Category: Art

The woman on the Hot Rats cover

Smokey Bear art by Rudolph Wendelin

I saw this exhibit at the Reading (PA) Public Museum in 2019:

Smokey Bear and the Art of Rudy Wendelin

Here’s a gallery of pictures I took

Junior Wells by Frederick Brown

This painting of musician Junior Wells by Frederick Brown. It’s at the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is currently not on display. They own five of his works. I’ve seen Stagger Lee and it’s great.

Here’s Brown’s website. He made many paintings of musicians.

The Junior Wells painting was used for an exhibit poster (see my copy below). That’s where I saw the painting.

Direct capture

Frederick Brown, Junior Wells, 1989, oil on linen, 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William Cost Johnson, George W. Story, Robert J. Oliver and Mrs. Barwig-Wagner, 1990.31

I downloaded the picture from the Smithsonian.

Capturing the essence of the musicians and the music

Tweets on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Loney Hearts Club Band

See the tweet thread below

The album cover team

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1848544806483456136

Tweet on Pedro Bell

Artist Pedro Bell did the great covers for many Funkadelic and George Clinton albums. My favorite of his designs is the cover for Cosmic Slop.

My first AI image

A friend really likes bacon. I decided to use Microsoft Copilot to create an image of bacon with a candle on top in honor of her birthday. It generated four images. There are some strange things. In the first image, there is one blue candle. Where did the hot dogs come from? How about the hot dogs covered with strawberries?

Update: I tried a similar query and got different results:

Great cartoon about Munch’s The Scream

I first encountered the art of Edvard Munch on covers of Penguin editions of plays by Henrik Ibsen. The Scream (1893) is his most famous work.

Great sets of AI pictures of US presidents