A brief history of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan was born in 1941, under the name Robert Allen Zimmerman. He first came into real fame in the early 1960s, when his songs seemed to sum up everything this period was about- social change, protest, the civil rights movement, the development of alternative culture, and the redefinition of what it meant to live in a free and democratic society. ‘The times they are a-changin” is still an anthem for activists today.

Following a serious motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan took a short break from recording before going on to work closely with or write for artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, Manfred Mann, Julie Driscoll, The Byrds, and Jimi Hendrix. By the end of the decade he was widely acknowledged as a master songwriter as well as one of the most important performing artists of the generation.

He continued to record right up until 2009 and still tours, but along the way Bob Dylan art has begun to diversify into visual formats as as well as audio. A first set of drawings was published in book form in 1994 and a major exhibition followed some years later. Bob Dylan paintings and sketches have been exhibited from Germany to New York, arousing no small amount of controversy along the way.

While Bob Dylan paintings and drawings are a relatively recent development compared to the length of his incredible musical career, they are nonetheless very interesting both as a reflection of his life and thoughts, and in themselves. Like all Bob Dylan art, they are the work of a man with an undoubted genius for expressing complex concepts and deep emotions, and for capturing a snapshot of a time and place. Any Dylan fan can purchase a print from a site like www.artisangalleries.com- in fact, no Dylan collection should be considered complete without at least one.

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