Saddam Hussein's Incredibly Tacky Taste In Art (NOT An Onion Satire)

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | April 12, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Eric Hooper looks upon a fantasy painting in a house in an upscale neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, April 12, 2003.

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[PJ-Comix]

A few days ago I mentioned something about the tacky looking Saddam statues and then mentioned they were the equivalent of the tacky velvet art paintings you used to see sold at gas stations. Little did I know that Saddam acutally had those types of paintings hanging on his walls. Take a look at this incredibly tacky looking painting. I sure would like to seem some pics of other tacky paintings that Saddam had hanging on his walls.

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[eddie willers]

I'm surprised he doesn't have Frank Frazetta on the walls.
It would seem his style.

[Sally II]

I just goes to show what a truely sick individual he really was.

.... or does it show the relatioship between bad art and bad ideologies?

[PJ-Comix]

I also saw this painting in a Miami Herald story today. The painting was in one of Saddam's "love shacks." And the article mentioned he had lots more of these same type of paintings on the walls.

[PJ-Comix]

Saddams statues were really tacky looking as well. Saddam had absolutely NO TASTE in art.

[graycamel]

That looks like some of the garbage you can buy at the goth/punk stores at the mall. LOL

[July 4th]

I'm just waiting for someone to find a painting from one of the palaces with dogs playing cards.

[Kenno]

Is that the cover for Conan the Fascist?

[Tijeras_Slim]

.... or does it show the relatioship between bad art and bad ideologies?

The Nazis had state sponsored art, so did the Soviets and the Chicoms. But for real depravity, one must look to the NEA.

[scouse]

If it ain't a Velvet Elvis then it ain't art.

[Theresa]

"I'm surprised he doesn't have Frank Frazetta on the walls."

It is exactly like Frazetta! He was a talented man whose art has appeal for teenage boys.

[Sir Gawain]

Well, if it was a Boris Vallejo or Julie Bell work, then it would be cool.

[PJ-Comix]

That looks like some of the garbage you can buy at the goth/punk stores at the mall.

Or at almost any flea market. A lot of folks like this sort of art but they tend to live in trailer parks or...Baghdad palaces.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Care to chime in? Boris did most of your paperback covers if I recall.

[Enterprise]

It does look something like Conan the Barbarian art or something out of Fantasy/SciFi.

[demnomo]

Bad (and I mean bad as in really bad) imitation of Frank Frazetta poster art. I'll bet when the power comes back on in Baghdad, those pictures will be lit-up by blacklights.

More than a few of us FReepers had a swell time mocking out Saddam's Love Shack and Uday's "mobile" Shaggin Wagon the other day. The Hussein families' interior decorator needs to have his or her face plastered on that card deck. Anyone who participated in decoratively outfitting the palaces and safehouses of that fallen regime should be shot on sight for the cold blooded murder of good taste.

[Libloather]

More of that EVIL western influence?

[PJ-Comix]

Here is the Miami Herald article from today that featured this painting:

Troops ogle Hussein's kitschy cloister
Baghdad pad with 1960s theme could have been a safe house
BY CHRIS TOMLINSON
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's fantasy straight from the 1960s: a mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, airbrushed paintings of a topless blond woman and a mustachioed hero battling a crocodile.

Troops believe the home was used by one of Saddam Hussein's mistresses, though on the wall and in the bedroom were photos of the Iraqi president and a woman who appeared to be his wife. The company commander suspected they had found one of Hussein's many safe houses.

FUN HOUSE?

''This must have been Saddam's love shack,'' said Sgt. Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.

The split-level, one-bedroom town house is in a Baath Party enclave in an upscale neighborhood in central Baghdad.

As U.S. officials set up command posts there, troops were going home by home, searching for looters and weapons.

WEAPONS TROVE

Next door, where metal sheets were welded over all the windows, they found more than 6,000 Berretta pistols, 650 Sig Sauer pistols, 248 Colt revolvers, 160 Belgian 7.65mm pistols, 12 cases of Sterling submachine guns and four cases of antitank missiles all still in the unopened original boxes. There were also tens of thousands of rounds of mortar ammunition and cases of old handguns and heavy machine guns.

Not far off was another presidential palace, this one with a Yugoslav-built chemical and biological weapons-proof bunker underneath it.

But the house troops entered was different: beanbag chairs, a garden of plastic plants, a sunken kitchen and a room for a servant, all 1960s-style. The sunken wet bar was stocked with 20-year-old Italian red wines and expensive cognacs, brandies and Scotch whiskeys.

Officials concluded that the house was used by Parisoula Lampsos, who publicly claimed to be Hussein's mistress. She escaped to Lebanon in 2002.

Hussein's wife, Sajida Khairallah Telfah, is also his cousin. Together they had three daughters and two sons, Odai and Qusai. Like her husband, her whereabouts are unknown.

In the house, the king-size bed was fitted into an alcove with mirrors on two sides and a fantasy painting on the third.

MYTHIC FACE-OFF

One of the paintings depicted a topless blond woman, with a green demon behind her, pointing a finger at a mythic hero. From her finger came a giant serpent, which had wrapped itself around the warrior.

[Uncle Meat]

It is exactly like Frazetta! He was a talented man whose art has appeal for teenage boys.

It's more like Boris Vallejo.I'm a Frazetta fan myself,but I'm almost 42,although I dug his paintings since my teens.Molly Hatchet picked a few of his paitings for their album covers.