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<span style="font-size: large;">Junkyard Dog</span><br />
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6" x 5.5"<br />
oil on wood panel<br />
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This is a painting of the wrestler Junkyard Dog, from a rather humorous publicity photo. I am not nor ever was a fan of professional wrestling but after studying this reference photo and reading about Sylvester Ritter, the man that is the Junkyard Dog, I feel like I'm finally starting to "get it". Wrestling and wrestling culture has an over the top sense of camp and drama to it that I never understood, I would complain that it wasn't "real", and everything was scripted, but I now realize that it was real enough for what they were trying to accomplish and that it was this living theater that allowed everyday people with no real acting skills to invent characters and different personas for themselves, and try it out in front of a group of rabid and willing audience members. As a creative type that maybe has finally learned to lighten up, I can see the humor in this finally. I mean, I always knew it was funny, but I think that the seriousness of the fans unnerved me. It was the FANS of wrestling that created this confusion within me. As usual, I'm blaming others for my own stupidity.<br />
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Slyvester Ritter played some college football and also earned a degree in Political Science. I believe this character he created was subversive in nature. A powerful black man in chains, has definite political implications. I think that at the same time as he was making a serious historical statement on the role of black men in our society, he was having a lot of fun, and carved out an unusual way to a make some decent money and impact on our culture. Something I can definitely relate to and aspire towards.<br />
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From Wikipedia:<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">In the early 1980s Ritter moved to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Wrestling_Federation_(Bill_Watts)#Mid-South_Wrestling" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts)">Mid-South Wrestling</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, where </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#B" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="List of professional wrestling terms">booker</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watts" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Bill Watts">"Cowboy" Bill Watts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> gave him the name and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#G" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="List of professional wrestling terms">gimmick</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> Junkyard Dog, as he would wear a long chain attached to a dog collar, and white boots. He originally came to the ring pushing a cart filled with </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Foreign object (professional wrestling)">junk</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> called the "junk wagon" and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Job (professional wrestling)">lost</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> most of his early matches before his character caught on and became the top </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Face (professional wrestling)">face</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in the company. While on top he </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Feud (professional wrestling)">feuded</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> with some of the top </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Heel (professional wrestling)">heels</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> in the company, including a now infamous </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#A" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="List of professional wrestling terms">angle</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> with the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Freebirds" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Fabulous Freebirds">Fabulous Freebirds</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> where they blinded him with hair cream. At the peak of the feud JYD's wife gave birth to their first child, which was made part of the storyline. It was explained that JYD could not see his new daughter, something that increased the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(professional_wrestling)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Heat (professional wrestling)">heat</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> on the Freebirds to the point where they needed police escorts in and out of arenas. The feud ended with the still-blinded JYD and Freebird leader </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hayes_(wrestler)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Hayes (wrestler)">Michael "P.S." Hayes</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> wrestling in a dog collar match.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Other notable feuds involved Ernie Ladd, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_DiBiase" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Ted DiBiase">Ted DiBiase</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_(wrestler)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Kamala (wrestler)">Kamala</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_Bundy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="King Kong Bundy">King Kong Bundy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, and "The Natural" Butch Reed. The feud with DiBiase was particularly notable as DiBiase, once JYD's friend and tag-team partner, turned heel and subsequently won a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_match_types#Loser_Leaves_Town_match" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Professional wrestling match types">loser-leaves-town match</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> against JYD with the help of the loaded glove, which was a DiBiase calling card, forcing JYD to leave town for an extended period of time. A masked man physically resembling JYD, known as </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Stagger Lee</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, subsequently appeared in the region and began to defeat the competition, one by one, including DiBiase. Though DiBiase and the other heels strongly suspected that Stagger Lee was in fact JYD, they were unable to unmask him to prove their suspicions. Stagger Lee disappeared once the loser-leave-town clause in the JYD-DiBiase match had expired, and JYD returned and reclaimed the North American Heavyweight Championship.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ritter died on June 2, 1998, in a single-car accident on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_20" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Interstate 20">Interstate 20</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest,_Mississippi" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Forest, Mississippi">Forest, Mississippi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, as he was returning home from his daughter LaToya's high school graduation in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadesboro,_North_Carolina" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wadesboro, North Carolina">Wadesboro, North Carolina</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PWHF_1-4" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard_Dog#cite_note-PWHF-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The apparent cause was falling asleep at the wheel. Ritter's body was laid in an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmarked_grave" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Unmarked grave">unmarked grave</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> at Westview Memorial Park in Wadesboro, North Carolina, however a marker was placed at his grave by November 2012.</span><br />
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dog-like antics, including <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bite">biting</a> the air, barking at his opponent, and crawling on all fours while repeatedly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_attacks#Headbutt" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Professional wrestling attacks">headbutting</a> his opponent</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Multiple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_attacks#Headbutt" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Professional wrestling attacks">headbutts</a> to a cornered or standing opponent</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_throws#Shoulderbreaker" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Professional wrestling throws">Shoulderbreaker</a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_professional_wrestling" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Music in professional wrestling">Entrance themes</a></b></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad,_Bad_Leroy_Brown" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bad, Bad Leroy Brown">Bad, Bad Leroy Brown</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Croce" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jim Croce">Jim Croce</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_One_Bites_the_Dust" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Another One Bites the Dust">Another One Bites the Dust</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queen (band)">Queen</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Dog" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Atomic Dog">Atomic Dog</a>" by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(funk_musician)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George Clinton (funk musician)">George Clinton</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrestling_Album#Track_listing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Wrestling Album">Grab Them Cakes</a>" by Junkyard Dog and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Sue_Robinson" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Vicki Sue Robinson">Vicki Sue Robinson</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagger_Lee" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Stagger Lee">Stagger Lee</a>" by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Price" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Lloyd Price">Lloyd Price</a></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11519848209353824532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-877205346709292535.post-83884264856922330082015-10-26T08:35:00.002-07:002015-10-26T09:46:51.201-07:00The Leaper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; text-align: center;">This painting was made using a "found photograph" as a reference. It is from a photo series commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency to document American life in the 1970s as part of the Documerica project. Photographers traveled to Texas to document the water and air pollution crisis, but also captured life in small towns and local ranches. It is painted on a stack of MDO style plywood.</span> </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; text-align: center;">This painting was made using a "found photograph" as a reference. It is from a early 1960s fashion photo from artist Hurst P. Hurst. It is painted on MDO style plywood, which just means it has a paper face on it. I designed the piece with the wave patterns in the leg area just to have some fun.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: center;">This painting was made using a "found photograph" as a reference. It is of two young ladies taking a smoke break after some roller skating and generally being fabulous. I designed the wood form that it is painted on to enhance the feeling of maybe looking through a fashion magazine and spying these two ladies. They are twins but they are not. The each occupy their own "page" or panel but are very similar otherwise. </span></div>
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This is the first painting in a series where I am again trying to make small work on a consistent basis. I am just taking in images I see that appeal to me this photo flew by in my newsfeed on Facebook one day. It turns out it is an image of a friend's parents. I boosted the color and stretched the distance between the two sweet lovely parents of my friend. </div>
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An empty lot next door to Lo And Behold Records in Hamtramck. I guess the guy walking is a local character recognized in this painting by his paunch. The figure is cut out and suspended in front of the painting as I tend to do. This image would really benefit from being on a curved panel.</div>
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This painting of a friend I made on a Chinese food take out container. I consider these as "ready made" forms to paint on. You can unfold them and then refold them into any shape you want. Here I just made a simple bowl shape which distorts the face in a crazy way. I've been concentrating on portraiture as of late, just to try and get a handle on it. There are endless possibilities for shapes when using these containers. I made a series using this format of still images from the original movie of King Kong. Every still in that movie is beautiful like a gorgeous painting with a violent but innocent ape as the subject. I also did a few skateboarder ones based on the photos of Glen E. Friedman of skateboarding legends Tony Alva and others in the 1970's skating empty pools in California. Here is a link, <a href="http://www.andrewkrieger.net/chinese-food.html">http://www.andrewkrieger.net/chinese-food.html</a>.</div>
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Todays painting is of a guy on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit. These paintings are a lot cooler in person, the effect of the face on the corner of the painting really brings these people to life.</div>
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Todays painting is of my friend Jake Culkowski, I've done a few paintings of Jake already, but on a larger scale. He is a local musician and plays in various bands around town. Hanging around Jake is like hanging around a time machine, because he seems to have stepped right out of the 1970's. It reminds me of that movie with Brendan Fraser (Encino Man) when he was a recently thawed caveman hanging around some high school kids teaching each other life lessons. Actually I never saw that movie and I'm totally guessing at the plot. </div>
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Todays painting is from my found photo series, it's of some friends together on the beach. I had drawn the image for this quite a while ago and set it aside, but after a recent bout with the winter blues (I'm tired of being cold) it started telling me to finish it, so I listened and I do feel better. Summer is coming! The title is an insider reference to a Detroit band from the early to mid 1980's. Thanks for the title guys and cheers to you! here is their song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coKwd4Dgf8" target="_blank">Swimming</a>.</div>
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On a day like today where it feels like spring and the sun is shining, although it is still winter, I should feel warm and have a brighter outlook. I don't. So, I thought I'd cheer myself up with a summer painting. I play softball in the summer with a bunch of great characters and people. The first thing that happens besides opening a beer is to pick the teams. We usually play two games, and in this painting the sun is getting low in the sky as the second game is about to be sorted out. I painted this on one of my right angle panels. I enjoy painting on these sculptural forms.</div>
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A friend and I went out one evening with the intention of shooting some photographs and we came across this house fire in an abandoned house on the east side. It was well under control when we arrived, after following the smoke from a few miles away. This kind of thing is all to common around here and its been gone over ad-nauseam in the press and elsewhere about our cities problems, but when confronted with something like this. I defy any artist to turn and walk away, it is such an amazing, destructive visual spectacle that can only leave you spell bound.</div>
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I love seeing fresh snow on the road right after sunrise. I perhaps did push the colors here slightly (sarcasm), but when you are traveling and the sun is starting to rise, it usually makes for a memorable day and I wanted to make sure I didn't forget. Although now I only remember this as a yellow sunrise.</div>
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This is on Chicago's south side. I lived in a house in Ferndale, Michigan that was very close to the tracks, and the sound of the train horn and the rumbling on the tracks was very soothing, especially at night.</div>
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