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Don Van Vliet – Bio

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:10:42 +0000

Don Van Vliet is a legendary figure in both music and the visual arts. Growing up in Glendale, California, Don Van Vliet gained notoriety as a child prodigy who sculpted life-like animal forms out of clay. He would continue to draw, paint and sculpt throughout his life, but in the early 1960s music became his main passion. Performing under the stage name Captain Beefheart, together with his Magic Band Don Van Vliet produced a number of highly unconventional blues- and rock-inspired albums. After two decades in the spotlight as an avant-garde rock composer and performer, Don Van Vliet turned his back on the music industry and since the early 1980s has devoted his entire efforts to painting. Since 1985 Don Van Vliet’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. He passed away in December 2010.

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Don Van Vliet is featured in Edition: Out Of This World

Don Van Vliet – Images

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:59:32 +0000

Untitled Poem (from the back sleeve of “Lick My Decals Off Baby”)

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:41 +0000

UNTITLED POEM (FROM THE BACK SLEEVE OF “LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY”)

Noon bouncin’ ball of warm beside child
Deflating ah vegelife puzzle
Ah braking ball of wings, legs, leaves, lives, behives
Movies from each comb
Each pocket ‘n drones bouncin’ cones
Prisms that melt flesh ‘n bones
Dust ‘n dark dusklite
None numb numerals
Noon ball warm beside the child
Earholes, eye holes, airholes
Dance, deflate, inflate meat rainbows
Flesh bonnets her hair woven
Toes kick dust away
Drops
Blue, yellow, red, green clocks
Her heart pumps, stops, starts, plays, drops
Eyes roll
Rocks back ‘n forth
She played through the sun stuck out her tongue
Stood on each of three decals
She licked each one

Tulip

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:34 +0000

TULIP

It could be
a tremendous black upside-down tulip
it could be
a black fishes’ tail
it could be a day, artistically crimped
and buoyant
in its taped together way

Safe Sex Drill

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:20 +0000

SAFE SEX DRILL

The child
held the old T.P. roll
carefully
thoughtful
not to misshape
the hole

A Christmas Card From Don Van Vliet

tania — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:13 +0000

A CHRISTMAS CARD FROM DON VAN VLIET

The Ocean
Gave me Oysters
The People Watching it
Gave Me Ulcers

When the Ocean
is Wounded
it Takes the
Whole World to Heal