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Check out this new portrait hanging in the White House. EXCELLENT PRESIDENT EXCELLENT ART (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/art@hexbear.net

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It's a shitty image but I googled and googled and I couldn't find a better one.

Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House. Trump broke some norms about hanging paintings.

I also googled the artist - Marc Lipp. I hoped I could find an interview or at least a quote by him about the painting. But I found nada.

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[–] jenni007@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

From style this painting reminds of the art in nazi germany and fascist Italy: a heroic, over-emotional figure; technically mediocre, aimed at scoring quick points with uneducated masses. Look up images of “Italian Fascist art” - the parallels are easily recognizable. This is worrisome. Fascism tends to start by replacing “free art” and redefining what is to be regarded as really “beautiful” and politically acceptable. Combined with the book burnings that are now taking place (not yet on the streets, but digitally and in libraries and photo archives), and the deportations, it should be obvious to even the biggest idiot where this is heading.