I don't know enough about artistic technique to even make an educated guess/put my finger on what it is about it I don't like...I just know that other portraits done in this style also do little for me.

But, of course, having GWB* as subject surely doesn't help.

artist.


http://www.aaronartprints.org/remington-thestampede.php

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Bush thinks it's called, "A Charge to Keep," and it represents Methodist ministers riding around the Alleghenies. The main cowboy even bears a resemblance to Bush, and that's what Bush mistakenly calls it.

However, it's a painting by W.H.D. Koerner that he was commissioned to make to go along with a magazine story in 1916, called, "The Slipper Tongue," about a smooth talking horse thief, who if he had left 15 minutes sooner on his getaway would have escaped.

The cowboy that Bush identifies with is in fact the horse thief, and the men coming up behind him are a posse determined to see justice done.

It really speaks to the Bush presidency on a number of levels - Bush doesn't know shit; Bush when presented with the true facts of something will still be convinced he's right; Bush associating himself with a horse thief, etc.

TlalocW

There, I painted one for him that better captures his term in office. It took five minutes:

of His Chimpiness' pretzeldency: