Worst painting ever (political)

[Vympel]

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This so-called 'fine' art is the very definition of 'a picture tells a thousand words'. It's just the most gaudy, tacky, wrong-headed fundy-fuck-tastic piece of shit I've ever seen. Click the link (you'll know it, trust me) and read the artist's notations for all the 'symbolism' on the painting.

[Duckie]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

[Vympel]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Mouse over the descriptions. The one for the Immigrant is particularly laughable.

[Johonebesus]

Luckily there are some fun parodies of it.

A cartoonist made his own annotations.

Someone made a Lovecraftian version:

[PeZook]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

What? Lincoln and Washington are on the left side, and he seems to worship both of them as much as any American does.

[His Divine Shadow]

Someone made a Lovecraftian version:

Damn you for beating me. This is also my wallpaper.

[Vympel]

What? Lincoln and Washington are on the left side, and he seems to worship both of them as much as any American does.

They're all behind Jebus though.

[wautd]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

What? Lincoln and Washington are on the left side, and he seems to worship both of them as much as any American does.

It's just the people down below who are divided into good and evil.

[Executor32]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

What? Lincoln and Washington are on the left side, and he seems to worship both of them as much as any American does.

This only applies to the generic people on the steps in front of him, not to the Real Historical People™ behind and next to him. Also, the immigrant looks Asian to me, but that might just be the gaudy light of the Lord deceiving my heathen eyes.

[UCBooties]

Some added hilarity, mouse over the sky for his comment on the stars and check which supreme court cases he thinks are worst.

[irishmick79]

wow, that is one horrendous political painting. That being said, some of his still scenery paintings are rather lovely.

[PeZook]

This only applies to the generic people on the steps in front of him, not to the Real Historical People™ behind and next to him. Also, the immigrant looks Asian to me, but that might just be the gaudy light of the Lord deceiving my heathen eyes.

Oh, yeah. Right.

I liked his description of "professor" the best. I wonder why idiots think American universities are in decline because of liberalism, anyway? You're still the leader in most hi-technology fields, so the evil liberal god-playing professors can't be bad academics

[Edi]

Check the College Student. Holding "The 5000 year Leap" by a certified cloud-cuckoo-fucknut who was disowned by even the rabidest conservative bigot organizations and was a total unknown until Glenn Beck brought his ravings into new prominence by incessantly promoting them.

The artists is a raving, frothing-at-the-mouth neocon fucknugget based on that alone.

[salm]

Haha, all the contradicions in the painting are really amusing. It´s almost as if the thing was painted by The Onion.

[PeZook]

Check the College Student. Holding "The 5000 year Leap" by a certified cloud-cuckoo-fucknut who was disowned by even the rabidest conservative bigot organizations and was a total unknown until Glenn Beck brought his ravings into new prominence by incessantly promoting them.

The artists is a raving, frothing-at-the-mouth neocon fucknugget based on that alone.

Holy crap! Man, the thread title is misleading. That painting is awesome! The artist managed to cram every single right-wing talking point into it!

What's the book about, anyway? Why is it so important in the mind of a self-righteous conservative moron?

[The Spartan]

That thing is so fucking stupid that it's physically painful to look at.

I'm not being hyperbolic; I mean that literally.

It also pisses me the hell off that Thomas Jefferson is on there. He was no saint, certainly, but I suspect he would shit bricks if he heard Dipshit's thoughts on America.

[Edi]

Salon.com has a series of articles on Glenn Beck, and also one on the author of that piece of drivel, Skousen. They are instructive. Links are in mikes "I hate Glenn Beck" blog post. Alternatively, search Salon.com for them.

[Vaporous]

I'm trying to figure out what Tom Paine is doing in this picture. This is a man who went to his grave friendless and alone because he was decried as a heretic for writing The Age of Reason, and now he's a symbol of American Theocracy? Come on.

[Crossroads Inc.]

I LOVE some of the descriptions, for instance while he may go on and on about some evil professor, or some solider who represents all that is good with america down to apple pie.. For President Lincoln, who is oddly kneeling, all he has is:
"16th President, Led America during Civil War, Assisanated"

Huh...

[Karza]

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

Yep, my first reaction (well, after "what the flying fuck?") was "why is Jesus wearing Gondor insignia?"

[Marcus Aurelius]

Let's just say that if I were in the admissions panel of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, I would send an invitation to this guy to study painting there; just to be on the safe side and not repeat past mistakes.

[Patrick Degan]

This only applies to the generic people on the steps in front of him, not to the Real Historical People™ behind and next to him. Also, the immigrant looks Asian to me, but that might just be the gaudy light of the Lord deceiving my heathen eyes.

Oh, yeah. Right.

I liked his description of "professor" the best. I wonder why idiots think American universities are in decline because of liberalism, anyway? You're still the leader in most hi-technology fields, so the evil liberal god-playing professors can't be bad academics

Becauze thur teaching dem EEEVUL LIBROOL IDEURZ...

[Rogue 9]

Dear god. Also, notice how he divides every single american into 'evil' and 'good' sides, on Jesus's left and right. Also that even the Good Immigrant is white. There's only a few marginal blacks in the painting, and hardly even that.

Also as an aside Jesus looks like the King of Gondor.

What? Lincoln and Washington are on the left side, and he seems to worship both of them as much as any American does.

It's just the people down below who are divided into good and evil.

So the pregnant woman is supposed to be evil?

[Darth Wong]

So the pregnant woman is supposed to be evil?

No, she's good. All of those people have annotations if you click on the picture and mouse around the detailed version.

Remember: fine art symbolizes things, but just in case people don't get it, the artist should include an instruction manual!

[Rogue 9]

So the pregnant woman is supposed to be evil?

No, she's good. All of those people have annotations if you click on the picture and mouse around the detailed version.

Yes, I know. Which is why I was questioning the idea that the left/right sides were intended as some sort of good/evil division.