With "creator" Christopher Savido...
Posted on 12/21/2004 5:55:03 PM PST by hipaatwo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A portrait of President Bush (news - web sites) using monkeys to form his image that was banished from a New York art show last week amid charges of censorship was projected on a giant billboard in Manhattan on Tuesday.
"Bush Monkeys," a small acrylic on canvas by Chris Savido, created the stir last week at the Chelsea Market public space, leading the market's managers to close down the 60-piece show.
Animal Magazine, a quarterly arts publication that had organized the month-long show, said anonymous donors had paid for the picture to be posted on a giant digital billboard over the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, used by thousands of commuters traveling between Manhattan and New Jersey.
The original picture will be auctioned on eBay, with part of the proceeds donated to parents of U.S. soldiers wishing to supply their sons and daughters with body armor in Iraq (news - web sites).
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under fire from soldiers in Kuwait earlier this month who complained that they had to use scrap metal to armor their vehicles.
"Many of my friends are over in Iraq," Savido said in a statement.
The painting offers a likeness of Bush but the image is made up of monkeys swimming in a marsh. It was originally priced at $3,500 in the show's catalog.
Organizers expect more than 400,000 drivers to see the billboard each day for the next month.
>>> The original picture will be auctioned on eBay, with part of the proceeds donated to parents of U.S. soldiers wishing to supply their sons and daughters with body armor in Iraq (news - web sites).
How can this part be tracked? Does this mean they are donating some proceeds to the DOD?
That's a little tacky don't you think?
" I always thought all Americans were ignorant or conservative but I guess I was wrong."
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Amusing!!! but sad at the same time. The world is full of losers and societal parasites.
Bush has a message for Chris Savido:
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Bush just handing back a small portion of what the losers and scumbags in the world have dealt him.
There will be no 'outrage' unlike that directed at Howard Cosell and *not* directed at that racist fraud Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
Name one!!
Merry Christmas and Prayers for Our Troops
With "creator" Christopher Savido...
Well, imagine that.
The monkey beat the frog.
It's not a very impressive piece of art and it says more about the artist than it does about the President.
"That's a little tacky don't you think?"
No, I'm just a dull-witted piece of trailer trash with an underprivileged public school education. Maybe I just need to associate with high class intellectuals like you.
Unfortunately, poor hygiene has left my teeth in awful shape and someone as proper as you wouldn’t desire to be seen with the likes of me.
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Obviously the 'marsh' is supposed to be an "Iraq" quagmire and the monkey's are our military? It's just so edgy! So daring! He really "sticks it to the Man" well, if you're starting high school, that is.
No Friend. I'm just your average Joe.
Be nice! He wouldn't lie about such a high, would he? ;)
Exactly. This is no big deal. What would all us freepers think if some artist did a portrait of Clinton out of condom wrappers? We would think it hilarious and want it plastered on billboards too.
Reminds me of whoever it was that did the Clinton portrait earlier this year. I have no idea who the painter was but he was definitely third rate. It looked like something you'd find for sale at a thrift store.
The portrait, that is. Not the Clintons.
Well, okay......them too.
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