Did Ronnie just show us the next Stones album cover?



New artwork from Ronnie Wood would make a helluva cover for a new Rolling Stones album. (Hint. Hint). They'd catch holy hell from the rage harpies for trivializing Picasso's "Guernica" but after a fifty-six year career rooted in misogyny, cultural appropriation and trashing the political correctness of any given era, I'm guessing they could pull it off.



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NO NO NO ...

this is wrong, this silly interpretation of Guernica.

sorry Ronnie, I know your heart is in the right place, but this is in extremely bad taste.

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duke richardson
NO NO NO ...

this is wrong, this silly interpretation of Guernica.

sorry Ronnie, I know your heart is in the right place, but this is in extremely bad taste.

plus it's just awfully executed -- the most charitable thing you can say about ronnie imho is he's a pretty good painter for a guitarist.

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New artwork from Ronnie Wood would make a helluva cover for a new Rolling Stones album. (Hint. Hint). They'd catch holy hell from the rage harpies for trivializing Picasso's "Guernica" but after a fifty-six year career rooted in misogyny, cultural appropriation and trashing the political correctness of any given era, I'm guessing they could pull it off.

I would disagree on your assessment of the Stones' career. how do you figure 'rooted in misogyny'..? its rooted in great songwriting, enthusiasm for the music they love, and respect for others and each other.

But this thing Ronnie has done, based on one of Picasso's most famous paintings, is just plain silly. I dont know what Ronnie was thinking.

just my opinion, I think its crass commercialism at its worst, given the tragedy of events depicted in Guernica.

Egad. Nope.

Piece is being promoted in an email from The Rolling Stones:

Ronnie Wood Releases New Art

Essential for Rolling Stones fans; Ronnie Wood has unveiled ‘The destruction of a civilised riff’. This hugely impressive print measuring 60 x 98cm represents a new dynamic interpretation of the word’s greatest rock and roll band.

[shop.ronniewood.com]

oh dear that sucks

i like several of Ronnie's pieces showing the band at work, that he's done over the years..

why appropriate the Guernica, of all paintings, for your weird and silly big-ass print? its not out of a love for Picasso, but something else.. contrived marketing i think..

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rbk


New artwork from Ronnie Wood would make a helluva cover for a new Rolling Stones album. (Hint. Hint). They'd catch holy hell from the rage harpies for trivializing Picasso's "Guernica" but after a fifty-six year career rooted in misogyny, cultural appropriation and trashing the political correctness of any given era, I'm guessing they could pull it off.

as I already said in another thread: sorry folks and sorry Ronnie, but Guernica with Rolling Stones is really obscene and disgusting!

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duke richardson
i like several of Ronnie's pieces showing the band at work, that he's done over the years..

why appropriate the Guernica, of all paintings, for your weird and silly big-ass print? its not out of a love for Picasso, but something else.. contrived marketing i think..

I rather like it.. that it's somewhat controversial here, makes me like it more
Ronnie has done several Picasso inspired pieces, and believe it likely is a love of Picasso.. "Picasso Stones" collection was released earlier this year.

[www.ronniewood.com]
“Picasso did his own take on a lot of artists but I bet he never thought anyone would ever do a take on him. I hope and think he'd be flattered, but also a bit shocked and pleasantly surprised at my take on his work.”

Besides, it would be a bit difficult to airbrush out the bass player -- who's not "really' in the band.

Tea@3

Isn't this a 'clickbait thread title'?

Crap painting by the way

Besides being a crap knockoff, the opposite of art, it chooses to parody a brutal event, the destruction of a Spanish town by nazi-backed fascists, an act of mass murder rivaling what went on in the camps. Perhaps Ronnie's next work will feature the Stones faces and tongue logo superimposed on photos of the victims taken at the liberation of Dachau, Maybe a series of lithos with the Stones at great tragedies. Not funny. obviously he is removed from all perspective.

As usual for Wood, this latest piece highlights his horrifically poor taste both aesthetically and philosophically. To base a portrait of the Rolling Stones on the Guernica is both incredibly crass and also artistically clueless. But one would expect nothing else from Wood. Awful.

Ugly

I really can't believe the absolute idiocy behind this piece. Even for Wood it is extremely stupid.



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I think it's kind of cool. To each his own.

I think Ronnie still needs to find his angle, or niche as a painter. IMO he will probably never find something satisfying because it goes to the root of his strength and weakness. He has always been about style, and execution. But original creation is not his department.You see it in early interviews, in his guitar parts and playing, in his solo albums. Even his clothes.
He is the greatest lieutenant, the best second banana in rock'n roll. That is why he is so popular, and invaluable.
The original premise though, should always be left to the leaders.
He obviously has a fair sense of color, distribution. Fairly adept at using a paint brush, or a pencil. But even at that to be honest, he is not all that good. He has a problem with content. Even when drawing the obvious subjects: the Stones; he often used well known photos as a base. Then we saw the head scratching ideas of Arab horses on an acoustic solo album. I will take Charlie's scribbles of beds any day over his stuff.
Maybe abstracts...

edit - sorry, I forgot to apply all that to the topic: terrible idea, in such bad taste, that I hope that Ron doesn't really know what the original concept of the Picasso piece was.



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masseywinos
I think it's kind of cool. To each his own.

I agree.
"Ronnie's amazing re-imagining of one of the most important and powerful works ever commited to canvas"
Clearly he gets the significance.

Looks like the first run of only 50 prints are sold out..
Very few of his pieces incorporate the trademarked Tongue, I like the way he utilized it in this one. His "Picasso Stones" series appears to have sold out as well. Not a big fan of those, but this one is very well done I think.

The response on this board, the few clueless aside, is gratifying.

In the village of Guernica, populated by mostly women and children because the men were away fighting Franco's fascist's troops, at around 4:30 p.m. on market day, Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the German Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours.

The Germans, invited by Franco, used the opportunity to test and perfect the
methods used in their 1939-40 tour of Europe, later dubbed the "Blitzkrgeig Tour."

The London Times correspondent estimated about 5,000 civilians were killed in the Nazi's target practice.

The painting is I think the one time Picasso addressed anything topical, so horrific was the event. It is considered the modern equivalent of the Mona Lisa. Unlike Wood's excretions, it actually has meaning.

yet there are people, apparently thankfully few, who think that anything a stone does is kind of cool.

What the hell did he think ?
Did he think at all...?

Good points and well-stated by Rokyfan, Palace, Worried, Duke, etc ...
The high caliber of discussion and artistic understanding on this site keeps me reading.

I don't think Ronnie does this out of commercial considerations like making a quick buck from crossbreeding the Stones and Picasso. He certainly does love Picasso and didn't think much beyond "might be a cool idea", but still ...

Maybe we'l also get to see blue period Stones (perhaps as the cover of Blue & Lonesome pt. II) or a cubist version or bullfighting Stones, etc.

OK, maybe we should adopt a positive view: If the choice were between Ronnie doing the Picasso and Ronnie starting to drink again, he'd better do the Picasso ...

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duke richardson
NO NO NO ...

this is wrong, this silly interpretation of Guernica.

sorry Ronnie, I know your heart is in the right place, but this is in extremely bad taste.

Yeah, Ronnie stealing ideas again, and the fact that it is Picasso's Guernica - a masterpiece depicting the atrocities of war - is in extreme bad taste.

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I have always had a deep doubt about Ronnie’s talent as a painter, and once expressed that on the “What’s your stones confession” thread.

This work has only convinced me of my doubt.

Meh.

Ronnie isn't trivializing the subject matter of the original art. He's paying homage. Art is supposed to invoke a range of emotions and is always subjective.
I'd say he hit the mark on this piece.
Course, tough to really determine as the gallery of art critics here are only slightly more incensed than when Ronnie's subject is a farm animal

Many artists have put their spin on or expressed their take on this and other famous pieces over the years. Ronnie does so respectfully and with the expectation of shocking some.."I hope and think he'd be flattered, but also a bit shocked and pleasantly surprised at my take on his work.”. Shocking that this art invokes emotion and is somewhat shocking, I guess...


Not to trigger the already triggered, but even Lego had the audacity to replicate the piece..

"The master builder-in-residence, Veronica Watson, of the Legoland Discovery Center at the Ridge Hill megamall in Westchester, New York, has crafted a Lego version of Picasso’s “Guernica”

[hyperallergic.com]




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Rokyfan
The response on this board, the few clueless aside, is gratifying.

In the village of Guernica, populated by mostly women and children because the men were away fighting Franco's fascist's troops, at around 4:30 p.m. on market day, Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the German Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours.

The Germans, invited by Franco, used the opportunity to test and perfect the
methods used in their 1939-40 tour of Europe, later dubbed the "Blitzkrgeig Tour."

The London Times correspondent estimated about 5,000 civilians were killed in the Nazi's target practice.

The painting is I think the one time Picasso addressed anything topical, so horrific was the event. It is considered the modern equivalent of the Mona Lisa. Unlike Wood's excretions, it actually has meaning.

yet there are people, apparently thankfully few, who think that anything a stone does is kind of cool.

Well said Rokyfan.

Ronnie must be going senile to think this was a clever idea.
He should go back to his crayon setlists, or copying photos in his paint by numbers style.

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Rokyfan
The response on this board, the few clueless aside, is gratifying.

In the village of Guernica, populated by mostly women and children because the men were away fighting Franco's fascist's troops, at around 4:30 p.m. on market day, Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the German Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours.

The Germans, invited by Franco, used the opportunity to test and perfect the
methods used in their 1939-40 tour of Europe, later dubbed the "Blitzkrgeig Tour."

The London Times correspondent estimated about 5,000 civilians were killed in the Nazi's target practice.

The painting is I think the one time Picasso addressed anything topical, so horrific was the event. It is considered the modern equivalent of the Mona Lisa. Unlike Wood's excretions, it actually has meaning.

yet there are people, apparently thankfully few, who think that anything a stone does is kind of cool.

The question I’m asking myself is ,have the drugs and drink destroyed his brain or was he always a fckng retard and I just didn’t notice it.
The childish set lists in multiple colors and drawing the other band members hands were stupid and annoying but this...I now realize why Keith used to smack the shit out of him occasionally, it was well deserved.

The Lego version replicates the painting in another medium, retaining images of the horrors of war. Ronnie's "homage" retains the basic structure but substitutes members of a rock band for war victims, which seems a rather more questionable approach.