• George W Bush unveils portraits of world leaders at presidential library in Dallas
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[QUOTE=Killuah;44480129]No. What are you doing.[/QUOTE] Posting and stuff, you? Also, stop making posts and not explaining them, "No.", then fucking explain yourself, why is it obscure and out of place?
You asked me "Would that be in place" and I chose to ignore the sarcasm because reacting to it leads to nothing.
[QUOTE]I mean, come on, the guy who played a big part in waging a few of the biggest wars in recent history is now painting poodles and portraits. Doesn't this sound kind of obscure and out of place?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]why[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]why[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]why[/QUOTE] just answer already
And yeah I can't explain why the guy who had the power to unleash nuclear winter upon the world for 8 years painting cute dogs seems obscure to me.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44475921]They look so naive, his paintings. How could he get President?[/QUOTE] Maybe because during his time in office, he gained vital insights into the nature of the messy things called politics and international relations and is now - by painting these portraits - questioning the structure of societies and nations? Why are we, as the human race, being so aggressive and defensive when the best path for humanity, obviously, is cooperation? Defending our fictitious borders and differentiating ourselves through the places we just happened to be born into? Ending human lives because of the artificial constructs that were put into place for trivial reasons? You question why Bush became president because of some subjective quality that you observe in the paintings he produces years later. I don't see the point of that.
Art always shows a lot about the artist himself and his paintings are as simplistic as his rhetoric and general image always seemed to me. And him being somewhat anti-intellectual(to put it nicely) was always well-preceived in the media. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism[/url] You're free to interpret his art the way you like but to me his simple style and most of all simple subjects just further the image I have of him and I'm seriously questioning how someone as simple as him could become the most poweful man in the world.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480326]Art always shows a lot about the artist himself and his paintings are as simplistic as his rhetoric and general image always seemed to me. And him being somewhat anti-itellectual(to put it nicely) was always well-preceived in the media.[/QUOTE] You can look at his paintings, call them simplistic and then claim that that automatically extends to Bush himself; but you could also, for example, be appreciative of the message that Bush is apparently trying to send - one of friendship and tolerance. Be appreciative of the fact that this man is doing paintings of world leaders and dogs in a positive sense. You can call it whatever you want but you cannot deny that Bush is sending a positive message to the world after whatever he did years ago.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480326]Art always shows a lot about the artist himself and his paintings are as simplistic as his rhetoric and general image always seemed to me. And him being somewhat anti-intellectual(to put it nicely) was always well-preceived in the media. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism[/url] You're free to interpret his art the way you like but to me his simple style and most of all simple subjects just further the image I have of him and I'm seriously questioning how someone as simple as him could become the most poweful man in the world.[/QUOTE] Wondering how someone as simple as you can question that, you're not so innocent when it comes to "anti-intellectual" yourself Killuah
[QUOTE=Raygen;44480381]You can look at his paintings, call them simplistic and then claim that that automatically extends to Bush himself; but you could also, for example, be appreciative of the message that Bush is apparently trying to send - one of friendship and tolerance. Be appreciative of the fact that this man is doing paintings of world leaders and dogs in a positive sense. You can call it whatever you want but you cannot deny that Bush is sending a positive message to the world after whatever he did years ago.[/QUOTE] That doesn't necessarily exclude each other though. I'm not even trying to cast a negative image, I'm really just wondering how someone as uncomplex as him became president. That's not meant in a negative way and yet explains a lot.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480428]That doesn't necessarily exclude each other though. I'm not even trying to cast a negative image, I'm really just wondering how someone as uncomplex as him became president. That's not meant in a negative way and yet explains a lot.[/QUOTE] Perhaps he appears simple but that could also be nothing more than an unfortunate or clumsy manner of conducting himself. We have no way of knowing and the media can certainly not be trusted as a source.
I just think that you'd need a certain degree of cynicism to carry out all the cynic and bigoted tasks the governments are doing. I mean come on, this is the guy who suposedly was either cynic enough to lie about the WMDs in Iraq or was deceived by his own ministers about the issue. I can't image the first kind painting puppies and I can't see the second kind have any weight behind his message.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480326]Art always shows a lot about the artist himself [/QUOTE] PPffahahaahaha, no.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;44474352]Hitler was a pretty good painter, I wonder why he never got into art school.[/QUOTE] the perspective of everything was too fucked up. Check out the doorway on the right building with the stairs leading up to it, or the fountain, or the corner of the two buildings, or the far right chimney, or the archway on the left, or how the building on the right doesn't match up with the curb infront of it and I'm sure there's more, that's just everything I saw at a glance
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;44483277]the perspective of everything was too fucked up. Check out the doorway on the right building with the stairs leading up to it, or the fountain, or the corner of the two buildings, or the far right chimney, or the archway on the left, or how the building on the right doesn't match up with the curb infront of it and I'm sure there's more, that's just everything I saw at a glance[/QUOTE] Now I remember why I hated art class...
Those paintings are fucking terrible. What the fuck is wrong with you guys. Fascist pig or not he's not that great of a painter. Clearly this is apologist bullshit that's going on.
[QUOTE=Dark One;44477437]actually pretty good. putin actually looks depressed. [editline]7th April 2014[/editline] ironically he was a good leader, he took a nation falling apart and been destroyed by stuff from the first world war and turn it into a world power.. some of the things that the nazis did during the second world war were unthinkable but they did some good with constructing and creating a lot of things that people use today and don't even know about. but it would of ended quickly if the war had gone on for a few more years they had a prototype atomic weapon that was tested in Poland only the plane that was to deliver it was still in construction or several cities around the world would of been hit beginning with new york. that bomber was never constructed* but the plans still exist in a few archives, as for its counterpart the horten 229 it was..[/QUOTE] The Germans were no where close to having a functional nuke, especially after Britain went and wrecked all their heavy water production.
That portrait actually makes Howard look really warm.
[img]http://assets-s3.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/article_photos/george-bush-paintings-lg.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/7.1119526!/image/3974178449.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_476/3974178449.jpg[/img] [img]http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/george-w-bush-painting.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/08/article-2290319-18861B5E000005DC-614_634x341.jpg[/img] I really like them.
They're about high-school-assignment quality, but it's still charming that he should've gone on to do something creative after his terms.
I like most of them A hell of a lot better than I could paint.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480099]It's more about the poodles and all that. I mean, come on, the guy who played a big part in waging a few of the biggest wars in recent history is now painting poodles and portraits. Doesn't this sound kind of obscure and out of place?[/QUOTE] George Bush was a patsy, it's nice to see that he's got something in his life other than politics. Just look at Dick Cheney who still has to put his shit opinion out there even though most of the U.S. thinks he's a war-mongering pig. Bush doesn't do any of that, he's happy to relax on his ranch and paint. He was used as an everyman for blue collar America to get behind so that people like Cheney could declare war and kickstart the military-industrial complex that provides defense contractors (i.e. Cheney's Haliburton) with millions if not billions of dollars in government contracts. So, good for Bush, glad he's doing this instead of living up to be the evil that Cheney is, shows me that he's a real person. [editline]9th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Cypher_09;44497384][img]http://assets-s3.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/article_photos/george-bush-paintings-lg.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/7.1119526!/image/3974178449.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_476/3974178449.jpg[/img] [img]http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/george-w-bush-painting.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/08/article-2290319-18861B5E000005DC-614_634x341.jpg[/img] I really like them.[/QUOTE] Me too.
The sarkozy one is a good likeness The Stephen Harper one looks bad to me, but I also hate harpers face so I'm not objective enough to criticize the work
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;44474100]Just to be sure, you guys arent forgetting that he is responsible for the financial destruction of your nation? And thus the ruination of millions of lives worldwide? The death and destruction his foreign policies have wrought?[/QUOTE] Just because someone did bad things doesn't mean you can't enjoy the more 'good human' (or whatever you want to call it) side of things they did/do.
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