R.S.Beal SURRE'ALISTE - Altered States - Graphics - Oils

7 by 11" Etching (Aquatint, line, minor drypoint work) Printed in Dark Umber/Sienna on Graphic Heavyweight

'Intaglio Prints after 2008'

First State
R.S. Beal "The Little Miss Hiroshima" Etching 2010
Aquatint and Line 2nd state 6 by 4 1/2"
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bombed August 6, 1945 at 2:45 AM -
That night, even the Moon had Eyes, but the eyes melted into one massive rubble . . .
ALSO R.S. Beal's first print, of the literary work, 'Les Chants de Maldoror' by Isadore Ducasse, a truely 'automatic' (autonomous-unconscious) etching, somewhat after Dali, albeit original, in execution and style.

"Les Chants de Maldoror" (Plates)
Isadore Ducasse (Comte de Lautreamont: 1846-70)

R.S. Beal 'Dead Dogs' Etching (Aquatint and Line)
5 by 4" 2010
3rd plate for 'Songs de Maldoror: - Printed on Tiepolo Fabriano: 250gsm 100% Cotton/Acid free (Italian paper in Black ink and in Umber-dark) - Edition Size: 50 sheets/signed-dated and numbered

R.S. Beal 'The Picture Makers' (after DALI) Les chants Maldoror/Ducasse
(The Songs of Maldoror) 5 by 7" 1rststate print

- from Les Chants de Maldoror - Isadore Ducasse(1846-70) - Comte de Lautre'amont (French Publication, originally published in 1868-69), applauded by Breton as pure Marvelous violence, in literature, Isadore Ducasse was virtually unknown during his life. Ducasse's publisher refused to distribute the work, in fear of retaliation, due to it's violence. Dali was invited to illustrate, in engravings and Etchings, Isadores amazing poetical work around 1930. These etchings are Dali's only real 'etched' works, prior to his own 'avida dollar' cretinization and his known signing of blank sheets of paper. The MOMA has the complete collection and original publicaton of Dali's prints and illustrated book of Les Chants de Maldoror. -

- The Golden Horde of Batu Khan, Mongol Tatars, 13th Century, a tribal group of nomads that overran eastern Europe. - Also 'Deaths Treasure', (Incident in Haiti).

- Fannus is a rural deity (god of animals and prophecy). Faust is a drama by Goethe who associates with Mephistopheles - The original title of this very small and obsolete, adolescent work (etching) was "Faustus-The Time Card Bomber", as it is common observation and knowledge, that children from any culture, can be made to believe in ANYTHING, even suicide, even in gods, in witch's, in politics, in greed, superstitions, religions, jinn's, etc., etc., if it's repeated to them over and over and over. Culture, as we know it, commonly, is actually a joke . . . played out on humans by themselves -

- one of over 250 etched master plates, all stolen around 1986-88, ONLY half dozen prints survived the extensive thefts -

Dali illustrated or etched Lautre'amont's 'Les Chants de Maldoror' in 1933-34. In Dali's plate XIV, 'Saturn' is devouring a child trapped in a sewing machine or Lautre'mont's, now, classic phrase - 'as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an unbrella on a dissecting table', - which the Surrealists, were in no doubt, had sexual symbolism's and connotations attached.

Paper, edition size and ink color varies and depends solely on type of etching and requirements needed for any specific plate. ALL plates are printed (IMP), inked and hand wiped by artist and not a second studio, atlier or third party.

- while I've never thought much of Picasso's work, this is obviously a reference to his etching of the 'Minotaur/Bull myth' - it's a quickly drawn and heavily bitten plate -