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10 Amazing Artists Who Never Won a Grammy

Some of the biggest and most influential acts and artists of all time have never won a... more

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Fantastic Comic Art / Amazing Fantasy

Ron Lim has a FINE collection on display,....with a massive web of SPIDER-MAN... more

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Janeen's Art Memoirs (webisode 3)

In this webisode, Janeen visits 3 locations and explains what inspired her to paint... more

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The Gibbets -'Playground' free album - progressive lava rock

The Gibbets claim to make lava rock, whatever that means. The members are: Antoine... more

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Artists Wanted | In Focus | Art Takes Miami: Scope Art Show 2010

Artists Wanted presents the official video of our featured artists at SCOPE Miami 2010... more

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silly cheesecake cartoons

. . . .by loopydave ! ~( silly )~ but GOOD. jolly GOOD, . . .LINK - - -... more

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Marko Djurdjević -EPIC MARVEL 'marksman'

New Star is Born in Marvel - Posted on 15 January 2011 Marko Djurdjević -... more

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torontowatchit.ca - Community Marketing Mediams Strategy - Gordon King Welke and Leona Sackaney Sweet

torontowatchit.ca is the newest Community Marketing Mediams Strategy by Gordon and... more

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how FUN,...is Cliff Chiang ?

DAMN FUN ! GOOD FUN ! GREAT FUN ! about - Cliff Chiang’s artwork has been... more

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James Smith does Harvey Pekar

Cartoonist and illustrator James Smith is the penultimate contributor to... more

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Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius

“Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius” presents a selection of pictures... more

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CAPTAIN AMERICA

Captain America Inspired Artwork -Well,...by eager young recruits and seasoned... more

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Zina Saunders does Harvey Pekar

Noted artist and writer Zina Saunders is the latest contributor to S&R's... more

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Krayzie Bone Takes on Role As Mentor & Guide.

Grammy Award Winning Artist Krayzie Bone of the rap/hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony... more

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‘Captain Beefheart’ Dies at 69

Don Van Vliet, the eccentric 1960s rocker who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days of protean musical creativity and who found greater financial success later in life as a painter, died Friday. He was 69.

His death was announced by the Michael Werner Gallery, which frequently exhibited his paintings. The cause of death was complications of multiple sclerosis.

Mr. Van Vliet’s 1969 double album, “Trout Mask Replica,” produced by Frank Zappa, is widely perceived not just as the high point of his recording career but also as one of the seminal achievements in rock’s early decades. It had particular resonance with the punk and new wave generation to come a decade later, influencing bands like Devo, the Residents, Pere Ubu and the Fall.

An often challenging work that didn’t sound quite like anything that had come before (or anything that has come along since), “Trout Mask Replica” features solo vocal songs that sound like field hollers and sea shanties, with lyrics created spontaneously by Mr. Van Vliet; intricately ordered pieces with two guitars playing pre-composed lines unrooted to a chordal center; and surrealist antiwar and pro-ecology songs.

The record gives the impression of a Dalíesque circus where anything can happen; Mr. Van Vliet’s group spent months practicing the music, and the result was an energy that makes it sounds spontaneous.

Mr. Van Vliet’s vocal style was as extraordinary as his compositions: a deep, rough-riding moan turned up into swooped falsettos at the end of lines; it was pinched and bellowing and sounded as if it caused pain. Robert Palmer of The New York Times called him “the most natural white blues singer.”

For all his influence, Mr. Van Vliet, a self-taught musician, never had much commercial success, and in the 1970s he suffered a series of major business setbacks. He enjoyed a triumphant comeback in the early 1980s, but quit music in 1982 to focus on his painting.

He began to show at the Michael Werner Gallery in Cologne, the Mary Boone Gallery in New York and the Leslie Waddington Gallery in London. In the exhibition catalog to a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the gallery director, John Lane, wrote of Mr. Van Vliet’s work, “His paintings — most frequently indeterminate landscapes populated by forms of abstracted animals — are intended to effect psychological, spiritual, and magical force.”

Having moved away from his early influence of Franz Kline, Mr. Van Vliet was now painting more narrative works with bright color; they were art brut but commanding, with strong images — some of them a continuation of his songwriting concerns, especially those involving animals.

In recent years, as rumors circulated about his health problems, Mr. Van Vliet was rarely seen in public. “I don’t like getting out when I could be painting,” he told John Rogers of The Associated Press in 1991. “And when I’m painting, I don’t want anybody else around.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/arts/music/18beefheart.html?_r=1&hpDon Van Vliet, the eccentric 1960s rocker who was known as Captain Beefheart during... more

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Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!!

SO MUCH "Wilde" stuff, . . . . http://heyoscarwilde.com/

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Drowning Beautiful

Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath... more

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TO EACH - Toronto Entertainment & Artists Cultures Home and CMMS - Community Marketing Mediam Startegyy

Some of the names of two or three divisions are shortened here and there BUT this... more

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Artists' Tribute to Harvey Pekar: 2nd Work by Karl Christian

Writer, artist and modern drunkard Karl Christian Krumpholz posts his second work in... more

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TOAST Presents "Visual Vaudeville"

TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour (TOAST), which is best known for their annual public... more

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