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He is a singer, musician, Nobel Prize winner – and also a visual artist:
Bob Dylan has been painting since the 1960s.
But only in recent years has he created so much that retrospectives in museums are also dedicated to him.
His works are exhibited here in Stockholm in 2020.
Photo: Patrik Österberg/TT / picture alliance / Patrik Österberg
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Action star
Sylvester Stallone
has also been a painter for several decades.
Here he shows himself at Art Basel Miami in 2009 with one of his mostly colorful and large-scale works.
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His pictures are as enigmatic as his films:
David Lynch
regularly exhibits in museums and galleries.
Studying art instead of film as a young man continues a lifelong interest.
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Together with the musician
Marilyn Manson
, Lynch was also responsible for the exhibition »Genealogies of Pain« in Vienna in 2010.
In connection with current allegations of abuse against Manson, titles like the one in the picture shown sound oppressive: "Elizabeth Short as Snow White, You're sure you will be comfortable?" )
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Simply »Otto.
The exhibition" was the name of the show that was on view in Hamburg's Museum of Arts and Crafts in 2018 and showed pictures of the North German comedian.
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Oscar winner Sir
Anthony Hopkins
, here in front of instead of on a screen.
In 2009 he presented his »Masques« series of paintings at the Italian »Tuscan Sun Festival«.
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The exhibition in the Rostocker Kunsthalle, in which the paintings by actor
Armin Mueller-Stahl
were on view (here with Kunsthalle director Jörg-Uwe Neumann), ended last weekend.
Around 80 exhibits were shown.
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David Bowie
was certainly one of the best-known musicians who also had painterly talent
.
The current documentary »Moonage Daydream« (in cinemas since September 15) shows how great his passion for the arts was, even beyond music.
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The painting that »Rolling Stones« guitarist
Ronnie Wood
is presenting here is very fresh: it was only shown to the public in London at the beginning of February 2022.
Wood has always captured his band's unique career in pictures.
They can be bought online as prints.
Photo: Kirsty O'Connor / picture alliance / empics
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Will the art of
Brad Pitt
(right) and
Nick Cave
(left) be able to measure up to that of their music and acting colleagues?
You will have to travel to Tampere, Finland, where her joint exhibition with British artist Thomas Houseago has just opened.
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