Paul Bremer's new career: "Vermont Artiste" . . .get them while they're hot!

[Bluebear]

Aren't they magnificent? If you didn't know it, you would think these were photographs of the Vermont countryside! :crazy:


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My paintings focus on landscapes, particularly scenes of Vermont. My works are in private collections in New England, the New York and Washington areas and the West Coast. You may see some of my paintings at the galleries here. I hope you enjoy them. If you would like to inquire about buying a painting or commissioning a work, please contact me at: [e-mail]

[EFerrari]

1. I guess he couldn't take the Abu Ghraib abuses that the ICRC told him about

in 2003 as his subject. Not pastoral enough.

[Bluebear]

2. He hasn't studied how to paint naked human pyramids yet. nt

[EFerrari]

6. This stuff is the graphic equivalent of the "such a quiet neighbor"

who stalks and eats the neighborhood pets in the privacy of his kitchen.

[Octafish]

50. This guy did.

Fernando Botero has captured what Mr. Bremer missed.

[Octafish]

51. Oops. Here it is.

Fernando Botero doesn't like what he had to paint.



He did it for history's sake.

[countingbluecars]

3. That last one really

shows his artistic ability. Is that a babbling brook?

[Bluebear]

4. It is. I can almost hear the water trickling from the mountaintop.

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. It looks a little like Blue Meanie vomit

from my perspective. lol

[AlCzervik]

12. Vermont Cheeses!!

that's going to be my new phrase, cya later "Hoover Dam!" and hellllloooo "Vermont Cheeses!!"

[Hannah Bell]

7. "in private collections"? omg. the equivalent of our local artists who get their work shown

at the public library.

only some of our blue-haired ladies paint much better.

isn't he embarrassed to put such stuff up & charge for it?

[EFerrari]

9. I don't think it's bad. But it is gross. n/t

[Hannah Bell]

16. i think it's bad & gross. :>)

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. They would not be out of place in a junior high art exhibit.

The "private collections" HAVE to be family members.

I know quite a few TALENTED artists and go to many exhibits. These would never even make it into any juried show.

Although, I DO think they would be gladly accepted by:

http://www.museumofbadart.org/index.php

[gratuitous]

10. He spelled "Jesus" wrong in the second one

But other than that, work that I would find startlingly amateurish for a third grader.

[AlCzervik]

11. hmm, i guess art really is subjective. Paul Bremer-Painter of Fright!

i know this is small but am i the only one laughing?

[ellenfl]

13. private collections? whose, his mother's? eom

[AlCzervik]

14. Stop.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bluebear]

37. Adoring neocans. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

15. These look like children's paintings. Or, a beginner's. n/t

[EFerrari]

20. I searched "trite" and got:

http://www.bremerenterprises.com/

[ColbertWatcher]

55. I feel a google bomb coming on! n/t

[Sal Minella]

17. This can't be THE Paul Bremer (of 100 Blows Upon Iraqis) certainly???

[Bluebear]

38. Oh, it is.

[ColbertWatcher]

18. BTW: are there only three of them? Can you post a link to the "collection"? n/t

[AlCzervik]

19. oh yes, enjoy!

http://www.bremerenterprises.com/id66.html

don't be drinking anythng ok?

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Bremer Enterprises!? I wonder what other businesses he'll be venturing into!? n/t

[AlCzervik]

24. Vermont Cheeses!!

:rofl:

[ColbertWatcher]

26. I've never seen Vermont look so ugly.

This is a great find! Thank you.

[AlCzervik]

29. Bluebear found it somewhere and then i couldn't stop myself from wanting

to see more.

I know it's wrong to laugh but i cannot help myself.

[ColbertWatcher]

32. How is it wrong to laugh? It reminds me of that one episode of The Simpsons ...

... with Frank Grimes, who tricked Homer into competing in a children's design competition.

Remember that one?

And all Homer did was copy the existing plant, with added "racing stripe."

Here's a link: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F19

and a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEr5I5d_EKw

[originalpckelly]

47. This is actually kind of pathetic. I feel bad for him.

Art is such a personal thing and get criticized, it's like getting naked and having people rip you to shreds based on your looks. But art is an expression of the looks that matter: what one's soul looks like.

[cali]

21. AAARGH

This is bad for Vermont tourism and terrible for Vermont artists. Go away Paul. Stay in New Canaan and don't sully our fair state anymore.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

23. This one isn't bad.

[cali]

25. um, well, that's a matter of opinion.

[EFerrari]

27. If I were him, I might try to focus on the most virginal landscape

I could imagine, too.

[ColbertWatcher]

28. That doesn't look like one of his. n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

30. You're right. Style different and different signature. nt.

[Nay]

31. That's a completely different style. That can't be his.

[originalpckelly]

46. Perhaps if he is just a novice he hasn't settled on a style...

but it's pretty obvious in the other paintings that he has sense of depth/perspective. He also seems very unskilled in the creation of hard lines.

[EFerrari]

34. This one was more honest.

[lunatica]

33. Another Fail

A runaway wagon (looks like it's rolling down hill)
A busted truck, or is it supposed to be a semi-truck cab?
A tree behind a rock wall that looks like a pile of coal or a really big boa constrictor.

FAIL. Can't this guy do anything right?

Maybe Bush will hang them in his lyberry

[Vinca]

35. I'd say he should keep his day job, but he sucked at that, too.

Most likely his works are in private collections because he gifts them to people. Everytime they hear Paul is making a visit they pull them out of the closet and hang them.

[Sal Minella]

39. Maybe if we buy his paintings as fast as he produces them, we can keep him out of

international relations??? Doing our bit for world peace.

Monsanto (with the patented seeds, now mandated in Iraq by one of the Bremer orders) should have Bremer on a lifetime income, so I doubt he needs to sell any paintings.

I've read just enough about the Bremer orders to be incredulous that the man (in one year) could visit such long-term horrors on that country.

[frylock]

36. positively enchanting

[SoCalDem]

40. Paintings By Paul.. the inspiration

Click

[Lorien]

44. Oh, he only WISHES that he could paint this well:

Seriously; I know 12 year olds who can do far better work than what's in the OP!

[lutefisk]

41. 1. "Casket Wagon" 2. "Cheese Truck IED" 3. "Mass Grave Under Bone Tree"

He can't paint his way out of his guilt.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

42. It would be cool if he hid little "wmd" initials throughout his paintings. Like Hirschfeld's "Nina"s

It's all about marketing, n'est pas?

[Bluebear]

43. Oui...

and love the Nina reference :)

[originalpckelly]

45. The last one isn't bad, but the first two show the lakc of ability to draw circles...

that's assuming he did a pencil sketch underneath.

Nature is very flowing in it's lines, and the organic lines of his painting method are more suited to the last. Even in the first two, the natural elements look far more presentable than the representations of machined lines.

He also has a problem with perspective/depth too, which makes sense considering his career was lacking in perspective as well.

[UTUSN]

48. BWAH- ha- HAH!1 Maybe CHALABI wants to buy them!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

49. Let's KICK it up for VISIBILITY!1 n/t

[Javaman]

52. Please tell me this is the onion. please? nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

53. Extremely amateurish.

In the first one, you can see one of the main signs of bad painting:

Using paint straight out of the tube, without mixing it with any other color. That fence and foliage is probably Cobalt Blue out of the tube.

There are plenty of other reasons why these are terrible. Bad drawing, bad perspective, etc.

[ColbertWatcher]

57. LOL!

Grass is green, sky is blue!

Look at me, ma! I'm an artist!

[Stevenmarc]

54. He's good, you can't see the numbers

[Enrique]

56. a true rennaisance man

[SalmonChantedEvening]

58. Wow. Bet he drew Blinky the Elf with his fingers too. n/t

[Solly Mack]

59. Unreal

and yet all too real

[SemiCharmedQuark]

60. VERMONT CHEESES!

:rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

61. Does he have any really good ones? Like maybe a classic Hand-Turkey?

[bmbmd]

62. I want the third one

to put on my refrigerator with a magnet.