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"At first you think, what is this woman doing in jail? Then you realize it is the bars on the back of a truck and she is on a poster advertising a movie." Using his ubiquitous truckers verbiage, this time painted primarily in French, La Femme Fatale seeks to reflect on the Feminist Movement with it's subtle and yet literally in your face symbolism. "The bars appear as a jail; the door near her forehead is inscribed with the message Keep Closed - yet it is unlatched; the Anti-Sail mud flaps note the mood of the times as they once were whereupon the title is delineating the idea of a free woman of thought: La Femme Fatale."

Blue Sky Post-War American b.1938 as Warren Edward Johnson, legally changed name in 1974 signed paintings previously to 1974 as WAR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Studied at the Art Students League in New York 1965, & University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1961 Received Bachelors and Masters degrees from University of South Carolina, (1964 & 1970) Studied under Edmund Yaghjian - (Yaghjian was an Armenian immigrant and friend and student of Ash Can artists, Sloan and Henri) Received Order of the Palmetto -- the states highest civilian honor in 2000. GSA Commissioned federal mural, 1978 -- won Design Award, original rendition for mural...