# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/21 "2004-09-02T00:41:41Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > 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. I would love to do soemthing like that… Can’t paint for shit, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/22 "2004-09-02T00:57:04Z")
Heck, there’s an aesthetic precedent…[The Flag Bearer](http://www.goodart.org/nzhorse.jpg), by the immortal Hubie Lanzinger. – Ukulele “Godwin’s Law” Ike ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/23 "2004-09-02T01:03:08Z")
I can’t decide how it compares to [this previously pitted piece of shit](http://www.watsonswildlife.com/praying_for_peace_RD.htm). They’re hideous and disturbing in such completely different ways. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/24 "2004-09-02T01:04:45Z")
That is a horrid painting for its subject matter as well as the ‘art’ style. ---
**Author:** ![Chata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Chata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chata)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/25 "2004-09-02T01:10:45Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > I can’t decide how it compares to [this previously pitted piece of shit](http://www.watsonswildlife.com/praying_for_peace_RD.htm). They’re hideous and disturbing in such completely different ways. Ha! Particularly since it is rumored that [Lincoln AND Washington lacked faith!](http://www.stardestroyer.net/Creationism/Morality/HumanistCode.shtml) ---
**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, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/26 "2004-09-02T01:11:40Z")
The Hubie Lanzinger and DiCianni paintings differ greatly from the one in the OP. They are painted with a pretty good amount of technical skill, while the artist in the OP kind of . . . _sucks_. I mean, do corny propoganda artwork if you want to, but at least do it _well_. ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/27 "2004-09-02T02:40:09Z")
> [@](#): > > why the hell has he resorted to an artistically-repressed, politically-ignorant, religiously-insensitive piece to demonstrate his ‘patriotism’? Excuse me? Religiously-insensitive? Do you mean insensitive to Wahabbists? Have we sunk to this level of political correctness? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/28 "2004-09-02T04:20:06Z")
I hope the time he’s investing as a “creative patriot” doesn’t cut into his career at the instant airbrush t-shirt kiosk at the mall… Ike, your link depicts exactly the painting that popped into my head as soon as I saw this guy’s piece. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/29 "2004-09-02T04:39:52Z")
> [@yosemite](#): > > 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. He was reportedly turned down to an art institute because despite having a good deal of natural talent, he just couldn’t draw people. Imagine world history if he could have! ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/30 "2004-09-02T05:07:24Z")
I was all ready to get all mad at the OP for being an art snob about some silly piece of Kinkaidesque type illustration or something (no, I wouldn’t have them as art either, but to each his own, and that’s another rant). But DAMN, upon opening the link, that thing is just stupid looking. Nevermind about the over the top supposed patriotism (is that what it’s really suPPosed to be??). It would be like hanging a giant political cartoon in your house. DOrkEEEE!!! And bad taste. Ugh. ---
**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, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/31 "2004-09-02T06:45:54Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Heck, there’s an aesthetic precedent…[The Flag Bearer](http://www.goodart.org/nzhorse.jpg), by the immortal Hubie Lanzinger. > > – Ukulele “Godwin’s Law” Ike What am I ? Chopped liver ? I Godwinized 54 minutes before you, good sir! (And now I regret it. A link to a painting of Don Quijote on horseback would have been so much more - ehm - appropriate.) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/32 "2004-09-02T07:53:08Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > so why the hell has he resorted to an artistically-repressed, politically-ignorant, religiously-insensitive piece to demonstrate his ‘patriotism’? Follow the money. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/33 "2004-09-02T09:47:24Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > Excuse me? Religiously-insensitive? Do you mean insensitive to Wahabbists? > > Have we sunk to this level of political correctness? Just because it’s closely aligned to Bin Laden, it doesn’t invalidate its religious status. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/34 "2004-09-02T11:53:45Z")
> [@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) Wow. All it’s missing is an eagle flying above with a tear drop in its eye. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/35 "2004-09-02T12:12:00Z")
How is his head staying in the turban? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/36 "2004-09-02T12:23:10Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Is it possible the artist is being satirical Gotta be. _Nobody’s_ that tacky. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/37 "2004-09-02T12:47:08Z")
I need my ignorance fought here; on a page showing this artist’s work, [here](http://www.creativepatriot.net/artWork.asp) (each and every one a gem BTW), is one item I must know more about [here](http://www.creativepatriot.net/myImages/nunzios_pride.JPG) WTF is going on there? Is this some famous Amerian Hero-Hound that I as an igurant furr’ner should know more of? Is it’s tripodal condition due to having a limb chewed off by Commies, or did it beat a terrorist to death with it’s own leg (having nothing else to hand, as it were)? ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/38 "2004-09-02T12:54:30Z")
> [@](#): > > ‘I wanted to let the Republicans know there are some creative people in this city who are on their side,’ Well he sure is creative. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/39 "2004-09-02T13:22:54Z")
Oh good. I’ve been looking for a severed head painting for the dining room … ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Bubbington-Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@Lord\_Bubbington-Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Bubbington-Smythe)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668/40 "2004-09-02T13:27:27Z")
And the matching Osama/Saddam anvil pics would make a lovely coordinated addition to any home. I just wish I had the creativity this guy’s got ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-anyone-that-would-hang-this-painting-in-their-house/262668.md?page=3)