Can we at least get Sam Wilkinson to agree that THIS art is inherently s**ty?
A moment of levity for those needing a brief respite from the intellectual heft of the Inequality Symposium:
This Breibert homage masterpiece (priced at $4,000) is an absolutely great find from the blog Wonkette:
But as awesome as this visual is, the real find is in Wonkette guest-writer Doctor Zoom’s fantastic story on this “painting” (sold on the website Patriot Depot), and how it was discovered to be a violation of copyrighted material.
Just as entertaining is a quick browsing of the Patriot Depot website itself, which is a giant plate of conservative kitsch covered in awesome sauce. My favorites include the This Chick Is Packin’ 2012 Calendar and the DVD Drive Thru History, where a guy uses a magical monster truck to travel back in time and learn the true history of our country that Prius-driving liberals don’t want you to know about. But it’s all good.
(Biggest hat tip possible to Metrosexual Black AbeJ. Seriously, I cannot thank him enough for finding this.)
If anything, this violates my position in the opposite way: this is inherent artistic accomplishment that destroys my deeply treasured beliefs about art’s subjectivity out of the water.
*Reassesses Entire Life*Report
Since I don’t believe the artist’s intentions are dispositive to much, I’m perfectly willing to accept this as awesome stuff.Report
I think all of it is brilliant satire, actually, which is probably the highest form of art outside trance music.Report
Breathtaking. All of it.
[Too stunned to comment further.]Report
I find myself oddly aroused by the sexy chicks with guns. If only they were cutting taxes and firing union workers …Report
The left lost the concept of self-deprecating humor around 1975, and now scratches its head uncomprehendingly at Drive-Thru History or Larry the Cable Guy. It’s sort of A Canticle for Leibowitzthing.
Garrison Keillor still makes a Prius joke now and then, half-heartedly, his audience tittering in the same way because they know it’s supposed to be funny, although they’re not sure why. But they laugh just in case.Report
global warming is not a laughing matter.Report
U a funny guy, Mr. Carr.Report
It doesn’t take a liberal to scratch his or her head at Larry the Cable Guy’s inexplicable success.Report
It’s like a Tyler Perry thing. You wouldn’t understand.Report
I ought to be in Larry’s target demographic, or close to it. I love the other Blue Collar Comedy guys. Larry’s just obnoxious.Report
It was an example. I’ve never seen more than 30 seconds of him.Report
Fair enough. I’d recommend keeping it that way. I think you might get a kick out of Ron White, though.Report
Ron White is an American treasure.Report
I actually like Larry. Gross, but funny. I like Jeff acourse. I even like the drunk guy, tho it took a while to warm up to him. I think they’re all pretty damn funny.Report
Tom, every post you make doesn’t actually have to be hyper partisan. We get it, you will turn everything into a reason why liberals are bad. move on.Report
Greg, the OP was hyperpartisan. You’re so inured to such things you didn’t even realize.Report
Its always someone else isn’t it Tom. It’s never you. Gotcha.Report
You’re right, Tom. I didn’t realize the sight was gentle poking fun at itself.
For 4000 dollars. Conservatives REALLY love them some self-deprecating humor! Goodness, Colbert must make a fortune.
I mean, if they’ll pay 4 grand for a bad photoshop, what will they pay for performance art?Report
Tod, I can’t believe I’m about to come out as more red-state than you, but judging from the cover of that DVD, he uses a magical Jeep–that is certainly not a monster truck.Report
Now I wish they had Truckzilla. We could find out that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow had nothing to do with it.Report
I will prefer to think of it as a magical monster Jeep.Report
http://patriotdepot.com/product_images/uploaded_images/hollie-01.jpg
This one is actually a very good picture.Report