Painting Censored of Shrub Sodomized by Saudi Royal over Oil Barrel

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Unfortunately, due to restrictions on free speech in ShrubWorld, the painting in question, Yahoo!, was not to be found for exhibiting here.



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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ccontroversy27may27,0,2719699,print.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

Broward pressures Art Guild to remove graphic painting of Bush from 'Controversy' exhibit
An explicit art piece at the private, nonprofit Broward Art Guild was removed from its prominent position in the gallery after the agency's director received a phone call from the county's Department of Cultural Affairs, which partially funds the group. ....

The piece in question is a painting depicting President Bush being sodomized. Artist Alfred Phillips said images of an oil barrel and a man wearing a Muslim headdress in the work are part of a political statement about the United States being abused by oil companies. ....

The exhibit's organizers accepted the Bush painting into the show, saying there was a relevant political message, Buzzi said. The show includes about 45 pieces of art that generally make some kind of social or political statement. Another piece depicts Bush dressed as the Statue of Liberty and holding a tablet with a swastika on it. Yet another piece shows two American soldiers carrying a dead body into a car. ....

Broward County Vice Mayor Ben Graber said that as long as the art show placed disclaimers about the exhibit's content, that county officials had no place making that phone call. ....

Phillips said he's not an activist and rarely conjures up such political art. But he wanted to use this exhibit to express some of his views. ....



http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2005-05-26/calendar/seen.html

.... Alfred Phillips' Yahoo! depicts the president bent over an oil barrel with a Saudi royal pumping him full of, um, you know. Other humorous jabs at Bush include Gerard Delaney's Liberty or Death? (shown left). But Dubya's not the only one on trial here; the icons of the fast-food industry are parodied in Brass' False Idols, a series of portraits (Ronald, Wendy, Colonel Sanders, and Burger King) flanked by religious imagery. It's about time someone supersized communion wafers. "Controversy" runs through June 10 at the Broward Art Guild (530 NE 13th St., Fort Lauderdale). Call 954-523-4824, or visit www.browardartguild.org. -- Jason Budjinski

http://www.razoogallery.com/gallerierazoo.html

Outsider, intuitive & select art ....
Best in show Alfred Phillips ....

http://www.razoogallery.com/razoophillips.html

Alfred Phillips

Since taking up fine art painting only a few years ago, Alfred Phillips has received more art prizes and accolades than most accrue over a lifetime. The artist won ten awards in one year alone, including a People Choice award in the annual "United & Proud" juried exhibit for which he is particularly pleased. Phillips also snagged first place in the annual Broward Starving Artists Exhibit in 2004. In the Broward Art Guild's 58 years of existence, no artist had won both first place and second place prizes in the same show until he took honors in landscape and still life categories last year. ....

"I would draw and paint regardless of the response to my work, because I have to," he says. "It's part of me and what I have always done. It is very gratifying to win awards, however."

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[lady lib]

1. Bush's house of cards is so fragile

that it's threatened by paint. The administration is full of pathetic, frightened, and incompetent little men.

[cornfedyank]

2. should have shown shrub holding opec's coat.

while they screwed liberty.

on edit: don't forget we let them put us over that oil barrel.

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3. Some Further Art-related Items

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It seems that a sculptor/painter, Richard SERRA, copied from Spaniard Francisco GOYA, substituting Shrub's face. GOYA's painting, "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons" was aimed at the repressive Spanish monarchy. Well, Robert NOVAK had a FIT on CNN Friday and again on Saturday.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/saturnmyth.html

.... In the Greek version, Kronos (Saturn) also became pregnant, but by swallowing his own children as fast as they were born, having been warned that he would be dethroned by one of them just as he had supplanted his own father. His wife, Rhea, somewhat distressed by the loss of the first five, substituted a stone for the next, the storm god Zeus, who was then raised in secret. After liberating his brothers and sisters, Zeus led their rebellion - as they had been reborn, he was now the eldest - and so became king of the gods. ....

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm
DEMON ART

A SHOCKING image of a blood-spattered President Bush devouring a headless child is causing an uproar. The drawing by sculptor Richard Serra, based on a painting by Goya, is being used to promote pleasevote.com, billed as "a call to vote the Bush administration out of office." It appears on the back cover of The Nation's July 5 issue. Ironically, Serra, a past recipient of NEA grants, was once praised by First Lady Laura Bush in a White House press release about one of his pieces at a Texas museum. His "Tilted Arc" once graced (or defaced) Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan until it was destroyed in 1989. Pundit Andrew Sullivan labeled the Bush image "an obscenity" and "simple demonization."

http://www.netserves.com/moca/lectures/boogoya.htm
.... Goya was a lifelong rebel. ....

Goya's observation of the world led him to believe that the eighteenth century philosophers' dream of Reason only produced monsters. ....

...The horrors of war became his subject, and his paintings and etchings exhibited the atrocities that men visit upon one another in the name of "God and Country." The Third of May, 1808 (below) is Goya's response to the slaughter of 5,000 Spanish civilians who were executed in reprisal for a revolt against the French army without regard to whether they were guilty or innocent. Until Goya, warfare was generally painted as a glorified pageant of heros. ....
GOYA's Third of May 1808:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003...

.... The president, the painter, and porn: actor-painter Jeff Griggs presented a portrait to President Bush in the White House. Then the tabloids discovered his gay-porn past - People - Interview

The invitation was for Griggs to present the 9/11-themed George W. Bush portrait he had painted, which a friend of a friend had recommended to the White House. So he bought airline tickets for himself and his mom, checked his painting with the baggage, and went to meet the commander in chief.

Months later, the tabloids discovered that Griggs, a former Days of Our Lives cast member, had also done all-male adult films in the late 1980s. GAY PORN STAR PAINTS THE PRESIDENT INTO A CORNER, the headline shouted. The stow faded again until April of this year--when a gay gossip Web site and the New York Post dredged it up again. ....

Always a proud supporter of the president, Griggs says his conviction was strengthened by their meeting. "As we stood there and looked at my painting, as we were reminded of the loss," he says, "I was convinced that he was completely aware of his own humanity and of his failings. But I was also aware that--damn it--he was the president of the United States and he was going to do his damnedest to see that this never happens to our country again." (Griggs can't say where the painting is now, but he's been told its final destination is likely Bush's presidential library.)

Griggs, who's gay and "not single," speaks with admiration of Bush's international AIDS initiative but doesn't feel the need to debate the Administration's policies point by point. "Bottom line is this: I'm sold on the man. Period. He's for us. It's hard not to like the guy."

As for whether Griggs's past "bad choices" really painted the president into a corner, his D.C. contacts tell him that "the White House isn't one bit concerned," he says. "Maybe I needed to have that experience to keep me humble and to remind me that I'm not that far from falling," he says of the gossip eruptions. "It reminds me how fortunate I am to be able to paint and have great friends and family. I am a blessed man."



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6. Digging Back Further - Painting by RUBENS

[Richard Steele]

4. The original complaint sounds like BS from an art-show competitor.

Quote:
" Michael Friedman, the artist who complained to the county, said the painting is offensive and tasteless.

"Something snapped inside," he said. Friedman himself entered a piece depicting Pope Benedict XVI with several swastikas in the background."

[LuPeRcALiO]

5. caption: "Thanks, Faisal, just put it on the credit card"

being president is hard work!

[whistle]

7. Great, maybe he can bring it along with other Bush paintings....

....to the Winter Park Florida Art Festival next winter.

[rock]

8. Too bad

Then he could've had a follow up with bush sucking the guy off.

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10. Why-oh-why Would I Do That at a Place Named "DU"? n/t

[Deja Q]

11. How is representing the truth controversial?

America has been eating its young for years. Mostly tasty nibbles but we're about to be devoured and turned into feces.