Tribune Chronicle:Mellencamp Showcases Talent
Someone once told John Mellencamp that if he really wanted to sell his work, he needed to paint still lifes and flowers.
“I don’t want to sell paintings that bad,” Mellencamp said.
One walk through “John Mellencamp: Expressionist,” which opened Thursday at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, is proof that he didn’t take that advice. Inspired by the work of German expressionist painters, Mellencamp’s work is filled with dark subject matter and figures that range from sad to serious to grotesque.
