Revisiting my newly-purchased painting, I noticed the screw heads around the perimeter of the thick frame and that the placard beneath it, rather than the usual "acrylic on canvas," read "gemstones, tektite, quartz, cash, oatwheat, wood, etc".
If that sounds too schematic, then take in the surrounding fragments; a meteorite that crashed into rural England that year, studies of clouds, a commemorative handkerchief from 1819 depicting the yeomanry massacring the demonstrators at Peterloo, an Ed Ruscha canvas reading "MAD SCIENTIST".
The first painting, an ominous black-and-white canvas reading "Will you die with me?" was claimed by very a brave fan named Kevin Doan on Feb. 23.
The first painting, an ominous black-and-white canvas reading "Will you die with me?" was claimed by very a brave fan named Kevin Doan on Feb. 23. .
Admirable but ineffectual efforts by a writer trying to broaden his canvas, they read like creative-writing-school exercises in character and point of view: "During the Jurassic" is told from the perspective of a suburban iguanodon; "Under the Microscope" from that of a piece of pond scum.
On its side was draped a canvas that read "Welcome to Hotel California".
A message penned on the back of the canvas from Bronson reads: "To Reg, from your friend, Charlie Bronson".
Her tastes, as the final set of galleries reveals, had turned to the literary Surrealism of André Masson and the cartoonish figuration of Francis Picabia (whose large canvas "The Acrobats" reads as a Picasso pastiche).
"In a sense, the paper reads as canvas and the pastel as paint, so that the works appear to be paintings, and in some ways they are, but at the same time they aren't".
