from the British publication Metro:
When a British artist was denied US backing to paint a portrait of President George Bush he decided to make an ‘alternative’ version - from images of porn.
Now Jonathan Yeo, 36, has caused a stir in the US, where Republicans have attacked the work for being in poor taste.
A Republican spokesman said: “This picture is very distasteful. Why would anyone want to make a picture of our President from pornographic material?”
… Jonathan, son of former Tory backbencher Tim Yeo, told Metro: “To get the right skin tones for a man in his 50s the healthy, tanned and airbrushed bodies of the majority of top-shelf magazines were no good. …… And for the hair I eventually tracked down some German magazines that don’t necessarily follow the Hollywood wax route.”
My opinion: This is funny, hilarious, made me fall off my chair and I wish Jonathan Yeo would offer an image which you can zoom into and see the different magazine pictures he used to create his portrait … you can see the filth and dirt in George W. Bush’s face - sort of.
American activists and artists need to get with it and shock more to receive the attention they need, right?
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i have a pretty sweet picture of bush made out of tiny pictures of actual assholes. seriously. i would put the link up but it might be a little more than offensive to people who prefer looking at the big asshole and not a million tiny real assholes.
Reply to flipToo, many… Bush… Jokes… …Possible!
* Head Explodes *
Reply to Argh!This is all about the First Amendment. Let’s not follow the gov’t down the path of censorship. After all, censorship is becoming America’s favorite past-time. The US gov’t (and their corporate friends), already detain protesters, ban books like “America Deceived” from Amazon and Wikipedia, shut down Imus and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings. Free Speech forever (especially for artists).
Reply to IkeLast link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
yeah I see it. is that ron jeremy right on his nose? or is that just his nose?
Reply to barryAlways thought the man was a dick head. Most appropriate material for his portrait. (That aside, the artistry is admirable if somewhat flattering).
Reply to SallySort of like the `Picture of Dorian Gray’.
Reply to Adam GhaznaviExcept in the real world he’s a prick as well…
This is to much of an honor for the prez. Porn is not filth it is a social nessecity.
Reply to anotheraholeHow about making a portrait of him using the different shades of charred flesh taken from the pictures of Iraqi civilian casualities. Now there is an honor
Reply to anotheraholeI agree with some that the picture does not go far enough. But then it is hard to get a sufficient quantity of vile, obscene, delusional, mendacious, cruel and sick pictures to actually equal the real thing.
Reply to Dr. Richard Welserhell yeah ..
Reply to martinbring it to a gallery in the US
Who the hell is this Bush character to dirty up nice and enjoyable porn pics ?
Reply to jack assHaha I love it. Will somebody please do one of Mr Blair? It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. In the words of south park, ‘Its always a vote between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
Reply to Muddy Monster (Hi Mum)I love it! It’s hilarious, well done, and oh so appropriate. GlobalGrind.com’s News Feed has an interesting article on this.
Reply to AprilThank you for your comments on this. I’m actually surprised I have seen any of the gun lovers from http://www.katize.com/2007/08/11/sleep-tight-with-the-safe-bedside-table/ come to Bush’s rescue yet. That’d be fun.
Reply to larsnice ear!
Reply to Kenneth NegranGay porn would have been a much better choice.
Reply to johncool stuff I love fredom of speach !!! imagine if someone would only think to do such thing in Communist Romania (before ‘89) he got arested in snap without any comment … people were locked up for many years for trying to speak up !!!
Reply to BlueSheepI’d like to say something smart about this but I’m afraid that he’d use that as an excuse to attack my country… but I’d like to see flip’s picture of those tiny lil assholes he was speaking off earlier!
Reply to alanbernard