{"id":206947,"date":"2025-06-23T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206947\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T05:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:53:15","slug":"knockin-on-halcyons-door-bob-dylans-latest-artworks-on-show-in-london-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/206947\/","title":{"rendered":"Knockin\u2019 on Halcyon\u2019s door: Bob Dylan&#8217;s latest artworks on show in London gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The fabled musician and poet Bob Dylan just cannot put his paint brush down. The folk singer\u2019s art escapades have been well documented, including shows at London\u2019s Halcyon Gallery in 2008 and 2016. Dylan is back on the art beat once more at the same gallery with a show called <a class=\"transition-colors duration-default shadow-externalLink hover:text-blue-900\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halcyongallery.com\/exhibitions\/93-bob-dylan-point-blank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Point Blank<\/a> (until 6 July) featuring 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022. (The works were originally sketches; the singer painted over them in a masterly art move.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Works on show do exactly what they say on the tin, depicting subjects such as Zurich (Strange Weather), Piano Player and Beans for Breakfast. \u201cThey are a masterful expression of a dynamic imagination,\u201d the gallery stresses. Some of Dylan\u2019s drawings have been reworked as blue, red and neutral monochromatic studies, drawing on Picasso\u2019s early Blue Period (1901-04), adds the gallery.\u00a0Pablo and Bob\u2014peas in a pod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fabled musician and poet Bob Dylan just cannot put his paint brush down. The folk singer\u2019s art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[7793,4021,4020,4022,7792,77,4845,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-206947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artists","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-diary","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-exhibitions","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114731129444950638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}