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Portraits of world leaders by George W. Bush
Topic Started: Apr 5 2014, 11:21 AM (110 Views)
Tybee
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I'm embarrassed FOR him.

http://news.yahoo.com/portraits-george-w-bush-display-172518628.html

Just one example. Many more images at the link.

Vlad "The Impaler" Putin
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Like you I saw those and was not impressed. Why is this even news?
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A British perspective c/o the Guardian:

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Americans do tend to be forgiving of their more controversial presidents. This generosity is surely born of national self-regard. If you see the presidency as peopled by monsters how can you love your country? So like Nixon before him, Dubya is getting reassessed, or at least repackaged, his martial presidency forgotten in America's cosy reception of his cute paintings, unveiled in a television interview with his own daughter.

It's like being nice about the family idiot's latest art project. Aw, isn't that sweet, poor George has done paintings of world leaders. He's putting them in his little museum. The soppiness is unmitigated: early online reactions blathered moist-eyed about him capturing Vladimir Putin's "soul". His portrait of Putin actually looks like something you would find in one of America's trash-rich Salvation Army stores and buy to laugh at. It's got a classic amateur clumsiness and oddity to it.

Idiocy in art has its charms. In the man who ran the free world into bloodstained buffers, those charms quickly sour. These empty headed daubs look the work of someone you wouldn't trust to mow a lawn without cutting someone's foot off. Winston Churchill also took up art as a hobby and even won respect as a serious painter – the art historian EH Gombrich compared him with Constable. But there was every reason to be kind to Churchill the painter. He had earned his pleasures.
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Erna
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Putin is ok, but Bush and all the other 'leaders' he portrays will burn in hell for their participatia in global mass-murders.
Edited by Erna, Apr 5 2014, 01:08 PM.
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If you want to start painting in your retirement, that's wonderful. But don't embarrass yourself by letting the whole world see your monstrosities if you clearly have minimal talent.

I thought it telling he apparently didn't think enough of any of his cohorts during his tenure in Washington to put their punims to canvas. I hope Dick Cheney feels slighted.
Edited by Tybee, Apr 5 2014, 03:05 PM.
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They look like paint by number.
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Tybee
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I wondered if he was going for a Grandma Moses technique. Maybe his creations will one day be worth a fortune as her's are.
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We would enjoy 'doing' W - provided our fee was paid in cash up front.....
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
Apr 6 2014, 04:59 PM
We would enjoy 'doing' W - provided our fee was paid in cash up front.....
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present: The World's Oldest Hooker! :bow
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Mrs Patrick Campbell
Apr 6 2014, 04:59 PM
We would enjoy 'doing' W - provided our fee was paid in cash up front.....
that shouldn't be a problem

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The media is acting like the emperor's new clothes. These works look like the crap you find in thrift stores done by somone's grandma in therapy class.

http://www.thriftstoreart.com/
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