posted by JS @ 8:04 PM
Monday, October 31, 2005
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedung, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
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2 Comments:
What is the point of this? Just to creep us out with a naked George Bush? Thematically, there is no connection to Manet's "Olympia." And why did the painter try to make Cheney black? Just to match the maid in the original "Olympia"?
I think it is a play on the "the emperor has no clothes," along with a feminising of an otherwise macho character (Bush). Obviously the oil rig is a tad heavy handed, but the painting resonates with me. Also, Manet's Olympia is one of the most ennui-ridden characters in art history and provides a funny foil for Bush's "man of action" persona.
P.S. this is the one piece of not my intellectual property that I feel the worst about posting.
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