David Bowie: Self-Portraits And Other Paintings
Berlin landscape with JO – 1978 (Portrait of Iggy Pop (James Osterberg))
David Bowie (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) was restlessly creative, experimenting with music and fashion, working as a mime artist and a cabaret entertainer, moving into music, acting, glam-rock, banking, video games and painting. Could the energy that Bowie gave to his intriguing melodies, elaborate performances and powerful songwriting strike gold in art? His pop videos, album covers and stage persons were eye catching. Could he do the static stuff that sits in frames as well? Would Bowie’s paintings possess the same power and freshness as that time when 1970s kids saw him illuminate the decade’s uniform brown as Ziggy zoomed into the BBC’s Top of the Pops?
We can take a look. Thanks to Greg Bot of Very Private Gallery, who has shared these paintings with us:
Self portrait
David Bowie – self portrait
Self portrait
Self portrait
Make-up study – Self portrait
Study – Ashes to Ashes
Drawing on Gitane Packet
Study – One Such Tribe enters one such Building – Handwritten musings referring to Diamond Dogs.
Study – Hunger City – The Future
Study
Study
DHeads – II
DHead LV – Portrait of Mike Garson
DHead – portrait of Mike Garson
Child in Berlin – 1977
DHead – XXVIII..XXV -1995-96
DryHeads – Capetown -1995
Evol For The Missing – 1996
I Am A World Champion – 1977
Portrait of JO (Iggy Pop) 1976
Present Future Accepted – 1995
Squeeze 2000-1996
Hearts Filthy Lesson -1995
The Rape of Bigarschol -1996
Turkish Father and Son – 1978
Via: Very Private Gallery
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