You know things are bad when
the painting is more lifelike than the real thing...
REUTERS/Jim Young


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the painting is more lifelike than the real thing...
REUTERS/Jim Young
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Move over "American Gothic", here's: "American Godawful"!
My eyes....!?!?!?!
Elspeth
Posted by: Elspeth Ravenwind | December 19, 2008 at 02:24 PM
And unless the artist that painted chimpy is Jimmy Jeff, I want to know where to send a donation for the therapy sessions it will take him/her to recover from having to paint the royal crotch of the His Serene Frottage-ness???
Wow, the artist of Lauwa's image caught the Joker look in a slightly impressionistic way - but her sleeves (in the painting) are far too long... Notice the shadow in her pic, her 'dark days' are behind her and freedom awaits her once the presidential window is opened and she can get away from that fucktard...? Or not. ;)
Elspeth
Posted by: Elspeth Ravenwind | December 19, 2008 at 02:29 PM
Maw and Paw Kettle
Posted by: gyma | December 19, 2008 at 02:42 PM
BIG paintings of LITTLE people.
Posted by: pansypoo | December 19, 2008 at 02:46 PM
He opted for his own painting to be in the jacketless white shirt, with the sleeves partially rolled up? Still wanting to manage the PR that he's doin' hard work?
What an idiot.
Posted by: amused | December 19, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Another Bushie White House innovation, dual portraits on velvet. Dignitude.
Posted by: HarpoSnarx | December 19, 2008 at 03:23 PM
... and more vertical. Gotta love that perpetual boozy lean.
Posted by: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog | December 19, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Who keeps paying for these fucking high end velvet "paintings"?
Posted by: JDM | December 19, 2008 at 03:39 PM
In reality she sure looks like the Joker. On canvas she looks quite Victorian, especially in that blouse.
Posted by: cosmic tumbler | December 19, 2008 at 04:05 PM
Now that's what I call a wide stance.
Posted by: zoe | December 19, 2008 at 04:36 PM
L-Bot's portrait looks like the cover of some fucking trashy novel about some idle rich closeted southern belle and what's with that vase of daisies in Dubya's - that's not exactly Marlboro Man material! WTF!
Posted by: queek | December 19, 2008 at 05:26 PM
At least Laura's painter was true to the lack of foundation garment -- look at how low those bazooms hang!
Posted by: TeddySanFran | December 19, 2008 at 05:36 PM
How realistic! Mr. Nice and Mz. Liebarian. I like the spiderweb on her window, wonder if she made it?
Posted by: NOTeasy | December 19, 2008 at 06:20 PM
Man! Look how high up on his arm she is grabbing fabric to keep him from falling over.
Posted by: moistenedbink | December 19, 2008 at 07:34 PM
wt - the video loop of Bootsy ducking the shoe is too cool.
She's The Joker
She's a smoker
She's a covert doper
Pickles never sees the sun
Posted by: billy b | December 19, 2008 at 07:59 PM
Where are their feetz?
Posted by: virgotex | December 19, 2008 at 08:20 PM
Laura Ashley meets Laura Bush.
Posted by: punaise | December 19, 2008 at 08:42 PM
Interesting that in the pictures, both of them can focus their eyes.
Not as interesting as his choice of a pose that will ensure that generations of americans will turn the corner of a museum and find themselves looking straight into his ages-dead crotch.
Posted by: julia | December 19, 2008 at 08:42 PM
Virgotex - as usual, they are "legless"! ;)
(in the brit meaning of the word - drunk)
Elspeth
Posted by: Elspeth Ravenwind | December 19, 2008 at 08:52 PM
The latest Bush portraits and wax statues were debuted today.
What, that's really them and not wax statues? Could have fooled me...
Posted by: pursang | December 19, 2008 at 09:16 PM
"Lookit ma! The housekeeper and the gardener are playing the Bushes!"
"Heavens to Betsy! Get yourself upstairs in your room right now young man! Grover! Florence! That's enough of the shenanigans for one day! I've told you to keep out of the trunks of old clothes in the attic haven't I? That's not the kind of joke I need around here. Lord I'm going to have a coronary from the people in this damn house!"
"Wha-? What is that?! From what damn thrift store did you drag those paintings Louise? Jesus, put them down in the cellar, give them to the house-help, something just get the god awful things out of here!
That's the scenario I prefer thank you.
Posted by: kate | December 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Really, it looks like two sides of a triangle in search of the third, as dear old Joe once said.
Posted by: Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog | December 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM
How much more beautiful it would have been if instead of paintings on canvas, three dimensional sculptures of rectangles in the soil had been created, 6 feet long, 6 feet deep, three feet wide . . . and the subjects installed in them, supine, and then the rectangles MADE TO DISAPPEAR MAGICALLY BY ADDING SOIL TO THEM!!!..............
I love performance art.
Posted by: JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde | December 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Nothing in that photo is the "real thing." Nothing.
Posted by: EvilDrPuma | December 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM
two questions...
1. Usually the "first couple" are together in portraits aren’t they?
2. You know. The ugliness of his portrait has just shot the second question right out of my mind...
Posted by: frogspond | December 20, 2008 at 01:11 AM