Portraits of real and fictional people, full of pastel on paper, will exhibit at the London Portrait Gallery in September. 72-year-old musician began to show his paintings and graphic works only six years ago, although drawing from childhood

The National Portrait Gallery in London will host an exhibition of graphic works of the legendary American musician Bob Dylan. A series of 12 portraits of real and fictional people in pastels will be on display for the first time in the exhibition "Bob Dylan: The value of the person", which will open in September.

The singer, who is now 72 years old, painted since childhood, but began to exhibit only in the last few years. Paintings and graphic art critic John Elderfild Dylan (John Elderfield) considers "products of the same outstanding, inventive mind," as his musical works. Director of the National Portrait Gallery Sandy Nairn (Sandy Nairne) shared appreciation of Dylan figure in the history of music, and now art.

With picturesque Dylan's work, however, has happened in the past is not the most pleasant story . Blades of "Asia Series", on display at the Gagosian Gallery, critics called plagiarism with old photos , although organizers Exhibition argued that these are original works based on personal impressions of Dylan's travels through Asia.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources: bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru