Painting of nude Bush removed from museum

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WASHINGTON -

A cartoonish painting of President Bush (news - web sites) in the nude has been taken down from the wall at the City Museum of Washington. The picture, called "Man of Leisure, King George," adopts the pose of a famous Impressionist painting, Edouard Manet's "Olympia," that scandalized Paris in 1863, and now hangs in the Gare d'Orsay Museum in Paris.

The painting by local artist Kayti Didriksen, shows a caricature of Bush, reclining in the nude on a chaise lounge, his head propped up by pillows.

Instead of the female servant who stands behind Olympia's couch, a man in suit and tie resembling Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) stands nearby, holding a cushion with a crown and a miniature oil rig on top of it.

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That is freakin hilarious.

... but in the interests of political satire ...


(I'm going to look at something less grotesque now, like the collected works of Hieronymus Bosch, just so I won't have "naked Dubya" nightmares.)

:D

Not because of the subject matter, either.

doesn't it?! :puke:

It would give me a chuckle everytime I would come to sit a the puter.

but at the same time oddly disturbing.

Food for thought.

Could have had fun with Ashcroft and that one...

As an artist myself, I thought this is hilarious! Satire is often a great weapon against angry knee-jerkers.

Oh jeez, I thought Bush lost his ***** and Cheney was going to give him a gold plated one.

...of the blocked out word have anything to do with GOLDMEMBER?

I report, you decide!

:snicker:

Hey now!

I hope it is unveiled early in Kerry's administration in the new venue.

:D

He loves to take long baths. They'd do good meetings together.

like David's painting of Marat in his bath?

Old Simpsons episode.