Captain Beefheart

"Captain Beefheart "
By Phil Lindsay

Portrait of legendary American musician Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet. Influenced by a famous song he wrote "Neon Meat Dream of a Octafish."
Don was also an Abstract Expressionist artist.
Oil painting on canvas professionally framed in black wood at cost of $90.
This painting is a tribute to one of rock and rolls most unique and eccentric musicians and song writer. Don van Vliet also performed with Frank Zappa .
During the 1970s LiNDSAY often painted with Captain Beefhearts music for inspiration .

Don Van Vliet was a child prodigy and began sculpting at a very young age . Later in life he became a successful New York Expressionist artist .

Neon Meat Dreams Of An Octafish
By Captain Beefheart

" Lucid tentacles, test and sleeved and joined
And jointed, jade pointed diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
And flesh petals in pots
Fact and feast, in tubes, tubs, bulbs
In jest, incest, in jest, in just, in feast, incest
And specks, and spreckled, spreckled
Speck-led speculation
Fedlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists, artificial deceased
In cysts, rancid buds burst
Dank drum and dung dust
Meate rose and hairs
Meaty meate rose and hairs
Meaty dream wet meat
Limp damp rows
Peeled and felt fields and belts
Impaled on in daemon
Mucus mules
Twat trot
Tra-la tra-la, tra-la tra-la tra-la
Whale bone fields 'n' belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled in letters alight
Cavorts girdled in letters alight
A dipped amidst
Squirmin' serum in semen
In syrup in semen, in serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish. "

From the album : Trout Mask Replica ,
By Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band . 1969

This story and influence will be printed , signed and attached to reverse of canvas.

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Philip LiNDSAY began Painting unique works of Pop & Abstract Art since 1970.
His achievements include being a finalist in art prizes such as The Bald Archies 2009 , Gallipoli Club 2010 and the prestigious Sir John Sulman in 2011 when his painting " Greetings from Byron Bay" was on exhibition in NSW Art Gallery and toured Australia. 2011.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/2011/

LiNDSAY'S paintings are in collections located all over Australia plus in Amsterdam, USA , UK & Greenland.

He was a political cartoonist for ARENA student newspaper while at Macquarie University during 1970s .

His major work for First Level Art in the NSW Higher School Certificate was a painting of a QLD tropical rain forest which received a special mention.

Philip was a teenager when he visited the legendary YELLOW HOUSE gallery in Potts Point in 1970/71 where he met artistic luminaries Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, Peter Kingston & Garry Shead .

LiNDSAY says that, " Abstract Expressionist art is the subconscious mind in a visual reality . The resulting painting is a psychological whirlpool which consumes the viewers attention evoking primordial emotions & thoughts . "

He is a regular entrant in the Archibald & other art prizes with portraits of Australians , including actresses Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Desert artists Kudditji Kngwarreye & Gloria Petyarre .

Brighten the walls of your home or give your office some panache by displaying a work of art by Philip LiNDSAY .