SERIOUS ART COLLECTORS: “I guarantee this piece will be legendary as this movement is just catching fire”

Vance Hanna , chairman Emeritus Art &Design

ALTHOUGH PAULS IS RELATIVELY UNKNOWN AS AN ARTIST. HE WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 'STREET ARTIST' THAT HAUNTED THE HAITE ASHBERRY DISTRICT OF SAN FRANCISCO. I WAS THERE AND THIS IS HIS STORY......

Futurism if ever shown by Hell's Angle: RICK PAULES                                                         un- framed  overall dimensions: 8.5" [21cm] x 11" [28cm]

This incredible  gem of a Acid Trip by Rick Paules of San Francisco  (deceased) was done on the streets of Haight Ashbury in San Francisco 1969.  I was there, as an artist and student. The work is done in a direct style with simple watercolor. By his recording of an acid trip with his girlfriend (shown as an out of the body experience) he has moved into the ether of the future as he's shown himself with her clearly tuning into the internet via the at time a large box of a television . 

He was selling his painting of Acid Trips and pretty much looking for cash.  I was observant enough to realize that this fellow and his girlfriend (shown nude in the painting with him), were on the edge of a more futuristic voyage into the future and that specifically of communications. The television is an old 'box' like object as most were at the time, unless you were of a class that could afford a more 'slimmer' looking plastic box and possibly even a portable. Wow you'd be big time!  But that is not the point. What is certainly a major paradigm shift is that Paules could see into his Acid Trip via the TV! He was the future. He went there.

Notice how the artist has viewed the image from a spatial perspective, above the couple, and in a total 'other world' setting. They are tuning into the 'internet' which was another twenty years away! (sorry Al Gore)  When I saw this work I knew I had to collect it for posterity. 

Although the work is certainly considered 'outsider' art or primative it is beyond that. It is paradigm breaking.  If you are a serious art collector as I am, you'll realize the importance of such work. Was not Jean-Michel Basquiat a street artist?  Kaws, a phenomenon, why him? And what about Jeff Koons? Think he’s smart/ trained: he has 20 or so real trained technical artists executing for his ideas while he makes porn movies with his porn star wife! 

Here is an artist, true in the sense that he is not a trained as AN  artist yet many today collected might only be pushed by the NY media... as creative souls or as Eric Rhodes calls them: Squirt gun Artists.  

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