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jOker: ‘Art is What You Can Get Away With’
Big Hollywood (Breitbart.com) ^
| Andrew Leigh
Posted on 08/06/2009 9:56:51 AM PDT by SloopJohnB
In 1987, Andres Serrano submerged a small plastic crucifix in a glass jar of his own urine and called it Piss Christ. Not to be outdone, Chris Ofili daubed elephant dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary.
While some narrow-minded philistines complained, the artistic establishment heaped praise (and money) on these and works like them. The National Endowment for the Arts was so impressed with Serranos work they granted him $15,000 courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. For his effort, Ofili was awarded the Turner Prize, Britains most prestigious art award...[snip]...
Shocking the middle classes is one thing. Shocking the art establishment is quite another. And when those sensibilities largely overlap, as they do in these early, halcyon days of the Obama administration, then woe betide anyone who dares to draw outside the lines set by the media-education-government complex.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; bho44; joker; jokerposter; obama; serrano
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To: SloopJohnB
I guess I am in trouble now, this is sure to be reported to the Whitehouse 'snitch' hotline!
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:00:30 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: SloopJohnB
How many presidents have been portrayed as comic book characters? This is just a standard form of political commentary — but the Left sure gets their panties in a bunch.
To: SloopJohnB
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:01:42 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: SloopJohnB
Interesting piece, interesting points. And of course he didn’t miss this opportunity to dump on Bush in passing.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:02:29 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: SloopJohnB
Post the Obama-as-Joker everywhere. It’s a great piece of guerilla warfare. It not only states Obama’s goal, but it also describes the disingenuous manner in which it is being implemented.
I still don’t know how to post photos - could someone please post a large version so we can print it out and put it on the local wall or telephone pole?
The left understands that this single poster is fabulous cutting satire. They don’t like it. Good. Put it up everywhere, in the middle of the night, in every town and every city. Consider it to be the 21st-century equivalent of the “Live Free or Die” poster.
Remember the lessons of Alinsky: Ridicule is impossible to defend against. Another lesson: Use the opponent’s tactics against them.
Post it everywhere.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:02:37 AM PDT
by
redpoll
To: SloopJohnB
To: ClearCase_guy
"How many presidents have been portrayed as comic book characters?" Presidents are fair game for cartoonists. Prophets, apparently, are not...
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:07:14 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: SloopJohnB
This image is intended to ridicule the President and his policies. Please report its use to federal authorities (flag@whitehouse.gov).
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:08:28 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
To: SloopJohnB
Here is my contribution to art....
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:09:51 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(The Brown Shirt Media © is coming!)
To: La Lydia
Interesting piece, interesting points. And of course he didnt miss this opportunity to dump on Bush in passing. Where? The point of the article is the Left relished in 'anti-Bush' art and now the chickens have come home to roost - they can dish it out, but not the other way around.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:14:16 AM PDT
by
SloopJohnB
(Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office.)
To: SloopJohnB
"They fear that Obamas opponents will succeed in reducing their icon to a laughingstock like Bush was (and is for now).
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:17:28 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: SloopJohnB
Liar! Liar! Pants on fire....Nose longer than a telephone wire....
To: ClearCase_guy
They linked an image done of Bush and quoted all the positive replys from the left about it being "artistic" and "right on". The left can't' argue that the Obama joker is any worse than what the left has done.
They are upset because the picture is powerful, and they know it. There aren't that many political cartoons/images that come along and "click", but the Obama joker does. Why I'm not sure, but when I first saw it I had a certain gut reaction.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:19:43 AM PDT
by
Brookhaven
(Obama hasn't just open Pandora's box, he has thrown us inside and closed the lid.)
To: SloopJohnB
I modified the original a little. I now have it set as wallpaper on my iPhone.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:20:30 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: unixfox
Worst president ever.
In the shortest amount of time as well.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:23:11 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: B-Chan
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:25:24 AM PDT
by
visualops
(portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
To: ClearCase_guy
Now that is funny right there.
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:26:20 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
To: unixfox
May I use that for my iPhone, please?
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:27:08 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
To: Salamander
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posted on
08/06/2009 10:50:38 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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