The Art Of Bob Dylan 

­ Great topic, Bob Dylan's art, oft neglected. Really interesting coverage, sparked a few comments below... Discussed in the EDLIS Café. EDLIS Café Press ­ EDLIS art index /\ Google is your friend ;-) URL links not allowed in RU-vid. \ ­ "she was an art student at NYU when they met" This is new to me, do you have a reference? (Suze Rotolo attended art classes at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts but NYU is not mentioned in the sources we have read.) "Dylan had gone to England of course and the famous tour in the 60s but he had never been to France" "Dylan didn't go to France I think until the 80s" "21 May - Early June 1964 Bob Dylan arrives in Paris where he stays with the French singer Hughes Aufray. He also meets Nico, to whom he later donates his song I'll Keep It With Mine, which she includes on her first album." May 24, 1966 Concert Paris, France L'Olympia "crucial night July 25th 1969" was in fact 1965.

Dylan played in Paris in the 60’s

Dylan didn't write' I want to join Little Richard' in his school yearbook. It actually says 'To join Little Richard' and was probably a slightly sarcastic comment by whoever compiled that page of the book. Also, Dylan 'had no interest in the West'?? He recorded an album named after one of the most notorious Western gunmen, and appeared in and wrote the music for a film about another, to say nothing of peppering his conversation with references to Jesse James. Then there's Brownsville Girl, and it's even been suggested that he took his name from Gunsmoke's Matt Dillon....

Dylan spent his 25th Birthday in Paris and played a show there that day.

I can trace Dylan's 'transitional space' back to One Too Many Mornings, where in the last verse he stands at the threshold of the house he is leaving and gazes back to the doorway where he and his lover lay, then back to the street and its signs. In the process he pinpoints the exact moment when a love affair ends. By the way, I think you missed that he was fascinated by Hollywood movies. Much of his artistic eye comes from that - as do many of his lyrics. Dylan was what you might call a 'kleptoartist', steal a bit here, steal a bit there, rearrange it and see who notices (not many!). He works on the boundary between art and fraud, asks 'What is real?' and loves to play the jester. Who is deceiving who? There's your liminal space again!

Dylan had a first love in Hibbing named Echo ? They spent much time together in high school. I think she was the girl from the north country.

My idol

Fascinating 🧐 I guess one would describe this as “high”pop art…🤗

Ah Yes. Now I remember. I knew that when he went to Paris he wasn't interested in the art..

Bowie's version of Pablo Picasso is best.

He has kept himself relevant by keeping his thoughts and emotions to himself and letting every “expert” interpret him as they want. Adds to the mystery. But the poignancy of listening to his 60’s and 70’s music is long gone.

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Yawn.

I think that's Eddie Cochran on the right

I just wanted to say that Bob Dylan has renamed the painting « One too many » into « Solitude ». It is interesting to note that he insisted to change the name of the painting ! It seems he cares !!!

This is a perfect example of a supposed expert over analyzing the content, exactly what Dylan himself claimed was a waste of time. He suggested such critics should get a life of their own.

Ashcan School? Not really urban street life. The appropriated image is from a film. The source is pulpy realism via Hollywood cinematography. For these pieces, Dylan must select the film imagery? The actual painters? - not known. There is an obvious Jeff Koons take on fine art craftsmanship going on with this output that no one addresses.

Small correction: He went to Paris once in 1964 (page 157 in Heylin’s Behind the Shades). But he was more interested in meeting Brigitte Bardot than Picasso (but he didn’t)

Hello...Bob is on tour in 2024!!

A South African does the metal work.Ya think bobs got time

Bob's plane as day.

Maybe in new york but he had afew before get your fact straight

Why did you go electric Bob? Why did you, quipped Bob? 27:00 "Standing In The Doorway" Bob told me to never drop names.

too much monotone and not enough of bob's music

Boy I wish I had a sox full of horse manure