Jimi Hendrix Super Nova By Mear One…
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October 05, 2009 by
DJC
Jimi Hendrix Super Nova by Mear One. Oil on canvas.
This oil painting of Jimi Hendrix by LA based artist Mear One. The oil on canvas painting took over 350 hours to complete.
More on Mear One, including a huge online gallery, via Mear One’s website.
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As far as I can tell, MEAR used a number of reference pictures of Jimi in creating this incredible homage to the world’s greatest guitar player of all time. But hey, I was lucky enough to see the massive, detailed original up close and personal at a recent show in downtown LA, which is almost life sized, amazingly detailed and literally bursting with seemingly magic, acid trip luminosity.
As for me; I’m ordering one to add to my MEARone collection and I like the fact that it’s a bit of a break from MEAR’s normal (at least normal to MEAR) political/occult/Eyes Wide Shut subject matter.
I suggest that anyone interested in grabbing a piece of a star that’s about to go supernova do the same as MEAR is about to blow through the roof with his phoenix like rebirth as the world comes around to the place where MEAR has been all along.
With the world waking up to the reality that almost everything in dominant culture is total and complete, soulless bullshit, from our so-called mainstream Robber Baron fronting news, politics, and economics, to so-called art that’s now, with the total saturation of programs like Photoshop and Painter, almost wholly derivative computer hack crap, MEARone is a REAL ARTIST (master of all media: cans, oils, pencils, pens, sculpture, etc.) who tackles subject matter often indecipherable to the uninitiated laymen (AKA brainwashed American tools) while his works simultaneously speak volumes to the few that actually have their eyes, minds and souls wide open to the horrific, and at the same time incredibly beautiful world around us.
So, as the “Powers That Be” continue to drive humanity toward global war, total economic collapse and techno pharaoh fascism, and as “art” has been wholly co opted by the Robber Baron classes and driven into the toilet by talentless hacks, MEAR’s incredibly talented, intelligently twisted, genius comes into focus and takes it’s place as one of the last, great, REAL artists taking a stand against the never ending tidal wave of cheese.
Sure, this piece isn’t going for the throat of the “Powers That Be” or demanding that I re-examine my world view or perceptions, but hey… I love MEAR’s work and I love Jimi’s work, so what the hell?
My advice: Buy as many and as much MEARone as you can get while you can still afford it.
- Peas!
I very much appreciate Kevin’s comment. He is absolutely right about MEAR. I was lucky enough to be around a few times as MEAR painted that canvas and saw it come to live over weeks and weeks of painstaking blending, drying, re-blending, painter’s alchemy. MEAR is the best, and most under-appreciated artist of our generation. I would never sell my MEAR canvases & I’m saving up to buy another. !!!!!!!!
*meant “come to life” not “come to live” —- although there are no mistakes. Maybe that means something- poets out there? come to live?