Seraphiel´s blog: The Art of Hard Rock exhibition - 17/2/12

This exhibition displayed the portraits, paintings, instruments and some other creations of famous Rock and Pop icons of our time. I´ve seen Michael Jackson´s self portrait, which was basically a simple drawing of himself from the times of Moonwalk era, not extremely exquisite drawing to be honest but still nice to see something that maestro has done. The only portrait that had some artistic value would be probably Ron Wood´s picture, which looked rather professional and good quality. The rest of the drawings were mostly doodles - the likes of self portrait of Jim Morrison, over which I laughed a lot, or Billy Idol´s signature drawing...that looked as if painted by 5 year old school kid, ha ha. There were also some masks done by Julian Lennon (very intriguing one I must say), or Bruce Dickinson, Roger Daltrey or Mike Olfield. I quite liked the drawing by Pete Townshend, or by John Entwistle from Who, the painting of Elton John as a Superman in his Tommy musical bright coloured boots flying above the Earth. There were also some paintings of stars by Ringo Starr (however, they all looked same to me), and I was quite upset there weren´t any pictures by Freddie, Elton or Jimi Hendrix - as Freddie was the best painter of them all! Anyway, quite good exhibition, but there could be lot more work from other artists....