Posted on 04/13/2017 8:53:31 AM PDT by Ennis85
George W Bush, the former US president, is promoting a book of paintings, entitled Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors, depicting American soldiers - veterans from the ongoing "war on terror".
The George W Bush Presidential Center tells us that the book "brings together sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of members of the United States military who have served our Nation with honour since 9/11 - and whom he has come to know personally". The hardcover edition costs an affordable $35; the deluxe, signed and personalised edition sets you back $350, with proceeds from sales going to a non-profit organisation that helps veterans.
Bush's latest efforts received a largely positive review from Mimi Swartz in the New York Times. The title of her article, Art of Redemption, hints - in its use of the word "redemption" - that having sinned and fallen from grace, "W" is trying to regain possession of his soul and his humanity through his paintings.
Bush, who is famously a "Born-Again Christian", does not need to make these paintings in order to seek absolution from his God. However, he clearly feels the need to do something to gain favour from his earthly critics.
Admittedly, Bush's portraits depict thoughtful engagements with his subjects - their contemplative expressions sometimes hinting that they have turned inward, sitting before the man who sent them to war. However, these paintings - with each painful stroke attempting to honourably depict individual American "warriors" - are also about recapturing Bush's legitimacy as the former Commander in Chief of US Armed Forces.
Swartz, in her New York Times article, notes that audiences and art critics were in "shock and awe" at Bush's growth as a painter -
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
My theory is W’s painting is some sort of therapy for him. Good man, lousy president.
His only crime is charging thirty-five bucks for them.
Please take him and his entire globalist abortion-loving family!
I no longer say a word in defense of a Bush. I’ve even started to enjoy watching the Tribe get their share of heat and criticism, particularly their lazy, pro-abortion cows.
I’ll gladly let the UN take and extradite him for so called war crimes when the UN and the international courts prosecute Jihadist warlords, Communists, socialists and gangbangers.
If he was a “famous” born-again Christian, why do I recall nothing of it?
White wash much?
Meh.....Bush KNOWS how culpable he was/ is
No paint in the world will cover that
The hardcover edition costs an affordable $35;
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That’s published price but you can buy the book on
Amazon for less than $18.
Good to see this. Give the whole Bush family grief for the rest of their lives.
“The hardcover edition costs an affordable $35;”
But you can buy “The Foot Book” for $4.79.
Hitler painted too..........just sayin’
Good man, lousy president.
Is he? Is he a good man?
On what do you base that assessment?
Bush and his entire clan are globalist oligarchs that care nothing for America, Christianity, or Western Civilization.
"Good man" my ass.
I go along with that also.
“On what do you base that assessment? “
Your ass.
W. Bush?
The guy who opened training centers in Mexico to instruct potential “immigrants”
what tax payer funded welfare “benefits” would be available to and how to apply for them?
Oh, yeah! That W. Bush.
I guess few of you actually read the article.
She is trying to paint President Bush as a war crazed madman who attacked two countries for no reason whatsoever while causing the death and maiming of innocent people and soldiers. She paints the soldiers as psychopathic criminals who raped and murdered their way across the two countries.
This is a total mythic hit job against the US and President Bush by AL JAZEERA.
I especially like how these were imperialist wars, because we have now added those countries to our empire.
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