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"Hooke + Line Press is excited to announce its first title, Titans of Modern Music: Paintings 2021-2022 by Dan Melchior. TOMM is a selection of 36 portraits from his series of paintings of seminal music figures spanning multiple genres." "As an unrepentant renaissance man, Dan Melchior has long trucked in blood unfit for pudding. He is a master of endurance over abidance whether it be as a singer of songs, a writer of poems or taster of pies, there are no half measures. Add to that list a painter of peoples, and Titans of Modern Music is a testament to his keen eye & deft stroke. And as a recording artist known for a voluminous body of work, portraiture is the perfect medium for his restive creativity. The subjects are infinite. Please note these are no mere, Sharpie's-in-the-park renderings. Gently run your hand across the rawness of the paper and you can feel the exertion of acrylic and oils. The style is playful yet sincere. The attention to detail, uncanny. Gazing through this select volume, I am reminded of the work of Horace Pippin & Philip Guston at once. Dan says he would like to paint like Lucian Freud. That's funny. So would I." --Tom Lax, Philadelphia, PA, 2023 40 pp; 15.25x22.75cm; color printing.
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