Post Neo-Geo Artist Seeking Validation by Beau Tardy. |
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Paintings On Demand by Beau Tardy
Post Neo-Geo Artist Seeking Validation. New Art by Beau Tardy. I will paint this on canvas for $500 shipping included (USA only + $50 for overseas) - Acrylic Paint on 24"x24" Square Shaped Gallery Wrapped Canvas - Made with archival-quality, 100% cotton. The medium-weight cotton duck is stretched around 3/4" profile kiln-dried stretcher bars and held in place with a flexible spline. 0.75" (1.9 cm) wood frame profile. Conforms to ASTM D-4236. Please specify with or without tagline - Painted by Hand, Multiples available (numbered & dated) ---
Sunday, April 24, 2022
NFT free giveaway and contest***
New "NFTS are not ART" #NFT by Beau Tardy Exclusively Available on Teia.art |
"HIGH" original painting by Beau Tardy, Artist. Acrylic, spraypaint and gold paint on canvas 30x24". Currently valued at $300 >click here< |
Monday, March 22, 2021
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Miniatures ~ Wood Panels Acrylic and Gold Metal Paint *sold*
Acrylic & Gold Metal on Wood Panel 10"x10" by Beau Tardy Artist, 2019. |
Acrylic & Gold Metal on Wood Panel 10"x10" by Beau Tardy Artist, 2019. They were featured in the 10x10" Art Show 2019 at Hardy & Nance in January. |
Thursday, November 29, 2018
New Smurf Paintings
These are spraypaint and acrylic on 12"x 12" canvas. Set of 7 canvasses can be arranged in any pattern or bought separately. |
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Hardy & Nance Studios Gallery
"Smurf 5 *" Work on paper, Rustoleum spray paint. Framed 24" x 24" ***sold! |
Hardy & Nance Studios. My kind of gallery! |
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Painting Auctioned for Ronald McDonald House
Papa Smurf Dope McDonalds - ©2018 Beau Tardy Artist Mixed media & acrylic paint on board. |
At Comicpalooza this year, artists were picked to auction off their work to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House Charities which provide shelter, support and resources to families who travel far from home for the medical care their child needs. The art was made live on site during a two hour period and then auctioned off. Here is my entry that was snapped up by a lucky collector.
Thursday, March 15, 2018
My Wimpy Painting for a Houston Heights Restaurant was Stolen!
Wimpy by Beau Tardy ©2018 |
Monday, December 11, 2017
Prints now available.
High-end gallery quality prints are now available of selected works.
Image size 8"x10". Signed and framed $50 (+ shipping).
*watermark and digital signature do not appear on original print*
Signed and dated. Unframed. Shipped rolled. $100 (+ shipping)
*watermark and digital signature do not appear on original print*
Monday, November 13, 2017
HUE Houston Mural Festival 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Vox Culture Art Mixer at Axelrad Beer Garden
Saturday, August 5, 2017
'HIGH' original canvas on sale for only $500 (+shipping)
HIGH 30"X 24"/ SPRAY PAINT & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS/ GLOSS FINISH |
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Paris, America Opening Feb. 13 Barrister's Gallery
'Dope' by Beau Tardy. Spraypaint, acrylic, stencil on canvas. |
Friday, December 18, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Monday, November 9, 2015
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Ink is thicker than blood.
For an American audience, Charlie Hebdo is like a crossover between Mad Magazine and underground comix from the 60s, full of satire and sex. It’s as if Robert Crumb and Jon Stewart had just been gunned down during a board meeting at Comedy Central.
I lived in France and read Charlie Hebdo throughout my teens. So I am using the hashtags #JeSuisCharlie #IAmCharlieHebdo to show my support for fellow cartoonists and express my utter sadness at their brutal murders.
However this hashtag, while well intentioned, is misleading. For if everyone is ‘Charlie Hebdo’ then everyone is a victim, which is exactly what the terrorists want. But if ‘being Charlie’ means having the guts to stand up to censorship in ALL its forms, including having the right to poke islamic fanaticism in the eye, then I’m all for it. Unfortunately, I feel the opposite is beginning to happen.
London imam Anjem Choudary correctly said in defense of the Paris shootings: “If freedom of expression can be sacrificed for criminalising incitement & hatred, Why not for insulting the Prophet of Allah? #ParisShooting — Anjem Choudary (@anjemchoudary)”
His ironclad logic is unassailable in this world of political correctness and ‘tolerance’. When you outlaw ONE WORD, you potentially outlaw them all. When freedom of expression, WHATEVER IT MAY BE gets threatened, freedom of thought gets censored too.
People are already being jailed for saying something stupid on Facebook or posting videos. Professionals are being fired for their political or religious views. ‘Hate speech’ is a criminal offense. But who gets to determine what qualifies as hate speech? Does Anjem Choudary get to make that call? And if not, why not?
If it is NOT OK to use certain words, whichever they may be, whatever the context, then censorship has already begun. Cartoonists, writers, artists, thinkers will begin to self-censure in the name of tolerance to disguise their fear. This is already happening.
Certain thoughts and opinions become taboo and mental repression sets in, whether it be coerced or self-inflicted. History is littered with entire civilizations being brainwashed this way, ie: Nazism or Communism. This is not something new.
What is new is that our generation, from the mid 20th century until now, has never had to face a true war on the Western homeland. We have enjoyed over 65 years of peace, with no major disruption to our modern way of life.
It felt natural for me as a kid and a teenager to dream of becoming a professional cartoonist. In fact, I have based my whole life on believing that being an artist was a valid, useful and worthwhile profession. I went to art school, got jobs doing illustrations, TV graphics, magazine layouts, paintings, video installations, music concerts and my childhood dream: cartoons. Even though I have had to navigate economic ups and downs, I always believed being an artist was a good thing.
Now art has been weaponized. Artists are at the forefront of a cultural war.
Every artist is going to ask themselves if their art will offend. Some will seek out controversy as a shortcut to publicity but most others cower away and end up erasing their ‘provocative’ drawings. The net effect, I fear in the long run will be that fewer and fewer people will stand up for those who are genuine champions of free speech, like Charlie Hebdo.
So while it’s great to say #IAmCharlieHebdo, especially when everyone else is doing it, who will in the end be bold enough to risk everything to say something that is politically incorrect, or offensive to some, or ‘hate speech’?
I am an artist and I can’t answer that question.
Beau Tardy