Jesus, eye bleach alert. Seeing to human clusterfucks that have foisted a 1/5th hijacking of our economy onto the American public is enough to make someone become enraged.
I don't know. I don't believe in what the Nazis called "degenerate art". I just don't know if I trust artists who dabble in politics.
Political cartoonists, that's a different story, though. Berke Breathed was pretty good. The feel of the Doonesbury characters, too, even if I didn't enjoy Trudeau's stuff and he was a little too left-wing for me. Although, I did enjoy a strip he did once comparing Geraldo Rivera to a Roman soldier at the Coliseum.
I suppose I wouldn't mind a right-wingers political cartoons, either. But these are just too gif-fy and taking off the animated trend. I need something more cartoon-y if it's going to be this political. Then I'd get it.
I'll delete these posts, Chip. I really didn't want to offend and think creativity is a good thing, definitely worthy of encouragement. You're a talented artist and I'm sorry if I didn't understand where you're going with these series.
R&B said: I think your art skills are fine, I'm just trying to understand the idea of mixing this sort of genre with obsessively political themes this way. No meanness intended.
You deliberately implied that Chip's work was Bush league at 12:30 AM.
Harry Reid does look a little like the grim farmer in the original painting. Nancy Pelosi not so much. Sadly farm wives of that era could not afford face lifts or even Botox injections.
If by Bush league, you mean untalented, no that's not what I meant. You do understand the difference between connecting with a particular work or series of works and appreciating the fact that you know the artist is generally quite talented, no?
This one caused me to laugh out loud before the squirrel popped up. With the gloved hand pushing the infamous head back out of the famous picture as another plus.
Animated. Pop-up. Art.
A three pronged, pitch perfect approach to subject matter others refuse to touch!
William said... Harry Reid does look a little like the grim farmer in the original painting. Nancy Pelosi not so much. Sadly farm wives of that era could not afford face lifts or even Botox injections.
That's a profound observation of how women evolve and men stay the same.
You know, upon further reflection, I will say that he chose good head shots of Pelosi and Reid to fit into the way the works' bodies are posed. To have her craning her neck upward like that fits the composition, as does the effect he's trying to get on Reid's downward-looking scowl - perfect for the gentleman with the pitchfork in American Gothic. So I do see how the face portraits, out of so many in the public domain that could have been chosen, were just about perfect for the effect of the characters in the original work.
Good one, Chip. I think Ritmo's reaction is a prime example of how one political side fails to see the humor of the other. It's obviously not about intelligence, but world view.
Sure ric. I forgot how high the market value of conservative comedians is. There are so many of them. They have a veritable empire cornering the market for entertaining humor. Must be the government that makes it that way.
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Yikes!
Garage Mahal? Is that you?
Jesus, eye bleach alert. Seeing to human clusterfucks that have foisted a 1/5th hijacking of our economy onto the American public is enough to make someone become enraged.
Quick! Name three ways Harry Reid is similar to Don Draper.
@Ritmo: are you calling Chip's work entartete Kunst?
I don't know. I don't believe in what the Nazis called "degenerate art". I just don't know if I trust artists who dabble in politics.
Political cartoonists, that's a different story, though. Berke Breathed was pretty good. The feel of the Doonesbury characters, too, even if I didn't enjoy Trudeau's stuff and he was a little too left-wing for me. Although, I did enjoy a strip he did once comparing Geraldo Rivera to a Roman soldier at the Coliseum.
I suppose I wouldn't mind a right-wingers political cartoons, either. But these are just too gif-fy and taking off the animated trend. I need something more cartoon-y if it's going to be this political. Then I'd get it.
More storyboards, too.
Squirrel!
Literally.
Then make them or shut up.
I'll delete these posts, Chip. I really didn't want to offend and think creativity is a good thing, definitely worthy of encouragement. You're a talented artist and I'm sorry if I didn't understand where you're going with these series.
R&B said: I think your art skills are fine, I'm just trying to understand the idea of mixing this sort of genre with obsessively political themes this way. No meanness intended.
You deliberately implied that Chip's work was Bush league at 12:30 AM.
Harry Reid does look a little like the grim farmer in the original painting. Nancy Pelosi not so much. Sadly farm wives of that era could not afford face lifts or even Botox injections.
If by Bush league, you mean untalented, no that's not what I meant. You do understand the difference between connecting with a particular work or series of works and appreciating the fact that you know the artist is generally quite talented, no?
This one caused me to laugh out loud before the squirrel popped up. With the gloved hand pushing the infamous head back out of the famous picture as another plus.
Animated. Pop-up. Art.
A three pronged, pitch perfect approach to subject matter others refuse to touch!
William said...
Harry Reid does look a little like the grim farmer in the original painting. Nancy Pelosi not so much. Sadly farm wives of that era could not afford face lifts or even Botox injections.
That's a profound observation of how women evolve and men stay the same.
You know, upon further reflection, I will say that he chose good head shots of Pelosi and Reid to fit into the way the works' bodies are posed. To have her craning her neck upward like that fits the composition, as does the effect he's trying to get on Reid's downward-looking scowl - perfect for the gentleman with the pitchfork in American Gothic. So I do see how the face portraits, out of so many in the public domain that could have been chosen, were just about perfect for the effect of the characters in the original work.
Good one, Chip.
You capture the zeitgeist perfectly
The Don Draper question has got me stumped.
No. Wait a minute: (1) carbon-based life forms; (2) bipedal; and (3) shit, Don Draper isn't a carbon-based life form, he's just a fictional character.
I suck.
Good one, Chip. I think Ritmo's reaction is a prime example of how one political side fails to see the humor of the other. It's obviously not about intelligence, but world view.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
In the ideal Montana Urban Schmendrik world Chip would first have to submit his work to the Department of the Humor Impaired.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
The Hegel you say!
Oh, me, I'd forgotten it was Hegel. If pressed I would have guessed Marx.
Sure ric. I forgot how high the market value of conservative comedians is. There are so many of them. They have a veritable empire cornering the market for entertaining humor. Must be the government that makes it that way.
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