"Painting, Smoking, Eating" was, like most of these works, an implicit self-portrait, here of the artist in slothful paralysis, his Cyclopean lima bean head smoking in bed, staring vacantly at the ceiling, the sheets pulled up to his five o'clock shadow, a single light bulb, which casts no light, dangling like a hangman's noose, sandwiches moldering on a plate.
This potentially fake fad is nothing new; in 2011 a Reddit user outlined his experiences as a bean head, and a post on Erowid from 2007 summed up the stupidest way to consume caffeine.
A bean-head may lie face down on the ground, contemplate empty bottles and other tokens of bad habits, or direct a thousand-yard stare at nothing.
Then Guston erupted in the late 60's with a psychic geyser of squalid, seething, lumpish, nightmare cartoon images: hooded Klansmen painting pictures or riding around in jalopies, smoking stogies; disembodied one-eyed, stubbled lima-bean heads; mangy, goggle-eyed dogs licking trash; hairy spider legs wearing thick shoes, brandishing garbage can lids like shields.
The National Organization for Marriage singles out Starbucks, and those yuppie bean heads get all the attention?
Davenport points to the figure's floppy, bean-like head.
Aloft baby boy bean eat head hair face master moshing.
In Mr. Piscop's puzzle, we have five synonyms for HEAD: BEAN, DOME, COCONUT, NOODLE and BLOCK.
Brooks examines the cans on the shelf level with his head: beans, corn, soup.
Bath, who have not made the Premiership play-offs in five seasons, face Leicester, the side never missing from the semi-finals in a decade, full of beans with their head coach, Mike Ford, hailing a break-through into the Premiership's top four.
