I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Friday, October 17, 2025

Don Van Vliet [Beefheart] the painter . . . .ART TRIPP III

Photo by Philippe Gras of Art onstage with Beefheart 
at the Bataclan Paris, April 1972.

Ed Marimba
 

 Art Tripp : 
"Don Van Vliet was primarily a painter and sculptor. What he did in music was no different from what was represented by the images in his wonderful paintings. You could say that whenever Don was with other people, in most circumstances, they were participants in a painting. That was predominantly Don's view of life: as an art statement, with reality being a nuisance. Symbolism took precedence over substance."

Art in 2013



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