Saturday, March 22, 2014

George W. Bush art inspires on-target Arkansas satire.

There are no canvas limited edition giclee prints yet at the Kinkade Gallery in the mall near you, and if you want to view some of George W. Bush's actual original paintings you can, beginning in April, at the George W. Bush Presidential "Library" in Dallas, but according to something called the Rock City times, billed as "Arkansas' 2nd most unreliable news source" (as in the Arkansas version of The Onion, and second behind probably the Democrat-Gazette) you can also view a permanent collection of Bush's most famous works at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. That museum really does exist, thanks to an endowment by Alice Walton, Walmart heiress, but the rest of the story, well.. 

According to the dubious source, the paintings include several acclaimed portraits of Bush family pets, and many of Bush's renowned bathroom scenes, including "Self Reflection in Hard Water" and "My Ten Toes." The museum's curator summed up Bush as an artist rather definitively, however: "In a few short years, Mr. Bush has single-handedly redefined neo-postmodern contemporary pseudo-realism with his spiritless images of domestic mundaneness.  He deserves to be hung among the Warhol's and Rothko's of the art world."

Not bad for a failed politician.


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