• Nude painting of Canadian Prime Minister surfaces
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[img]http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/archives/sunnews/politics/media/2012/05/20120518-182735-g.jpg[/img] [quote]A nude painting of Canada's prime minister has politicians and Tim Hortons employees cracking jokes, pundits crying foul and one federal department reportedly offering up cash. Titled Emperor Haute Couture, the portrait hanging in a Kingston, Ont., public library shows a full monty Stephen Harper, leaning back on a chaise lounge chair surrounded by a doting team with a terrier at his feet, about to sip a steaming Tim Hortons coffee. "We were pretty upset when we saw the painting," David Morelli, spokesman for Tim Hortons, told QMI Agency. "We'd never flip the tab on a hot coffee before serving a naked customer. Obvious safety hazard." Members of Parliament were equally stern. "It's probably the only double-double in the picture," said Liberal MP Scott Brison. "Nudes have been part of art for hundreds of years, so I don't find the painting morally offensive. Perhaps aesthetically offensive. This is a case where we need a Conservative cover-up." The artist's agent, Mary Sue Rankin, said one federal government ministry - she wouldn't say which one - contacted her with an offer to buy the painting. Brison said he doesn't care who buys it. "I am sure it will be well hung somewhere." Even the Prime Minister's Office piped in on the painting on Twitter. "We're not impressed. Everyone knows the PM is a cat person," said Andrew MacDougall, Harper's director of Communications. With the title 'Haute Couture' and the use of Tim Hortons, some see it as a sneer at Canada's working class. "This is a shot at everyday Canadians who do begin their mornings by going to Tim Hortons. It's the artist's way of showing disdain for those people the way she is showing disdain for the prime minister," said Brian Lilley, host of Byline on Sun News Network. But artist Maggie Sutherland calls it a throwback to traditional European paintings and a criticism of government spin. On sale for $5,000, the art work is a recreation of Manet's 1863 painting Olympia, which features a reclining nude woman attended to by a black woman. "It's a political social satire based on an existing tradition of paintings that have been going on in Europe for 300 years at least," Sutherland told QMI Agency on Friday, adding on Sun News Network it was "inspired by a certain amount of frustration with the spin that we get from the government." "She was just fed up with all the cuts to arts programs by the Harper government," said Rankin, adding the woman serving the coffee represents the Harper government's lack of women in Cabinet positions. The image of the prime minister stripped of the trappings of power appealed to Dara Siegel, 27, of Kingston. "When you think about people who are in positions of power, the elite of the country, prime ministers specifically, they are kind of, like, ahead of you. They are always well dressed, they are very properly presented," she said. "What I like about this painting is that it kind of subverts that, and counters it by saying, oh, he's just like us." For others, though, reaction to the painting was a little simpler. Marilyn Birmingham, chair of the library's art committee, said that a 10-year-old boy, when asked what he thought of it, told his mother: "I didn't know Stephen Harper had a dog."[/quote] [url=http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/05/20120518-182735.html]**SFW SOURCE**[/url] [url=http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/227244/slide_227244_991717_free.jpg] ***TOTALLY NSFW! DO NOT CLICK ON A FULL STOMACH!***[/url] :suicide:
[QUOTE=MIPS;36024438][URL="http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/227244/slide_227244_991717_free.jpg"] ***TOTALLY NSFW! DO NOT CLICK ON A FULL STOMACH!***[/URL] :suicide:[/QUOTE] It's just a painting, holy crap. A well done painting at that.
Well there goes my full stomach :/
what the hell is going on in the background?
Canada, your Prime Minister has a very small p[sp]ainting[/sp].
[QUOTE=Andokool12;36024444]It's just a painting, holy crap. A well done painting at that.[/QUOTE] Do you not see a picture of a current prime minister ass naked, or do you have a thing for naked old people? [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/emoicons/vomit.gif[/IMG]
The jokes in the SFW source are hilarious. [QUOTE]"We were pretty upset when we saw the painting," David Morelli, spokesman for Tim Hortons, told QMI Agency. "We'd never flip the tab on a hot coffee before serving a naked customer. Obvious safety hazard."[/QUOTE] (Tim Horton is a coffee company)
How bad can the NSFW link be OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK, BLAAAARG BLAAAARG
That's actually a really good painting.
[quote]"We're not impressed. Everyone knows the PM is a cat person," said Andrew MacDougall, Harper's director of Communications. [/quote] it's pretty awesome that they took it in good spirit
Oh God Stephen why?
He's at the Church of Canada!
[QUOTE=Frankiscool!;36024469]what the hell is going on in the background?[/QUOTE] My immediate thought was, "It's good to be the king"
OH MY GOD! THERE'S A DOG
Well, at least it's not as extreme as Justine Lai's paintings of American presidents.
This is amazing. No shit-flipping over nothing and even a good painting... Ya know, if you ignore that itty little bit he has there...
[QUOTE=MIPS;36024481]Do you not see a picture of a current prime minister ass naked, or do you have a thing for naked old people? [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/emoicons/vomit.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] Seeing Harper naked is weird but once you get past that it's just a nude dude on a couch. Have you seen the episode of Seinfeld where George poses for a photoshoot in his underwear?
I like how everyone mentioned in the article all have a sense of humour.
Well that's that.
[QUOTE=Liem;36024487]How bad can the NSFW link be OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK, BLAAAARG BLAAAARG[/QUOTE] He'll be featured on rule 34 paheal soon enough.
[QUOTE=Liem;36024487]How bad can the NSFW link be OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK, BLAAAARG BLAAAARG[/QUOTE] Be careful, you might see his dingaling. Mommy says they're bad.
[QUOTE=toastedspyro;36024643]I like how everyone mentioned in the article all have a sense of humour.[/QUOTE] thats because we're canadian, have you ever seen a canadian get really angry about anything? [editline]20th May 2012[/editline] except if we dont get our hockey and timmies, then GTFO of the way
Ha ha, your Prime Minister's got a chode!
if i ever got painting like that, i would just tell the artist to make my penis bigger
i go on facepunch and this is what i came to [sp]hehehe[/sp]
It would have been funnier if the PM had posed for this in his youth and it came back to haunt him or something.
Saw the picture right after eating some hot dogs. My stomach remains unmoved.
I was expecting shitstorm, just goes to show that canada isn't as similar to the usa as people joke. Although this is actually tasteful, maybe a dumb idea to do anything like this when you're a career politician.
[url]http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/851639#c2896651[/url] :nws: he has a dog guizes. :p
Draw me like on of your french girls.
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