Posted on 09/20/2009 7:24:51 PM PDT by quegley
On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries”:
On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to attend a conference call scheduled for Monday August 10th hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve. The call would include “a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, taste-makers, leaders or just plain cool people to join together and work together to promote a more civically engaged America and celebrate how the arts can be used for a positive change!”
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
While they are at it please defund NPR and taxpayer support for the political party conventions, apparatus!
roflol!
Exactly my thoughts.
Breitbart is the Patton of the New Media Wars.
Very interesting.
Comrade Obama's socialist realism.
It looks like he has done a lot of posters.
Posted on 09/01/2009 8:30:28 AM EDT by ETL
"Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment.
"What I heard was a well thought-out pitch to encourage artists to create art on these issues," Courrielche told FOXNews.com. "We were told we were consulted for a reason, and they specifically stated those issues as the issues we should focus on, to plant the seed. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what they're attempting to do."
The word volunteerism was never used," Courrielche said. "Service was the word being used and it was in specific areas, those being health care, energy and the environment."
Courrielche said the now ubiquitous Obama "Hope" poster by artist Shepard Fairey and musician will.i.am's "Yes We Can" song and music video were offered as "shining examples" of the artist group's clear impact on Obama's landslide election."
Barack Obama has a GOEBBELS. What is the name of the minister of propaganda?
AMERICA DESERVES TO KNOW!!!
The NEA funded Piss Christ.
Can I get $40,000 for PISS OBAMA?
What makes you think theres only 2 shoes??
I hope they have had a spy in the SEIU and other leftist groups. If not they need to hire some. They are ALL criminal.
I'm so not looking forward on how the MSM is going to protect The Zero on this, since it could possibly cause a lot of damage to the entertainment industry. 
“I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and I’m delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama.”
-Shepard Fairey
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Also by Shepard Fairey, Obama's personal icon artist...
http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=171
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http://www.duckywaddles.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=744
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"Stalin Lenin", Shepard Fairey,
limited edition silkscreen, signed
and numbered. 18"X24" *SOLD OUT*
Source: http://www.duckywaddles.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=429
...another big scandal that will be ignored....
Obama has big feet. If all his shoes keep dropping a lot of people are going be hurt and knocked on their fannies . And soon Zero will be barefoot. What a lovely picture..the emperor with no clothes, will have no shoes either!
If enough people say that, you will be correct. It will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is an effective tactic.
Let the Madoff-investor types fund this artsy crap. Government has no business in it nor broadcasting for that matter.
The Tastemakers: The Shaping of American Popular Taste, by Russell Lynes. Dover Publications, 1980
His New York Times obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/16/arts/russell-lynes-80-an-editor-and-arbiter-of-taste.html
Essayist, social historian, photographer and Renaissance man, Mr. Lynes was an acclaimed expert on what was highbrow, what was lowbrow and what was no brow at all. One reviewer called him "the maestro of an unpretentious brand of social commentary which is civilized and stimulating.
This attitude in the “arts” starts early. I can say, anecdotally, that young conservative artists are discouraged early on in the education system. Realistic art in the form of painting/drawing is passed over for “modern” art. Film schools give high marks based on how many F bombs are included in the student’s film. There is alot of work to be done by conservatives related to influencing the arts. They have a tremendous roll in shaping the young skulls full of mush and are basically controlled by the left.
"As Dana Loesch recently reported at Big Government, the Serve.Gov portal funnels citizens to volunteer or service projects connected with ACORN and other leftist groups. The taxpayer-funded website is evolving into a cyber-recruitment tool for the progressive movement.
So what did happen on that call? Was the NEA coordinating with the White House to push their agenda on a group of artists eager for and reliant upon the NEA for grants, or is the NEA telling the truth that this call “was not a means to promote any legislative agenda”?
Tomorrow at noon ET, explosive new information will answer that question and raise many others.
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