Bob Dylan will win the Nobel for Literature

[David Morris]

Dylan's too busy painting bad copies of famous photographs and passing
them off as “a visual journal” of Mr. Dylan’s travels “in Japan,
China, Vietnam and Korea,” with “firsthand depictions of people,
street scenes, architecture and landscape.”

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/questions-raised-about-dylan-show-at-gagosian/?scp=2&sq=bob%20dylan%20painting&st=cse

Mr. Gray, an author who has written extensively about Mr. Dylan’s work
and its artistic influences, writes on his blog:

“The most striking thing is that Dylan has not merely used a
photograph to inspire a painting: he has taken the photographer’s shot
composition and copied it exactly. He hasn’t painted the group from
any kind of different angle, or changed what he puts along the top
edge, or either side edge, or the bottom edge of the picture. He’s
replicated everything as closely as possible. That may be a (very
self-enriching) game he’s playing with his followers, but it’s not a
very imaginative approach to painting. It may not be plagiarism but
it’s surely copying rather a lot.”