Glory Days presents the archetypal biker with a ZZ Top beard on his Harley Softail. He wears a skeleton bandana, a tattoo, a Harley t-shirt and a Confederate flag. His bike is a reflective red with saddlebags. This portrait references the outlaw/hero personality of Hell's Angels and the Wild Bunch and thus symbolizes freedom, individualism and a general rejection of societal obligations.
"The 1960 biker flicks, positioned motorcyles and their riders as more fundamentally American than the automobile. The correlation between Harleys, freedom and transgression was thus cemented in the public imagination and the icon complete."
- Hall, American Icons
"...this mythic character (the motorcyclist outlaw) has always had the raw frisson of sexuality on his (or her) side - outlaw status and the thundering power of the machine fuse into a unique and potent symbol of desire."
- The Art of the Motorcycle, Guggenheim Museum
Glory Days
Oil on Canvas
40 x 48
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