John Frusciante Paintings- Dying I Don't Mind

a slideshow of John's paintings along with the song Dying I Don't Mind.

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[musicowned]

and you should stick to sucking cock

[pandavinczi]

he was paiting after taking drugs, and was selling paintings for a drugs, Frusciante's rebirth shows beautiful history of fight against addiction, with happy end...

[mussman717word]

@martinmand1r

How, then, do you explain the career of Jackson Pollock? Looking at these paintings of John's, I see varying shades of talent. For instance, I wouldn't pay a dime for the one at :20, but I find the ones at :10 and :46 very inspiring, despite who or what created them. My guess, based on the tone of your comment, is that you are a painter? I agree with your general sentiment, but the work of an abstract expressionist is entirely different from more traditional art.

[J0000z]

they need to make a book about him really...hes amazing

[FilmPriest]

@martinmand1r I completely disagree with the statement you said about how paintings are bought if people understand them. Similarly, "You don't have to understand what 'I am the Walrus' means -- it's a beautiful string of words and that's that." - JF

[MissLidi82]

ah até que ele pinta bem :) gostei de algumas.

[martinmand1r]

Most likely if you are laying around doing drugs and painting it is going to make sense. When you sober up you say "It all made sense and I can see that now" Good paintings are the ones that get bought because they are good to the consumer. They make sense. If I tried to sell those as my work I most likely would not have too many buyers, but with Frusciante it makes sense. Right? People thrive on artists who are drug addicts who are famous.Is it just because they are. Is it possible without void

[InsomniumX]

@InsomniumX (continued) Just think of this: say that there is a very creative man, with a great numbers of ideas for different stories. You ask him to write a story in russian, but he only knows english. He has two options: he can learn russian until a point where he is fluent with it, or he can just write said story in english.

In Frusciante´s case, guitar is his english, since his "russian" (painting skill) is barely good enough to make simple sentences.

[InsomniumX]

@InsomniumX (continued) Let´s say that Frusciante had the exact same personality and so that he has now, but had never touched a guitar in his life. He obviously would NOT be able to play in the beautiful way he does if given a guitar out of the blue (yet); he´d have to first develop technique not for the sake of technique but to familiarize himself with the instrument and how to express himself through it.

[InsomniumX]

Sorry to all the people who says otherwise, but these paintings are mediocre at best.

Sure, they reflect that the author is an emotional person, but they also reflect that the author doesn´t know how to paint. And yes, art is subjective, but art is also a LANGUAGE and therefore no matter how creative you are you can´t properly express yourself if you are not FLUENT with it, with the medium you are using, so you can use it naturally to express your ideas.

[fmartinez1897]

@retrohippie That last line is almost memorable as a quote. Very well said sir

[retrohippie]

John's paintings are not much different than, say, his album Niandra Lades. To the common "stay-in-line" man, it looks like a kid half-assed them or just scribbled and dabbed paint on them, but to people who understand, it's work made under the life we'll never completely understand.

There is no flat-line standard to what is "good" art/music/life/ect.  People that believe such a thing contradict themselves.