Posted on 06/14/2009 7:32:15 AM PDT by Borges
Bruce Elliott has painted a nude portrait of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and hung it above the Old Town Ale House, where it's now a prime attraction among his display of more than 200 celebrity portraits and other racy art.
Elliott's wife, Tobin Mitchen, owns the bar on Chicago's North Side,
Palin became Elliott's muse after he saw her on TV.
"I've been following her religiously," he said Monday at the bar. "I had never heard of her before, like everyone else. I find her bizarrely fascinating, even though I pretty much despise everything she stands for."
Despite their political differences, Elliott admits to a bit of a crush on the Alaska governor. He began painting her smile and trademark glasses, he said, before filling in the details: a gun, red high heels, polar bear rug, rugged Alaska landscape and a scared moose. His daughter, who looks a little like Palin and does a great impression of her, served as model for the governor's body
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Why, he is only a few religious symbols made of fecal material away from being a celebrated (NEA grant-getting) artist.
Sick puppy.
Well there goes my breakfast!!!
Sick, perverted bastid!
You’re right... he’s not a very good artist. Very two dimensional and lacking flavor. His work is also very cartoonish and poorly proportioned. This is an attempt to get some kind of recognition and fame since the quality of his art won’t get it for him... massive fail on his part.
That’s not a painting, that’a a cartoon.
And the left seems to have a need to replace Bush Derangement Syndrome with Palin Derangement Syndrome.
How sick are these people?
The Constitution...
One does not have to be if it serves The Agenda™.
That's a grade school painting, the canvas equivalent of Rall's clumsy pornography.
But it's the Special Thought that counts. We don't DO "Talent" any more.
Where is the caboose? And the cute little ammo belt?
The North side is very liberal, they have their good jobs a boat for the lake, high cost housing, and Chicago Sports to round out their sleepiness to the American condition. So he takes his twisted liberalism (notice he despises her politics) and uses his "art" to jab her.
Imagine a nude of Hillary or Michelle done by a conservative, the liberals would scream to high heaven.
IMHO this is a very odd man...
Next up, Nancy Pelosi.
A pathetic 3rd graders quality painting you couldn't get .50 cents for at a garage sale.
Oh, what a true artist like Alberto Vargas could of done with a beauty like Palin. Of course, Michell Obama or Hillary painted on the nose of a B24 would of scared the Nazis more.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
That thought may actually make me long for helen thomas' face... no, I guess not.
Well, maybe....
(Hand me that revolver please...)
He despises everything she stands for.
2nd Amendment
Freedom
Not killing babies
Motherhood
Raising and loving handicapped kids
women in politics.
If he despises these things I despise him.
By the way his art isnt art, it literally sucks.
I hope Chicagoan's understand how their paper is trying to use them to build ugliness towards the Palin family, AGAIN.
Just despicable...
The face is close, but the ass is only half big enough.
He is a trashy pervert...
Bruce Elliot told ArtDaily that the model for the nude Sarah Palin painting was his daughter.
Sure, he’s a real Norman Rockwell, but as the old aphorism goes, any publicity is good publicity.
Not when there is money to be made off Sarah Palin!
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