September 02, 2007
Bush Flesh
"It seems someone (Jonathan Yeo) thought it would be a great idea to mix a portrait of GW Bush and explicit sex images.
I must say I find it funny, that's all. I would find it intelligent only in case the artist had made this collage protesting against, for example, the Abu Graib's porn pics for which GW is responsible (no invasion --> no POW torture --> no torture pics).
It's not the first time someone tries to join the words Bush and porn, in fact it seems to be something common:
-http://www.thefirsttwins.com/hustler.html
- http://www.absurddiari.com/s/llegir.php?llegir=llegir&ref=5340
More info:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007400185,00.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/rostro/pornografico/Bush/elpepucul/20070829elpepucul_6/Tes
Regards.~ Priapo --priapATgmail.com AT http://pgp.mit.edu
"Fevered anticipation surrounded the unveiling of a new portrait of President George W Bush by Jonathan Yeo at London's Lazarides Gallery yesterday.
The celebrated painter - whose father is the Tory MP Tim Yeo - had originally been commissioned to do an official portrait of the commander-in-chief himself, but it never came to fruition.
So Yeo, opting to continue with the work nevertheless, has exacted sweet revenge for his snub across the pond, by completing what can only be described as a highly unofficial depiction of the President.
While to the unsuspecting eye the portrait is an accurate likeness, upon closer inspection it is revealed to have been created out of a collage of pornography.
"If you're standing more than six feet away, you don't even realise that you're looking at pornography," Yeo told me at the unveiling.
"But if you are easily offended, then I'd advise you to keep your distance and admire it from afar. I think it is amusing rather than offensive, although somebody has just pointed out to me that what's going on in the right ear is actually illegal in the president's home state of Texas."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/29/dp2901.xml
~(Stubbornson) Wouldn't images of Iraqi and Afghani dead bodies be more fitting, if somewhat obvious, sources for a portrait of today's most prolific mass murderer? But for UK Tories images of pornography in the vicinity of images of world leaders is heady political stuff? Daring!?
I could picture President Bush as a Tibetan Tantric death figure with all manner of torn, decayed, broken, burned, cannibalized and desecrated flesh incorporated into his image.
Perhaps more to the point haven't porno collage-portraits become the next cool thing by which the club-hopping sons & daughters of our leaders 'gift' each other and celebrate their coked lives?
Are they capable of that sort of self-mockery? The more inventive commissiond artists could add video stills and photos from their patrons' homemade private porn-stashes.
[illus. A.Warhola\ not from above]
I'm reminded of the popularity of Andy Wahola's silk-screen celebrity portraits, thinking that pornographic collages like Mr Yeo's should be popular in a more limited way.
Posted by Stubbornson at September 2, 2007 01:30 AM