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2004-01-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Painting depicts Bush holding bin Ladenâs severed head

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-08 12:01:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of LoBaidoâs paintings, "Have Faith," depicts President Bush as a cavalry soldier holding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladenâs severed head in one hand and a American flag in the other.

...and this is a problem because?....

A large canvas titled "The New York Giants" features former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a New York City firefighter and a police officer -- all clad in armor and on horseback -- in the midst of a battle scene.

And I think I'd like to see that one. As the old saying goes, I may not know art, but I know what I like...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-1-8 12:11:05 AM|| 2004-1-8 12:11:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 --"Politics has always been bloody and we respect free speech and we think his activism through art is an exciting dimension," said National Arts Club President Aldon James.--

Translation - we'll get more grant money!

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-8 12:42:28 AM|| 2004-1-8 12:42:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Most excellent. Interesting because, given the nature of the art world, patriotic art would be about as avant-garde as you can get. For more than 50 years modern art has been totally dominated by the "ironic" and has been strongly tinged with anti-American, anti-Western themes...

I doubt this guy is the beginning of a trend, but one can always hope.

Posted by R. McLeod 2004-1-8 2:25:43 AM|| 2004-1-8 2:25:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Personally I would have liked to see a painting (photograph) of Giulliani marching trough the streets of New York while holding the head of Osama by the beard, but this one is pretty cool as well.

Posted by chinditz 2004-1-8 4:31:44 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/] 2004-1-8 4:31:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I want a print.
MK,it is a problem because the Looney Left art world like 85% of Acadamia does not like Patriotic art.
Now if it had been a picture of a U.S. soldier bayoneting babies people like NMM would call that art.Take for instance the artist who laid the American flag on the ground and encouraged people to walk on it,or the one who covered a statue of the Virgin Mary with fecal matter,ya' see the Looney Left consider that kind of desecration a free expresion of art.

Posted by raptor 2004-1-8 7:26:24 AM|| 2004-1-8 7:26:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Me likes!

Time to show some support to the National Arts Club for being a REAL alternative!

Posted by Ptah 2004-1-8 7:44:43 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-1-8 7:44:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 when i first read this i thought the artist in question was a leftie making fun of Bush. I mean it sounds totally tacky. BTW the stuff you dont like isnt really classic modern art its more performance art, Dadaist influenced post modern art, etc. Classic modern art may have leaned left, but was VERY serious - think Picasso's Guernica. The proposed WTC memorial is very definitely modernist (IMHO) with influence from My Lin's Viet Nam memorial.

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-1-8 10:18:23 AM|| 2004-1-8 10:18:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 yup, looked at it, its totally tacky and poorly crafted. Contrast with the sculpture in the post above, which is definitely traditional, and a tad sentimental for my taste, but which is at least well crafted, and is arguably tasteful, and moving in its own way. If you want to make a case for traditional patriotic art, use the sculpture above, not this thing.

Posted by liberalhawk 2004-1-8 10:22:23 AM|| 2004-1-8 10:22:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I like it -- I hope the artist sends prints to Pres. Bush, Hamid Karzai, and Saddam's cell...

Posted by snellenr 2004-1-8 10:58:48 AM|| 2004-1-8 10:58:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I like the idea,however the execution sucks, my 7 year old has a better sense of proportion than this clown. This guy is an amateur, an artist is the guy who made the statue in the previous post.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-1-8 12:38:01 PM|| 2004-1-8 12:38:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 raptor-
Agree with you 100%. But let me suggest that once something like this gets notice as 'art' (in the sense that the LLL has previoulsy considered it), it knocks another brick out of the wall, and we get that much closer to something resembling normal.

Best regards,
Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-1-8 12:43:38 PM|| 2004-1-8 12:43:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Looks more like Andrew Jackson. In fact, I think it's very like a picture of AJ that I once saw.

Posted by rabidfox 2004-1-8 3:10:10 PM|| 2004-1-8 3:10:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Damn it does look like Old Hickory. The jihadis should do a double dip and thank allah that ole boy ain't around.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-8 3:32:21 PM|| 2004-1-8 3:32:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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