George W. Bush’s Original Paintings Are Making Their Disney Theme Park Debut
George W. Bush’s Original Paintings Are Making Their Disney Theme Park Debut
Former United States president George W. Bush will soon have his original paintings displayed at Disney's EPCOT.
Carter built houses for 4 decades after his presidency mismanaged the Iran hostages, energy crisis, and 70s inflation (though I’m not sure he deserves credit for the last one).
Bush is
eatingplaying with paint and hiding from his mismanagement of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent unrelated war he started.his presidency mismanaged the Iran hostages
That was mainly the Reagan campaign paying the terrorists to hold the hostages until Reagan could take credit.
(though I’m not sure he deserves credit for the last one)
He doesn't deserve the blame for either of them. He's one of if not THE most slandered US president in history.
It's an interesting way to manage the guilt of sending so many men and women to their deaths for nothing.
It wasn't for nothing, it was to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars to defense companies and their shareholders.
And avenge daddy
Such a noble cause. Shareholders were ignored for too long!
I doubt he is capable of feeling guilt.
Dubya did a reverse Hitler:
He committed countless war crimes and other atrocities, the effects of which will be painfully felt by hundreds of millions of people for the rest of their lives. Then he started painting.
He's actually a very good painter.
Too bad he didn't pursue an art career and opted to destroy the world instead. Having been born independently wealthy, he could have made it in the art world easily.
This reminds me of someone else who didnt get to pursue a career in arts and instead tried to destroy the world.
Yet another I wish stuck to art instead of going into politics!
I remember seeing that that’s what he’s doing now and this is like… the saddest example of injustice
Kissinger.
Okay you got me there
George W. Bush Institute, will be featured as part of Disney’s enduring admiration for those who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces and veterans
Damn America goes hard on propaganda.
I see he isn’t dead yet.
Ngl. That picture looks more like a guy trying his best not to look like he doesn't know what he's doing, than a seasoned painter mixing his oils.
It's like this is your first time seeing a picture of the man. I'm not sure that he's ever appeared to know wtf he was doing in any situation. Every picture of him could have a speech bubble saying "I just got here. What's going on?"
What happened to separating art from the artist?
Le Demoiselle de Avignon may be a revolting exploitation and sexist display by a renowned, womanizing misogynist, but it’s also a fantastic example of form, style, cubism, an illustration of the shift from art nouveau to art deco, and, frankly, a celebration of the female form. I’ve even heard it argued that it empowers sex workers, although I’ve also heard some fierce debate about that.
My point is that, when exercising the nuanced discretion of “separating the art from the artist”, the “art” in question should, at least, be of sufficient redeeming value to consider overriding the distaste for the artist in order to consider the value of the art, especially when considering the overall contributions to art (on the general sense) made by the artist in question (nobody reasonable would dare question Picasso’s contributions to the art world, for example, despite home being a contemptible person).
W. Bush, on the other hand, is no Picasso— and even Picasso, the shitbag he was, was no war criminal. And he certainly hated fascists.
The only thing I would disagree with in this take would be who are you to judge what is and isn't of sufficient redeeming value to override to state of the artist? I would argue that art by definition is subjective and as such making any objective arguments or claims to discredit an artwork simply due to its creator is therefore invalid.
I was wandering that too. Art is art. I can apreciate without voting dor it
Roland Barthes just came a lil bit because you said that