06 - In The Heaven of Legends, Their Signatures Are Roaming Freely Around - Limited Edition of 80 Print

This painting, with its strange title "In The Heaven of Legends, Their Signatures Are Roaming Freely Around" is based upon four persons. These are now legends, and what's left is their signatures. Their signatures and to whom they belong: THE BRICK George Herriman (1880 - 1944), the creator of the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913-1944) which first appeared in the New York Evening Journal. Herriman has been an important inspiration for me, among other great cartoonists. "Krazy Kat's mixture of offbeat surrealism, innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favourite of comics aficionados and art critics for more than 80 years" (Wikipedia - Krazy Kat) Stefan Kanfer wrote in City Journal Magazine in 2013 about Herriman "Other Herriman aficionados included Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and H. L. Mencken, who clipped the Kat’s daily adventures and glued them to the wallpaper of his living room. While Woodrow Wilson occupied the White House, he never missed an episode". Jack Kerouac, Gertrude Stein, Joan Miro and Umberto Eco with many more held Krazy Kat close to their hearts. The legendary cartoonist Hugo Pratt also let his main character Corto Maltese read Krazy Kat in Hong Kong Gazette. THE WHITE HAT The American writer and journalist Tom Wolfe (1930 - 2018) was a leading figure for the New Journalism, a news style of writing where the writer is part of the story, and other literary techniques. For me, it's not his legendary book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" where he walked around in his white suit and hat among Ken Kesey, the Merry Pranksters and other freaks. For me, his most important work is The Painted Word where he unveils how star curators and the art industry controls and manipulates the art scene. Tom Wolfe shows how some curators, especially the 'Star Curators' who make sure the investor's investment plan is implemented by controlling the art scene with words. Or as Wolfe defines it; "without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting". CANNON AND FIREWORKS Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005) is as well connected with the New Journalism, and from there developed his own style which he named Gonzo journalism. Here there were no claims of objectivity, and he the writer could as well be the head character of the story. After he ended his life in 2005, his friend fulfilled his dream that his ashes were blown out of a cannon with red, white and blue fireworks behind. His friend Johnny Depp spent $3m dollars for this to happen. THE ZEPPELINER Phil May This painting is #6 in the serial: "8 Paintings, the Loop and the LP". My background comes from large canvases and acrylic paint, but for more than ten years, my work has been painting and drawing digitally on a piece of glass - today, Wacom Mobile Studio along with Corel Painter software. Technical data: Colour code: Adobe RGB (1998) Size in pixels: 10'000x7'143 The original digital file, riff Byer gets along with the numbered print, the original numbered file in a tiff with a certificate of authenticity. Original Created:2020 This painting, with its strange title "In The Heaven of Legends, Their Signatures Are Roaming Freely Around" is based upon four persons. See if you can find the signatures and to whom they belong? These are now legends, and what's left is their signatures: Tom Wolfe GeorgeJoseph Herriman Hunter S. Thompson Phil May This painting is #6 in the serial: "8 Paintings, the Loop and the LP". My background comes from large canvases and acrylic paint, but for more than ten years, my work has been painting and drawing digitally on a piece of glass - today, Wacom Mobile Studio along with Corel Painter software. Technical data: Colour code: Adobe RGB (1998) Size in pixels: 10'000x7'143 The original digital file, riff Byer gets along with the numbered print, the original numbered file in a tiff with a certificate of authenticity. Original Created:2020 This painting, with its strange title "In The Heaven of Legends, Their Signatures Are Roaming Freely Around" is based upon four persons. See if you can find the signatures and to whom they belong? These are now legends, and what's left is their signatures: Tom Wolfe GeorgeJoseph Herriman Hunter S. Thompson Phil May This painting is #6 in the serial: "8 Paintings, the Loop and the LP". My background comes from large canvases and acrylic paint, but for more than ten years, my work has been painting and drawing digitally on a piece of glass - today, Wacom Mobile Studio along with Corel Painter software. Technical data: Colour code: Adobe RGB (1998) Size in pixels: 10'000x7'143 The original digital file, riff Byer gets along with the numbered print, the original numbered file in a tiff with a certificate of authenticity. Original Created:2020 This painting, with its strange title "In The Heaven of Legends, Their Signatures Are Roaming Freely Around" is based upon four persons. See if you can find the signatures and to whom they belong? These are now legends, and what's left is their signatures: Tom Wolfe GeorgeJoseph Herriman Hunter S. Thompson Phil May This painting is #6 in the serial: "8 Paintings, the Loop and the LP". My background comes from large canvases and acrylic paint, but for more than ten years, my work has been painting and drawing digitally on a piece of glass - today, Wacom Mobile Studio along with Corel Painter software. Technical data: Colour code: Adobe RGB (1998) Size in pixels: 10'000x7'143 The original digital file, riff Byer gets along with the numbered print, the original numbered file in a tiff with a certificate of authenticity. Original Created:2020

Printmaking:Digital on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:80

Size:55.1 W x 39.4 H x 0.8 D in

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