Ah well, so he's at it again - copying or referencing, depending how you see it. Wiebke Dittmer has written to report that Dylan's 'Opium' painting from the Asia Series can't but have been based on a photograph taken in 1910. She writes, very interestingly:
"Bob obviously painted this new work from an old photograph. See link below... To me, it's a fascinating find. I've suspected before that Bob might paint from photographs sometimes, though the main idea / image always was that he makes drawings of things that interest him and paints from those. That's certainly true for the Drawn Blank Series and part of the Brazil Series, but some of the Brazil Series looks very much like good photo opportunities (the Favela pictures come to mind), and one as yet unpublished painting from the Asia Series called "LeBelle Cascade" has been described in the press as "a riff on Manet's 'Le Déjeuner sur L'Herbe' but is, in fact, a scenographic tourist photo opportunity in a Tokyo amusement arcade." We'll have to see about the rest of this new series, but it looks like there will be much to discover, and isn't it just like Bob to find such a vintage photo to paint from? He's doing what he does with old songs in a different medium."
Thanks to Amy Crehore, the photo and the painting were linked, and are juxtaposed, here.
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