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Saltz on George W. Bush's Painterly Promise Unfulfilled
New York Magazine ^ | 4/8 | Jerry Saltz

Posted on 04/08/2014 4:31:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 04/08/2014 4:31:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Liberals got their panties in a wad over Bush paintings. They can’t look at anything across the aisle without getting their knickers all tied up.


2 posted on 04/08/2014 4:35:50 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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"diligent high-school senior, maybe a beauty queen perfecting her talent, maybe a mischievous frat boy spying on his father, possibly an onanist"

sort of like this guy's writing?

3 posted on 04/08/2014 4:36:41 PM PDT by gusopol3
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W seems to focus on painting Lizard People. Maybe he’s trying to send us a message.


4 posted on 04/08/2014 4:38:40 PM PDT by txhurl
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Articles like this make it clear it is mental illness not politics.


5 posted on 04/08/2014 4:39:37 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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The lib liked them because they’re not half bad. And he hated himself for liking them.


6 posted on 04/08/2014 4:41:20 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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Why hasn’t this Saltz dweeb been guillotined yet?

Oh yeah, not worth the effort.


7 posted on 04/08/2014 4:41:24 PM PDT by Yardstick
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I think the author needs to get laid.


8 posted on 04/08/2014 4:42:07 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deco et Vives)
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I could be wrong — but I think maybe, just possibly, this Saltz guy doesn’t like President Bush.


9 posted on 04/08/2014 4:43:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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The author.
10 posted on 04/08/2014 4:46:30 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Has Obama’s art progressed beyond crayons?


11 posted on 04/08/2014 4:49:32 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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What amazes me is the sheer volume of this stuff. GWB is really cranking them out.
OK, he isn’t exactly Rembrandt, but still.
Its a very interesting way of, essentially, writing a memoir of his time in office and his understanding of the world. Its clear that GWB “gets” people, under the skin, as complicated and ambiguous characters. He is unable to express this in words, yet, as that sort of thing would be inconveniently controversial. Its too soon. But he can draw a picture.
I have hopes that someday we may get one of the finest (most frank) presidential memoirs.

As for this little dweeb of an art critic, its all about tribal rituals of hate. Anybody but the people he knows are caricatures, against whom he can only apply fixed formulas. As a person he is himself far more two-dimensional than Bush.


12 posted on 04/08/2014 5:08:27 PM PDT by buwaya
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The first paragraph nearly fried my gaydar.


13 posted on 04/08/2014 5:12:14 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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You don’t want to see Bush’s nudes of Vladimir Putin.


14 posted on 04/08/2014 5:14:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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GWB is fascinating to me. Try as I may, I can’t get a handle on him. Who will write the history of these times?


15 posted on 04/08/2014 5:16:43 PM PDT by griswold3 ("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8".)
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That would be great. No sense of humor those Russkies.


16 posted on 04/08/2014 5:18:27 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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You’re right about that. How did you know?


17 posted on 04/08/2014 5:18:56 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Maybe Condoleeza. She has the material and knows where the bodies are buried. On the other hand, she never struck me as the sort of writer that could do the story justice. Lots of information, maybe, but not a lot of art.


18 posted on 04/08/2014 5:23:35 PM PDT by buwaya
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I think Jerry Saltz is either openly gay or still hiding in his lingerie closet.

FMCDH(BITS)

19 posted on 04/08/2014 5:28:55 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nickcarraway

Has anyone seen the art produced by Jerry Saltz?


20 posted on 04/08/2014 5:50:55 PM PDT by Rockpile
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