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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Works By Tortured Artist/Torture Advocate - George W. Bush
while the world burns:Two new paintings by former president George W. Bush, published for the first time here on Gawker, give us a new window into the ongoing development of the tortured artist/torture advocateand opens the possibility for a new phase in his oeuvre: cats.
http://gawker.com/these-new-george-w-bush-paintings-may-herald-a-cat-pe-1209373403
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New Works By Tortured Artist/Torture Advocate - George W. Bush (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2013
OP
he he could paint well, adequate talent but not enough talent to stand out as a great.
dionysus
Aug 2013
#10
agent46
(1,262 posts)1. two dimensional
no perspective
Berlum
(7,044 posts)2. This is torture. Dude needs to go AWOL from the easel.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)3. What is it with war criminals and a hopeful painting career?
Though the guy with the moustache at least had a modicum of talent with the medium.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)4. I was just going to say that.
In a not so subtle way. Thank you for saying it better than I would have.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)6. scary
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)8. More than a modicum
I see a little bit of a Thomas Kinkade thing going on there...if you didn't know who painted this you might hang it on your wall. It is a pleasant enough piece.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)10. he he could paint well, adequate talent but not enough talent to stand out as a great.
Kinkade is a good analogy.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)11. And this one:
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)15. Which is a hell of a lot better than...
Link Speed
(650 posts)5. despite the lack of texture or depth that cat's markings...
are eerily akin to my Frankie.
But Frankie is one hell of a lot smarter than that painter.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)7. shitty painter, at least he's doing awful paintings and chugging bourbon at home instead of
running his mouth in public like his puppetmaster darth.
i'm trying to look on the bright side.
rurallib
(62,483 posts)9. "tortured" is such an ironic word for him.
maybe he can do ironic?
dionysus
(26,467 posts)12. he might have PTSD from the pretzel that almost choked him to death
rurallib
(62,483 posts)13. did the designer of that pretzel ever get an award?
dionysus
(26,467 posts)14. if only we knew the brand and type of pretzel....
was it the conventional pretzel twist? a large pretzel rod, or one of those pretzel nuggets they make now?
could Hannover have secretly tried to save us? or was Rold Gold the hero we'll never hear about?