You know things are bad when

the painting is more lifelike than the real thing...

REUTERS/Jim Young

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[Elspeth Ravenwind]

Move over "American Gothic", here's: "American Godawful"!

My eyes....!?!?!?!

Elspeth

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

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

[gyma]

Maw and Paw Kettle

[pansypoo]

BIG paintings of LITTLE people.

[amused]

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.

[HarpoSnarx]

Another Bushie White House innovation, dual portraits on velvet. Dignitude.

[Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog]

... and more vertical. Gotta love that perpetual boozy lean.

[JDM]

Who keeps paying for these fucking high end velvet "paintings"?

[cosmic tumbler]

In reality she sure looks like the Joker. On canvas she looks quite Victorian, especially in that blouse.

[zoe]

Now that's what I call a wide stance.

[queek]

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!

[TeddySanFran]

At least Laura's painter was true to the lack of foundation garment -- look at how low those bazooms hang!

[NOTeasy]

How realistic! Mr. Nice and Mz. Liebarian. I like the spiderweb on her window, wonder if she made it?

[moistenedbink]

Man! Look how high up on his arm she is grabbing fabric to keep him from falling over.

[billy b]

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

[virgotex]

Where are their feetz?

[punaise]

Laura Ashley meets Laura Bush.

[julia]

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.

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

Virgotex - as usual, they are "legless"! ;)
(in the brit meaning of the word - drunk)
Elspeth

[pursang]

The latest Bush portraits and wax statues were debuted today.

What, that's really them and not wax statues? Could have fooled me...

[kate]

"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.

[Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog]

Really, it looks like two sides of a triangle in search of the third, as dear old Joe once said.

[JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde]

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.

[EvilDrPuma]

Nothing in that photo is the "real thing." Nothing.

[frogspond]

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...