interval (1901-04), provides the gallery. Pablo and Bob—peas in a pod.