These days, at ArteBa, Charly García showed his skills as a painter. An inevitable trigger for a society – rock and painting – that comes from afar. And that he has popular music names among his ranks but not always known for his skill with the brush. Note: Luis Alberto Spinetta, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, David Bowieand the signatures continue … Come and see.

With your full name, Carlos Alberto Garcia Morenothe POPA art gallery and the Make Art Not War foundation showed his pictorial work as part of ArteBA 2022.

Charly García’s interest in painting has always been known and he himself made some of his drawings known. It’s morethe cover of his latest album to date –Randomsince 2017- was made by the musician himself.

He also painted an acrylic which was the back cover of the album Combed plays Garciain which Roberto Pettinato performed pieces by Charly, and also in some with the participation of García.

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Perhaps, Luis Alberto Spinetta’s passion for drawing has been captured forever that sad clown illustrating the cover of Almendra’s iconic first long comedy (so it was said!), that of Girl …, Prayer for a sleeping child, among other classics, released on January 15, 1970.

Lid approval wasn’t easy at all. Spinetta brought a first draft to the offices of the RCA record company and the executives didn’t like it. They preferred a group photo (they used to say so and there are two of them!). There was a tug of war and Spinetta imposed the idea of ​​him.

But days later, they said the drawing was lost to the printer. The skinny boy, enraged, redid the drawing and in the end he stayed there, on that emblematic cover of national rock.

He also liked to draw cars, as we can see below.

John Lennon

John Lennon’s musical career has left its mark not only in the history of music, but also on a social level. He has transcended generations and styles beyond time, but his was not his only artistic streak.

As a child, encouraged by his uncle George (husband of Aunt Mimì) he expressed his love for drawing.

In fact, around the same time that Elvis Presley fell ill with rock n ‘roll, between 1957 and 1960 Lennon studied at Liverpool College of Art. For those teenage days, however, he failed to graduate in literature because he had been expelled a year earlier for his behavior.

In a note, already in the heat of Beatlemania, he declared that during travels and concerts he “drew compulsively” to get away from stage stress.

Encouraged by a legion of publishers, his writings and drawings soon found their way into the book.

Like this The daily scream they became the first project written and designed entirely by John Lennon: a booklet with the illustrations and annotations that he made during the years of the artistic high school.

the 23 of In March 1964 his first feature film was released: In his own writinga compendium of 31 short stories, poems and illustrations characterized by that black humor so Lennon. The following year it was published A Spaniard at worka book of whimsical stories and images similar in style to his previous book.

Word of mouth skywriting was published posthumously in 1986. This book is considered Lennon’s travel diary where he recounts his experiences and reflects on life and his life, for many the authentic autobiography of the former Beatles leader.

With that name, Sotheby’s in New York would not get lost and auctioned off his works. Among his most sought after drawings of him, he stood out With only the head above the groundcorresponds to The Wumberlog (or the Magic Dog), which reached $ 75,000, despite being valued at between $ 18,000 and $ 22,000.

The one with the highest price was the only one of the color drawings, the watercolor Oh, dear sheep, from Bernice’s sheep, sold for $ 81,250.

David Bowie

David Bowie was fond of painting. Except that in his case, in addition to developing a vast production over the years, he has put in particular passion as a collector. In his various houses he hung works by Tintoretto, John Bellany, Damien Hirst and Rubens, among others.

His style was influenced by artists such as David Bomberg, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Francis Picabia. “A palette dominated by strong and dark colors, with a great predominance of violent forms”, said his Italian gallery owner Fabrizio Rossi.

Bowie himself defined it this way: “When some creative obstacle arose in the music I was working on, I would often go back to drawing or painting it. Somehow, the act of trying to recreate the structure of music in painting or drawing has produced a turning point. “

Bob Dylan

Bob fans know it well: Bob Dylan, while waiting in hotels and dressing rooms around the world for the time to go on stage, loves to paint.

Sometimes he goes further, like when in 2008, while in Buenos Aires to play at the Vélez, he disguises himself (as a Bob Dylan in disguise) and asks his safety to take him to La Boca. And yes, that man in a hooded jacket who was drawing on a large sketch pad, he was the real one Bob Dylan capturing between pencils and watercolors his La Boca Bridge.

The Nobel Prize for Literature has already exhibited in several galleries and museums around the world. Fairs of small towns, empty streets of distant horizons, the Brooklyn Bridge with an old ice cream factory or old cars from the 1950s are the usual motifs of his canvases.

Dylan says he tried to show reality as it is, “without idealizing it. These paintings are lifelike – archaic, rather static, but shaky in nature – contradict the modern world. that’s what I do “he wrote in one of his catalogs.

“His works evoke a sense of transience, a journey from the metropolis to the natural world by road, bridge, rail and air. Together they present a panoramic view of the American landscape from Dylan’s unique perspective. “

So defined Bill Flanagan, curator of the first retrospective dedicated to the artist’s work titled retrospectexhibited at the Shanghai Museum of Modern Art and added nearly 100,000 visitors in three months. “His works of art invite you to take part in a journey through the cities, throughout the day and in the calendar. Dylan remains tirelessly creative, scouring the marina with his eyes wide open. “

A tip for collectors: Bob and his dealers are selling their vision of the Manhattan suspension bridge for almost 4,000 euros the print, from a “limited” edition of 295 reproductions.

Ron Wood

Ronnie Wood was praised for his artistic talent long before joining the Rolling Stones when he appeared on the show. Club sketch from the BBC as a child. The Rolling Stones guitarist attended Ealing Art College, and has exhibited his paintings and drawings, many of them celebrity portraits, around the world. He is also co-owner of a gallery in London, Scream.

On one of his repeated visits to Argentina, Clarione consulted him for his “way as a painter”:

-How do you live the moment of painting? Solitary? With music …?

-Sometimes I paint with music. Painting inspires my music. I follow artists such as Caravaggio, Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec; I like impressionism, abstract art, old school and very, very Rembrandt.

Joni Mitchell

As for her passion for painting, the great Canadian singer-songwriter goes further: she has said so many times she identifies as a painter rather than a musicianbut he describes his creative process as something indivisible.

“Every time I make a recording, it is followed by a period of painting. I keep passing on the creative juices to each other, when the music or writing runs out, I paint. “

CJL