What does Bob Dylan’s painting look like? Is it good? – Before

Bob Dylan may be famous for songs like “Blowin ‘in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone” – but the Nobel laureate was never content to write, sing and play the guitar. . Besides selling whiskey, making films and even once playing in a Victoria’s Secret advertisement, the constantly evolving artist has also produced paintings, collages and sculptures. More than 180 of these pieces are now on display in a new exhibit at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami, complete with handwritten song lyrics and archival pieces.

The exhibition – titled “Retrospectrum” – comprises 40 unpublished pieces that the 80-year-old artist created in 2020 and 2021. This series, “Deep Focus”, presents cinematic paintings of natural landscapes and scenes of big cities, between other subjects.

Three acrylic paintings from 2020 included in the exhibition highlight urban outdoor scenes. One shows a subway train across the New York City skyline, another shows a black woman sitting in a chair with her arms crossed on a sidewalk on a street called Emmet Street, and the other shows a man in cloth in cold weather gear stopping to smoke on a hilly street lined with parked cars. It should be noted, however, that Dylan has been accused to copy his paintings directly from photographs. His train painting is said to bear a striking similarity to a particular stock photo.

Music fans who visit the exhibit may be pleased to find numerous references to Dylan’s songs.

In his 2018 book “Mondo Scripto”, for example, he included 12 years of pencil drawings alongside handwritten copies of some of his most iconic song lyrics. The Frost Art exhibit includes some of these pairs, including lyrics from his 1965 era song “Like a Rolling Stone,” accompanied by a sketch of a man dressed as a 19th century horseman.

Also shown are the cue cards that Dylan used in the 1965 music video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, and the video plays in a loop.

The exhibition also includes sculptures.

“I was born and raised in the land of iron ore,” Dylan reportedly said on a wall in the museum, referring to his upbringing in Minnesota, which supplies most of the iron ore mined in the United States. The exhibition shows the importance of this metal to Dylan through a series of his iron sculptures, which include gears, chains, blades and, in one case, even eyeballs.

The exhibit will be on view in Florida until April 17. Timed tickets costs $ 16, with discounts and free tickets available to members of certain groups.