Bob Dylan, music legend and Nobel laureate, is also a prolific painter whose works depicting the landscapes and culture of the United States are now the focus of a major London exhibition. Dylan announced last week that he would travel to Stockholm to receive the prize, making the timing of this exhibition all the more apt. ‘The Beaten Path’The exhibition, entitled “The Beaten Path”, retraces the singer’s travels across the four corners of the United States, from its supercities to its immense expanses of desert. In San Francisco, Dylan chose to paint a seafood seller in Chinatown, rather than the city’s endless Victorian houses or its skyscrapers. One of the standout works of the exhibition shows an “endless highway” — a clear allegory of the artist’s life: always on the road, between two towns, two hotels.

Source: Hindustan Times November 06, 2016 09:54 UTC