Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Analzying Art: A Bush View

The 43rd president has managed to do it again! Shocking America must be what he was born to do. After an 8-year term  I thought everyone had just about had enough of George Bush. However, a hacker, whose name has yet to be revealed, thought otherwise. Upon hacking into the personal emails of Bush's sister, the hacker found a lot of interesting things. But the most amazing find was Bush's "artwork."

These "bathroom painting"s are as awkward as it gets. These paintings feature awkwardly shaped body parts and one-dimensional objects. The painting of Bush in the shower makes you wonder how exactly he was able to paint the back of his body. The paintings almost look like he's painting them while standing in the shower and sitting in the bathtub, which wouldn't surprise me at all.

 These next batch of paintings show a slight improvement in Bush's technique, but the objects painted are still simple and they are still very one-dimesional. Apart from the one use of shadow in the painting of the grapes, all of these paintings lack depth.
A mix of landscapes, still lifes, and animal portraits (a subject he returns to time and again) these paintings show a burgeoning, sensitive artist stretching his painterly muscle—toying with perspective, experimenting with color, and giving his work symbolic and thematic heft.[1]
I'm not sure if this critic was joking or not because I don't see any perspective or symbolism in these paintings. The painting of the dog sitting outside of the White House gates doesn't have a deeper meaning and if it's portrayed that way I highly doubt Bush intentionally did it. These paintings show a person who is simple and takes things at face value.There is no depth, no symbolism, no real meanings.




[1]  http://gawker.com/5991732/a-watermelon-a-golf-course-a-horse-and-monstrous-dogs-12-new-paintings-from-george-w-bush





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