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I have a lot of opinions, said John Mellencamp, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. He is the kind of artist that doesnt sweep the dark side of life under the rug, but who pulls the rug back to see what lies hidden underneath, and then tosses it aside to get to the business of cleaning it up. It is Mellencamps direct, frontal studies of humanity which people this exhibition. ∺rt is not merely something he uses to clarify his position or to give point to his vision of life, its the very substance of who he is and what he wants to say. John Mellencamps subject matter is of human existence painted as simply, starkly and fully as he himself experienced it, said Museum of Art - DeLand CEO George Bolge. Mellencamps unbridled creativity enables him to aesthetically express hard-hitting truthful messages with distinctive perception.
In the early ∨0s, he attended the Art Students League of New York and was influenced by, among others, German-Expressionists Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. The multi-talented singer-songwriter, actor and humanitarian was inspired to paint by his artist mother at a young age growing up in Seymour, Indiana. The exhibition features some 40 oil and mixed media paintings, which will remain on view at the Museum until December 28, 2014. The Paintings of John Mellencamp opened to the public at The Museum of Art - DeLand in downtown DeLand on Friday, October 10, 2014.
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