These are just two of the hundred or so paintings by Bob Dylan going up next fall at Denmark’s National Gallery in Copenhagen. As Culture Monster reports:
Publicists for the show were able to provide images of two works that will appear at the museum. Both images come from Dylan’s “The Drawn Blank” series.
In the first image (above), titled “Train Tracks” (2009), Dylan revisits his obsession with railway tracks that he has depicted in numerous paintings in the past. This latest variation features a blood-red sky dominating an anonymous rural landscape. The earth seems to reflect the hues of the sky as the railway stretches into infinity.
In the second image (below), titled “Man on a Bridge” (2009), Dylan once again depicts a favorite visual subject—a man in a hat standing solitary in what appears to be a European city. The musician has created many variations on this striking composition. In a statement, the museum’s chief curator, Kasper Monrad, said that several of Dylan’s images “reveal an affinity for some of the modernist masters, not least Henri Matisse’s works from the 1920s.”
Won’t be making it to Denmark next year? Well, below you can watch a Drawn Blank slideshow. It’s set to Dylan’s exceedingly lovely, Suze (the Cough Song).