Check out this awesome painting of Obama setting fire to the Constitution:
Behold, "One Nation Under Socialism," a new masterpiece from America's Da Vinci, Jon McNaughton. (Previously best known for that one painting of Obama stepping on the constitution.) With it, McNaughton carries on in the tradition of some the 20th...
Somehow, though, I feel it’s missing something. It would have been improved if the artist had made Obama’s eyesockets hollow with blood streaming from them.
And if he put a dead fetus in his hand.
He might as well go full bore, right? I don’t think he quite gets the point across that Obama is evil.
Anyway, I love the image that the artist, Jon McNaughton, uses to promote the painting on his Web site, as if this were something you’d just hang up innocuously in your living room, like a still life of flowers.
http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/page/view_collection/Patriotic/421
Wheelz
March 22, 2012, 5:10pm
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Behold, “One Nation Under Socialism,” a new masterpiece from America’s Da Vinci, Jon McNaughton. (Previously best known for that one painting of Obama stepping on the constitution.) With it, McNaughton carries on in the tradition of some the 20th century’s finest figurative artists. Buy two — one for now, and one to trade when Nobama hands control of the country over to the Black Panthers.
I honestly cannot decide whether this is serious or mocking. The painting itself is too far into self-parody territory to be of any useful comparison…
That’s Poe’s Law in action. In this case, it might mean that McNaughton has two markets for his work: people who believe that the painting is a parody of crazy extremists, and the crazy extremists. The money spends the same regardless.
DianaG
March 22, 2012, 5:38pm
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Personally, I’m most offended at the degradation of the phrase “fine art”.
Kobal2
March 22, 2012, 5:48pm
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You know what this shit reminds me of, ironically ? The wave of “realist” art in Soviet Russia under Stalin, with allegories so subtle they might as well have been delivered with a sledgehammer.
It’s fascinating, really.
Revtim
March 22, 2012, 5:56pm
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joebuck20:
Anyway, I love the image that the artist, Jon McNaughton, uses to promote the painting on his Web site, as if this were something you’d just hang up innocuously in your living room, like a still life of flowers.
Hey, the first draft was probably Obama wiping his ass with the Bible, which really only works well on the bathroom wall.
Some of those mouseovers are pretty darned funny!
[thread=534965]We even did it before![/thread]
Here’s what one art critic had to say about it:
CBSDC contacted Jerry Saltz, an art critic for New York Magazine, about the painting.
When asked for an opinion, Saltz said that the painting contained “bad academic derivative realism,” calling it “typical propaganda art, drop-dead obvious in message” and “visually dead as a doornail.”
“It panders and preaches to the converted and tells them what they already believe,” Saltz told CBSDC.
Saltz said the painting could not be compared to WWII art.
“It has no graphic power of its own. It simply attempts to crawl into the body of that sort of illustration.”
When asked if removed a few years from Obama’s presidency could the work be then viewed as art, Saltz said the work is “inverted, with an American as an enemy — Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, whoever.”
“It’s much closer to the hate images produced in Germany pre-1939, in 1950s USA Red scare, in the USA around Jim Crow, etc.”
Hey, it’s Emperor Palpatine!
I like how he’s pointing at it, in case you didn’t notice it. “You see this here? This is the Constitution. I’m burning it. That’s why it’s on fire.”
The OP art is incomplete.
He is holding the constitution with his right hand, he should be flipping a big Fuck You finger with his left.
The lack of imagination in protest art is an example of why our kids ain’t learning.
One Nation Under a Groove .
ETA: OMFG … he’s not only derivative, he’s derivative of Thomas Kinkade
Hey, in the earlier painting Jesus had the Constitution…how did Obama get it away from him?
bup
March 22, 2012, 8:21pm
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Jesus has the proper long form constitution. Obama’s is a short-form hospital constitution.
Won it in a basketball game.
Stole it using an open-palm terrorist fist jab.
