IMG – 4473 – Anger, Confusion, Depression, and Fear… Burnt Umber Visions of Reefer Madness (2006)
51” by 51” Acrylic on Canvas with a Gloss Acrylic Bar Coat
$2600
Construction:
Stretchers built by the artist. Canvas is eight ounce cotton duck, stretched by the artist.
Six layers of artist-made gesso tinted to a pale ochre color, followed by:
Six layers of translucent glow-in-the-dark medium, followed by:
Six layers of pure pigment burnt umber, followed by:
Two layers of a 100% pure acrylic topcoat.
Description:
Four different views of Jack the “lunatic” as he is sentenced to life in prison at the end of the movie “Reefer Madness,” a 1932 cult-classic U.S. government propaganda film extolling the evils of the marijuana plant. At the end of the movie, the camera flashes four still shots of Jack as he is being sentenced and it reminded me of the album cover for the Beatles’ 1970 Let it Be.
So, I paused the DVD player at each of the stills and captured each image with my 35mm Canon.
I then arranged the four prints in a square and scanned them into a single image that I could project onto the canvas.
I then painted the image, SIX times… every line, into a posterized version of what I saw.
Then it got the pour coat. Twice.
The painting was damaged at a show in 2020 and has since been repaired, but the damage does still show a little.
After twenty minutes of bright light, this painting glows in the dark!
The glowing color is viridian, making this a four-color painting, however; one can only see two colors at a time: Burnt Umber over Antique White in the day, and Black over Veridian at night!
A non-glowing, un-coated reproduction of this work was commissioned by the Heavy-Metal Band “Heart Attack Jack” for their 2008 debut album cover “Smack You Blue”.
With the double layer of pure acrylic on top, this painting comes with a limited ten-thousand year warranty.
Anger, Confusion, Depression, and Fear…
Burnt Umber Visions of Reefer Madness
A Painting by Dan Fulwiler
Limited Ten-Thousand-Year Warranty
“Anger, Confusion, Depression & Fear… Burnt Umber Visions of Reefer Madness” a painting by Dan Fulwiler is hereby warranted against defects in materials or workmanship for a period of ten thousand years from the original date of manufacture on January 30th, 2006 and will be replaced, free of charge, should any defect in the materials or workmanship of said materials become visually detectable by a person of average or “normal” sight and barring all of the obvious flaws and defects built into the art by the artist as a means of showing the humanity of the touch that created the art including but not limited to hairs, dust and dirt specks trapped under the acrylic coating, normal “crackling” of the pigments on the canvas; rotting and ultimate failure of the wooden stretcher bars, corrosion and ultimate failure of the staples nails and screws used to construct the stretchers, mildew rot and decay of the canvas, peeling flaking chipping and loss of pigment sections weather in small or large pieces, and cracking, chipping or shattering of the acrylic layer.
By invoking the rights expressed within this warranty the warranty holder further agrees and affirms, that at no time has the painting ever been dropped, kicked, scratched, dented, pushed, shoved, bent, creased, moved, washed, stolen, purchased, sold, scraped, cut, smeared, wounded, kept at a temperature less than seventy two nor greater than seventy three degrees Fahrenheit, kept at a relative humidity of less than sixty two nor greater than sixty eight percent, allowed to be in atmospheric pressures less than twenty eight nor greater than thirty one inches of mercury, submitted to relative dew points greater than the current air temperature, exposed to light rain or darkness, insulted, abused, harassed or spoken unkindly to, and, acknowledgment of or scientific proof confirming the existence of any of the aforementioned conditions situations terms stipulations and requirements will render the warranty null and void.
The warranty holder further agrees to and acknowledges the “glow-in-the-dark” feature of the painting does not come with any warranty of serviceability, weather expressed or implied, and that the “glow-in-the-dark” feature is not warranted and Dan Fulwiler is not and will not be held liable or accountable for failure of this feature.
It is further understood and agreed that no real warranty exists and all art should be treated as if it were fragile, delicate and brittle. Handle this piece with care and it will bring you many, many years of pleasure.
Love,
Dan
