You may have heard of 'The Artist' from such stories of mine as 'The Artist and the Moped' or 'Ah the Nook' or my personal favourite 'Biarro Alto'. The Artist is a source of constant entertainment to the rest of us, in a kind of 'what's going to happen to him next kind of way'.
Everyone has one of these mates. The one who prefers to drink beer rather than go to work (don't we all) has managed to shirk responsibility for quite some time, and the one we all want to be when sitting in the office on those miserable days tapping away at some meaningless spreadsheet.
I stumbled across something recently when perusing Facebook (actually Lucy was perusing, I try to give it a wide berth nowadays). Something which was a pretty pleasant enlightenment ... The Artist is actually pretty good at art! Actually, no - he is really good.
He has always had a kind of an analytical but artistic mind of the kind that I can't quite really describe. He has always loved images of machinery and the way it looks and the emotions that it evokes (probably born out of a childhood obsession with Warhammer 40k). I think this picture is really brilliant:
And some more examples:
I reckon if he could raise his game from the current 1 picture per year, he might have something. What do you think?
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4 comments:
yes, very good indeed
I had no idea that he had such talent.
You're right, the Artist is very brilliant, but turn him into a commercial artist machine and you'll destroy his very soul.
My cousin is a professional guitarist, has been for 32 years, does not know what "responsible" means, has not the faintest idea of what "get a job" means, I used to employ him as a part time delivery driver - the job was full time but it was him that made it part-time and we didn't know what parts of the time he'd be turning up either.
Dan - Yeah, I had no idea.
Pa - who knew!
Jerrychicken - no chance of him going too commercial at the moment as he can't even be persuaded to get to work on time.
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