Entitled: "Molly Crabapple"
Posted on 04/14/2014 12:09:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The greatest work of art George W. Bush ever took part in was in 2008, when an Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at his head. “This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog,” screamed the journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who had been arrested twice by U.S. forces during the occupation.
Bush dodged the shoes with the same ease with which he’d had dodged consequences all his life; those for drunk driving, for ruined companies, stolen elections, war crimes, the destruction of Zaidi’s country.
After he dodged the shoes, Bush joked about free countries. Meanwhile, guards beat Zaidi bloody. Police tortured him during the nine months he served in jail.
Bush’s first art exhibition, “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy,” lacks the apt metaphor of Zaidi’s shoe throw. Bush’s 30 oil-on-board portraits of world leaders will hang at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas through June 3. As artifact, they’re fascinating, even if as art they’re not.
We first got a glimpse at Bush’s paintings in 2013, when a hacker leaked an early batch online. Two nudes went viral—Bush’s feet in the bath and Bush’s back in the shower. What was up with all that bathing imagery? Was he trying to wash out that damn spot? Presidential flesh is still a rarity, even though Bush was renowned for giving unwanted massages, choking on pretzels and wiping his sweaty hands on Bill Clinton’s shirt. But those nudes, unlike the latest paintings of world leaders, were not meant for public consumption. Bush’s exhibition is for posterity. A gift from him to us.
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Entitled: "Molly Crabapple"
Lost me after “stolen elections”. Molly is a kool-aid drinking nut job.
Has he painted Obama? That’s right Obama isn’t a world leader.
I think his work is not bad. Some of it isn’t bad at all.
After all, Bush wouldn’t want to pull a Shepard Fairey and have some disgruntled photographer come after him for copyright infringement. It’s embarrassing enough that bands are suing because their music was played to torture prisoners at Guanatanamo...................................................... Great, where do I sign up, to sue for music I feel is torture. I hear it everyday, “boom poda, boom poda, boom poda”, to me it is torture, but no one seems to care.
Molly sure is practicing that “unbiased journalism” that sets our country apart, isn’t she?
Interesting paintings by W but the article needs a hurl alert.
Apparently Miz Crabapple is indeed an artist, and a talented one. Unlike so many liberal women, she's not hard on the eyes, either.
I wish he would have taken up painting sooner and stayed out of politics.
From her website:
“Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her 2013 solo exhibition, Shell Game, led to her being called “Occupy’s greatest artist” by Rolling Stone, and “an emblem of the way that art could break out of the gilded gallery” by The New Republic. She is the fourth artist in the last decade to draw Guantanamo Bay. Crabapple is a columnist for VICE, and has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, The Paris Review, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, and Der Spiegel. Her illustrated memoir, Drawing Blood will be published by Harper Collins in 2015.”
As a writer, she's a damn poor one. I checked her art and it struck me that she's a rather unremarkable illustrator, but not an inspiring artist.
Bush dodged the shoes with the same ease with which he’d had dodged consequences all his life; those for drunk driving-—like in Chappaquiddick?
Who wrote this, one of letterman’s aholes?
I will bet she is loads of fun at a party. Did she stay in the rape free tent at OWS or live amongst the trash?
That is quite a resemblance!
He was just paving the way for the Teflon Kenyan, Molly.
That chick is losing her hair and she already has a five head.
I’m shocked Miss Crabapple doesn’t resemble either Molly Ivins or Barbara Muculski. (Pardon my spelling!) But she’s a lying jackass, anyway.
yeesh what a hatemonger
I will bet she is loads of fun at a party. Did she stay in the rape free tent at OWS or live amongst the trash?...............................Molly Crabapple is an illustrator, “former burlesque dancer” and founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Makes one wonder.
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