Self-Portrait: Why the blue nose?

[Absolutely Cynthia Marie]

Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-
Portrait?

Absolutely Cynthia Marie
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[Dino]

> Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-
> Portrait?

The painting in an homage to Picasso: the parti-colored face is meant to
recall the colors and textures of the acrobat paintings, the multiple
perspectives is meant to evoke cubism, and the blue nose points to the
"blue period". And the fact that the title promises one thing and the
album delivers something totally different simply points to how much
Picasso is, in Dylan's opinion, commodified and deified beyond all
reason.

dino

[NewSource2]

>Subject: Self-Portrait: Why the blue nose?
>From: Absolutely Cynthia Marie bobby...@goplay.com

>Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-
>Portrait?

Didn't someone just point out a few posts back that Bob has a strong puritan
streak?

[Chris Dalgarno]

He was cold?

Cheers, Sluggy

[Anthony Frazer]

Damn! You beat me to it

[robertandrews]

Absolutely Cynthia Marie <bobby...@goplay.com> wrote in message:

>Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-Portrait?

 

Because he ran out of your Under the Red Sky rouge. 

[Peco]

"I mean, there was no title for that album. I knew somebody who had some
paints and a square canvas, and I did the cover up in about five minutes.
And I said, "Well, I'm gonna call this album Self Portrait." - Bob Dylan

I got this from http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/reviews/self_portrait.html
I don't think it has much meaning, like the album. Go read that page and
you'll see what I mean

Peco

[Creme121]

For Dino,

And what is your credibility to this information you have posted?
Opinions usually start with, My Opinion Is... and not so factual sounding
as you have written.
In my opinion, the Blue Period in Picasso's career had nothing to do with
the color blue and all to do with the mood of his art.
I'd also like to say that the title, SELF-PORTRAIT, is quite explanatory of
Dylan in the sence that the songs on that album are completly not how I
perceive Bob Dylan to pick a list of songs to describe himself yet it is very
much so because my surprise at the content of the album is exactly a Dylan
trait. Got all that? So the album and the title are to me truly one in the
same, not misleading, not different.
And how do you know Dylan's opinion of Picasso?

[Dino]

> And what is your credibility to this information you have posted?

I assumed everyone was perceptive enough to know I was making fun of the
people who find deep meanings in Bob's every wrong note/bad sketch/
trite rhyme. For all we know, the nose is blue because that was the
only color Bob had around the day he did that part.

Who the fuck cares, anyway. A nose is a nose is a nose.

Dino

[robertandrews]

Dino <dinom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:38FA87...@hotmail.com...

>Who the fuck cares, anyway.  A nose is a nose is a nose.

Not according to the esteemed painter, Pablo PicMyAsso.  He spent years refining the nasal cavities of his women until they resembled the cavernous nostrils of an Andaluvian Toro.  PicMyAsso finally succeeded in pictorially representing one of the best examples of performed literature, the poetry of John Dunne.

 

Ask not for whom the nose blows

It blows for thee

[John Howells]

Dino <dinom...@hotmail.com> writes:

<Who the fuck cares, anyway. A nose is a nose is a nose.

And a nose by any other name would still smell.

--

John Howells
how...@bigfoot.com
http://www.punkhart.com

[nates]

> robertandrews wrote:
>
> Dino <dinom...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:38FA87...@hotmail.com...

> >Who the fuck cares, anyway. A nose is a nose is a nose.
>

[nates]

> robertandrews wrote:

> Ask not for whom the nose blows
> It blows for thee

...and, from the old Zap Comic days,

God Nose....snot reel.....

& i feel for ya, Dino.....
ah, what can you do?

- nate

[Maureen & Stephen Scobie]

In article <38F8DF...@hotmail.com>, Dino <dinom...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> > Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-
> > Portrait?
>
> The painting in an homage to Picasso: the parti-colored face is meant to
> recall the colors and textures of the acrobat paintings, the multiple
> perspectives is meant to evoke cubism, and the blue nose points to the
> "blue period".

It appears, from a subsequent posting, that Dino did not mean this
suggestion entirely seriously. However, I think the Picasso reference
is not at all inappropriate, though I would place it slightly later
than the Blue Period -- more like early 1907, studies for "Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon." There are also strong echoes of Fauve painting
in this portrait, early Matisse or Derain (who were often attacked for,
precisely, non-realist colours on noses, chins, ears, etc.) Whether or
not Dylan in 1970 might have been conscious of these references is
another question altogether (though I would never underestimate the
range of his knowledge). But the painting's apparent naivety does
suggest to me a fairly sophisticated relation to art history.

Stephen

[KOKO]

In article <1592d5e3...@usw-ex0103-086.remarq.com>,

Absolutely Cynthia Marie <bobby...@goplay.com> wrote:
> Why did Bob paint himself with a blue nose on the cover of Self-
> Portrait?

For the Billy Madison fans:

Bob : "Well, I drew the nose blue because I've never seen a blue nose
before."
Ms. Lippy : "Well Bob, It's an excellent blue nose. You've just passed
the 1st grade"
Bob: "That's quack-tastic"

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Let me smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood
Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves
Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace.
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground."-Bob Dylan

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