Posted on 06/20/2011 8:26:04 PM PDT by Steelfish
Never heard of him.
His portrait of Barack Obama brought in $20,000 bucks.
Not enough to pay his bail of $250,000.
They must have a good reason to set bail so high...like videos.
No, he is either innocent or guilty. However, our criminal justice system presumes his innocence until he is proven guilty. He enjoys no such presumption on this forum.
THAT is a urinal.
Why no mention of a wife or the children’s mother?
Good point.
Artist accused of molestation, child porn
"He's an artist, so I know from the photography world, that one person's art is maybe another person's pornography."
Neighbors said Rusconi had the little girls with a surrogate.
(I wonder if there's more than one Daddy?)
Rusconi was accused of selling forged artwork in 2009 to actress Claire Forlani. Sheriff's officials said the investigation is ongoing. The District Attorney's Office has yet to file charges.
We need to keep in mind that anybody can accuse anybody else of anything. Convicting them is another thing entirely........
To those who feel he is guilty. It doesn’t say who accused him. If it was the Child Protective Services with a anonymous tip would you feel the same.
See post #27.
Well I guess the usual libtards like Whoopie will chime that is was not “Rape, rape.” /s
Paul Rusconi (born 1965, California)[1] is an American contemporary artist who began as a Post-War and contemporary art dealer based in Los Angeles.
[edit] Life and work
Paul Rusconi was born in California. He studied at Pepperdine University, and is now a contemporary artist living and working in Los Angeles.
Born and raised in California, Los Angeles based artist Paul Rusconi investigates the portrait with his own photo-based images as well as found or sourced images from popular culture. His work is a digital screening process often combined with nail polish, oil paint, engine enamel and monochromatic photography. The work is layered and framed. The shadow image on the monochromatic photographic is a simple projection through the Plexiglas. There is no image on the actual photograph until one is projected on it by the digital screen. His own photography is used for images that create a grey scale from blue, magenta, yellow and black. Up close all that is evident are colorful dots - and from about 12 feet away - those dots turn into a grey scale or what looks to be a black and white image. This notion came from the observation that a grey-scale could be created from color and therefore such a grey-scale could be broken down into color. The subjects have included artists, musicians, politicians and currently with his fascination of pop-culture and its huge and wide-reaching skate sub-culture Rusconi focuses his current group of portraits on today’s 14 most influential skateboarders in the world.
Untitled (No Way Out) features an image of Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes from a magazine cover. The solid background reflects the shadow of the silkscreen.[2] Untitled (Tyra) is a contemporary glamour portrait featuring a vignette of model Tyra Banks.
Works by Rusconi are included in the collections of numerous private homes and public art institutions, including The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Interface Foundation, the Castilla Foundation, Madrid and the Carnegie Art Museum, Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, March 8, 2008 – May 18, 2008.
With twins, this is a case of not being rape, rape, rape, rape.
And this is a US Department of State website where this renowned artist is featured.
Yes.....I supposed you are correct. ;-)
Jokes, aside, tho.........this guy should HANG......and NOT from his neck.
All I can say is, I hope they chuck him in a cell with a bunch of “boyfriends” and guards whose eyesight suddenly goes bad for a few hours.
They’ll just need a coffee can, a trowel, and some wet wipes to clean up the next morning.
Sounds like the usual crud that passes for art nowadays.
I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. I like the art produced by the old masters. The oil paintings and statues. Of naked ladies.
; )
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