# I pit anyone that would hang this painting in their house. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668 "2004-09-01T22:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Chata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chata)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/1 "2004-09-01T22:59:02Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040831/480/nyr13708311642&e=16&ncid=1756](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040831/480/nyr13708311642&e=16&ncid=1756) ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/2 "2004-09-01T23:01:51Z")
Looks like a quarter of the Apocalypse, to me…and maybe someone should tell the artist that Bin Laden’s still at large… ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/3 "2004-09-01T23:03:01Z")
Scary enough, but I know tons of yahoos who’d die to have a copy of that vile print in their home. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/4 "2004-09-01T23:10:03Z")
Make em on black _and_ purple velvet! But have him ridin’ a white tiger on the purple one! ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/5 "2004-09-01T23:11:59Z")
That is so wrong on so many levels. Yuk. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/6 "2004-09-01T23:15:38Z")
The iconography (horse, flag, severed head) all seem rather unoriginal. How exactly is LoBaido a “creative” patriot? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/7 "2004-09-01T23:19:03Z")
> [@Chata](#): > > [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040831/480/nyr13708311642&e=16&ncid=1756](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040831/480/nyr13708311642&e=16&ncid=1756) What is it with [Dubya and Osama’s head](http://www.derfcity.com/n/newtoon.html) these days? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/8 "2004-09-01T23:21:24Z")
Why does Bush have blue hair? And why is he dressed like Lucius Malfoy? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/9 "2004-09-01T23:24:05Z")
Interestingly, the only other works of his I can find online are a Dali pastiche, and a site-specific item in Staten Island. He’s got the ability to create interesting pieces, so why the hell has he resorted to an artistically-repressed, politically-ignorant, religiously-insensitive piece to demonstrate his ‘patriotism’? ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/10 "2004-09-01T23:25:25Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > Make em on black _and_ purple velvet! But have him ridin’ a white tiger on the purple one! I’m envisioning him in a lavender leisure suit, shirt open \*allll \* the way down with a thick gold chain around his wiggly little neck. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/11 "2004-09-01T23:27:26Z")
Yay, another conservative artist! I thought I was the only one. But would I have that painting in my home? No way, hosey! ---
**Author:** ![Chata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Chata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chata)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/12 "2004-09-01T23:30:24Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > The iconography (horse, flag, severed head) all seem rather unoriginal. How exactly is LoBaido a “creative” patriot? He claims to not be taken seriously by other artists because they are mostly liberal. Maybe they don’t take him seriously because he sucks! Next thing you know he’ll be blaming Kerry, or Clinton, or that damn liberal media! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/13 "2004-09-01T23:45:51Z")
I hate to say this, what with Godwin’s Law and all that, but his skill and technique are eerily reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/14 "2004-09-02T00:02:35Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I hate to say this, what with Godwin’s Law and all that, but his skill and technique are eerily reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s. Not really - Hitler went in for watercolour landscapes. Many of them featured buildings drawn in a meticulous, straight-line draftsperson style, reflecting, according to Speer, Hitler’s early aspiration to be an architect. [Here are some examples.](http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/artist/Pfarrer/) ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/15 "2004-09-02T00:03:03Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > The iconography (horse, flag, severed head) all seem rather unoriginal. How exactly is LoBaido a “creative” patriot? Well, seems he has studied [the classics](http://www.terra.es/personal2/miguel7-c/Contenidos/Historia/NAZIS/imageD71.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/16 "2004-09-02T00:09:39Z")
Damn - that link was taken via Google, and is actually a link to the website of notorious Holocaust-denier, David Irving. In no way do I support him or his bullshit theories. Sorry about that, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/17 "2004-09-02T00:14:10Z")
Is it possible the artist is being satirical, both in his painting and his statements? If so, he’s probably whooshing a lot of folks. If not, it’s awefully trite propaganda. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/18 "2004-09-02T00:15:54Z")
I think there’s a movie in here, somewhere. Is it just me, or does it look like GWB, the Supreme Court justice? It is one ugly painting, although it might be kind of cool with a black light effect or in 3D. Could sell a bunch of copies at Spencer’s. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/19 "2004-09-02T00:16:53Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I hate to say this, what with Godwin’s Law and all that, but his skill and technique are eerily reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s. I agree—it is reminiscent in its mediocrity. Hitler did do some portrait work, and it was obvious that he just didn’t have a feel for it. Portrait work is generally considered far more difficult than landscapes or buildings so I think he tended to stick with those subjects. Just so it’s clear—I don’t particularly have a problem with the notion of Bin Laden’s head being slung around by whoever. I just don’t want to see a cheesy painting depicting it. Now, perhaps I’m being unfair in declairing that this guy is a bad artist. Perhaps some of his other work is better. But I’m just not seeing much in this one. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/20 "2004-09-02T00:22:12Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > it’s awefully trite propaganda. It’s Pubbie Porn. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668.md?page=2)