The Assassination of Dimebag Painting for Sale
Some days I don't want to open up my personal email for this website.
It is just ludicrous at what you people send me. I appreciate it, but
damn Frank W. you have sent the worst email ever.
Frank's email was simple:
yo craig....thought you would enjoy letting your readers enjoy the chance to bid on this auction. Metal Hammer
So I go to the site and find this picture:
This art piece is entitled "The assassination of Dimebag" by Tom Sanford. I have no idea if Tom is the brother of Lamont Sanford from Sanford and Son.
I went to Tom's website to hear what the artist had to say about this seemingly classless painting.
"I think of it as a history painting that attempts to depict one of the more bizarrely tragic moments of the past decade.
"Dimebag's death was certainly a great loss to the music world and a truly poignant cultural event — a real rock hero slain on stage by a seemingly psychotic fan. A horrifying symptom of the kind of cultural malaise that permeated Bush II-era America. In a way, this painting is my answer to Théodore Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa'.
"One of the things that interested me about making a painting about this event was that as there was almost no visual documentation of the event, just some very unclear security camera footage from the Alrosa Villa. Thus, there was little to get in the way of my imagination of what this might have actually looked like and I was able to base my painting on the oral reports from witnesses of the four murders as well as Nathan Gale's eventual death."
I have seen Géricault's Medusa in the Louvre. It is a spectacular piece of French Romanticism depicting a horrifically tragic event (crash of the French frigate Méduse). The Assassination of Dimebag is a cheap ploy to garner attention by an artist.
You can buy the piece if you want, but I will not be giving you auction link. You will have to find it elsewhere. I am not linking to filth. Well, I do link to filth, but not filth under the guise of art. Ok some filth under the guise of art, but I am not linking to this auction.
Frank's email was simple:
yo craig....thought you would enjoy letting your readers enjoy the chance to bid on this auction. Metal Hammer
So I go to the site and find this picture:
This art piece is entitled "The assassination of Dimebag" by Tom Sanford. I have no idea if Tom is the brother of Lamont Sanford from Sanford and Son.
I went to Tom's website to hear what the artist had to say about this seemingly classless painting.
"I think of it as a history painting that attempts to depict one of the more bizarrely tragic moments of the past decade.
"Dimebag's death was certainly a great loss to the music world and a truly poignant cultural event — a real rock hero slain on stage by a seemingly psychotic fan. A horrifying symptom of the kind of cultural malaise that permeated Bush II-era America. In a way, this painting is my answer to Théodore Géricault's 'The Raft of the Medusa'.
"One of the things that interested me about making a painting about this event was that as there was almost no visual documentation of the event, just some very unclear security camera footage from the Alrosa Villa. Thus, there was little to get in the way of my imagination of what this might have actually looked like and I was able to base my painting on the oral reports from witnesses of the four murders as well as Nathan Gale's eventual death."
I have seen Géricault's Medusa in the Louvre. It is a spectacular piece of French Romanticism depicting a horrifically tragic event (crash of the French frigate Méduse). The Assassination of Dimebag is a cheap ploy to garner attention by an artist.
You can buy the piece if you want, but I will not be giving you auction link. You will have to find it elsewhere. I am not linking to filth. Well, I do link to filth, but not filth under the guise of art. Ok some filth under the guise of art, but I am not linking to this auction.
Seeing as how you mentioned the Louvre couldn’t help but bring it up myself and send you this comment. The Louvre is about art of the finest what this picture in your post shows could be seen in the future as art but if that is how they will remember us, this is a sad day.
Oh I totally agree. Imitation of great art isn't great art. The background behind the piece is interesting, but the execution really is nothing special. I wouldn't have that in my attic for a million dollars.
Man, that is one awful painting. I would have nightly nightmares with that thing in my house. Interesting how the artist manages to blame even this event on Bush. LOL
These type of awkward paintings are sell in very high prices. I am amazed.
i wonder how did the artist managed to make such a painting because when you look at it,you feel a bit awkward.making this was a tedious job for the painter i think