The Artist's Car

This artist from the Past Future could never have imagined that one day a car would be called Picasso, could he? Hilarious, though whenever I see one I can't help but feel that Pablo's name has been diminished somewhat. Does that make me a sensitive Artist who is precious about Art, believing it above appropriation in the name of car manufacturing? No. In the picture, the struggling artist must make ends meet respraying cars with the aid of that fantastic gizmo throwing bolts of colour - amazing!

Meanwhile, from 1954, roughly the same time as the car respray Artist was created, we have another Art/Automobile combination. All Artists had beards then, of course, but I swear that's the same one, test driving the Artist's car. It's a rather clunky attempt at space-age design with a hint of Soviet constructivism about it, isn't it? No matter, it has a carpeted floor instead of a seat and for that it deserves to go into production. Note that it only holds one person...the Artist is destined to be a loner, even in his car...

So why not end this cArtist (ha-ha) special with a great Blue Note album cover by the label's very own artist, Reid Miles, from 1966.  And a fine track from the album because all Artist's dig Jazz. I mean, used to dig Jazz.