The Warfield

[Drunk Monk]

Art nouveau is more round and organic whilst deco is more linear and geometric, although I’ll defer to KB as art is his trade. I studied deco and nouveau back when I did the AFS catalogs because SF has so many architectural elements, including the Warfield style (The mural above the stage is far more nouveau) and I tried to imbue that into the borders. The frames for that pages were my flailing attempt to fuse Art Deco and playing card styles (specifically spades and in swords to spades). No one really got that which was my failing as an artist but it wasn’t to be my path in the end anyway. That’s when I was working the Warfield constantly. It was a nice walk from AFS and I could Bart home. They fed me a good dinner, gave crew a drink after the show, and we partied in the speakeasy during breaks. Those were outrageous blurry daze… this is why I’m not always sure if I’ve seen certain artists because I wasn’t keeping track and worked a ridiculous amount of Warfield shows. Sometimes I’ll come across a poster or crack&peel pass and think ‘wow… I was at this?’

Unfortunately those speakeasy murals are hard to see now. The last time I was there was 2016 - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=3903 - and the speakeasy was packed with storage junk, obscuring more of the wall space. Maybe it’s different now but unlikely.