So what's everyone think of GW's art prowess?

[cilla4progress]

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[warrior1]

1. I don't.

[liberal N proud]

2. People are surprised

Surprised that through the alcohol and drugs, he finally found something that he didn't totally fuck up.

[baldguy]

3. Not as good as some others.

[joeybee12]

12. You scared me...I thought those were Bush's until I saw the signature...nt

[Mnemosyne]

13. Hehehe... nt

[appleannie1]

4. I would not buy it or go to a show. I have seen better in starving artist sales in malls.

[deutsey]

5. I'd tell him not to quit his dayjob

but then I'd remember that he's never had one of those.

[CTyankee]

6. actually, I found myself attracted to his shower pictures. For once, I saw something self aware in

the man. Or perhaps just a dawning self-awareness. Looking at himself in that shower mirror...what is HE seeing? Why is he looking in the first place? Why is he painting what he is doing?

Churchill's stuff (IIRC) was more about nature. Bush seems to be self questioning and perhaps he doesn't quite know why, and maybe he never will.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The dog paintings aren't very good.

The one in the shower is better - kind of quirky and interesting. I don't think he's especially talented but at least he's keeping busy and staying out of public view for the most part. I'd rather not see or hear of him at all.

[My Pet Goat]

8. Frankly, they're not bad....

I'm not saying they're great, but something he can hang on the walls of his home and feel ok about.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Here's my summation of DU's attitude toward GWB's artwork:

"Ohhhhhhhh, that's BEAUTIFUL! So evocative and serene...reminiscent of (insert quickly-googled, appropriately obscure artist here)...so well done...keep it up!

"What, what? Oh, that was done by a Republican? SHRUB? THEN IT'S THE WORST PIECE OF SHIT I'VE EVER SEEN! I LEAVE BETTER ARTWORK IN THE TOILET AFTER A DAY OF LENTILS AND VODKA! PAINT-BY-NUMBERS WORTHLESS NO-TALENT PIECE OF SHIT!"


In other words, I am interested in Prob(good) rather than Prob(Good|Bush).

[bhikkhu]

10. If only he'd taken it up a few years sooner...

we might have been spared a whole lot of the mess we've been working our way out of.

[Mnemosyne]

14. + a brazillion! nt

[NightWatcher]

15. It kinda creeps me out. A grown ass man who started wars...puppies

It's very John Wayne Gacy-ish

[My Good Babushka]

16. Annoying that he can sell all of them

if he wants to, probably for millions of dollars, and they're lousy. While some of us actually studied art and try hard every day and can barely make ends meet.
That being said, go look at my art
and don't forget that I'm always taking portrait commissions !
https://www.etsy.com/shop/mygoodbabushka

[Atman]

24. The ONLY reason they'd sell is because of the man who painted them.

Otherwise they wouldn't fetch $20 at a local flea market. It's purely pedestrian high school art show stuff. But as such, they're better than most other pedestrian high school art stuff. I applaud him his efforts, and for finally doing what HE wants to do, instead of what Dick "Dick" Cheney wants him to do.

[B2G]

17. Hell, I can't even draw a stick figure.

Who am I to judge him?

Here are some more. The grapes are really quite good. I like Barney too.

http://gawker.com/george-w'-bush-paintings/

[whatchamacallit]

18. Shrub's original version of the 'coming clean' painting

[Raine1967]

22. ooooh... subtle!

well done.

[whatchamacallit]

25. Ha, thanks

5 minutes is PS

[cthulu2016]

19. techincally inept and a little trite, but there are many worse paintings by others

[JHB]

20. I think this needs to be placed next to every one of them

[KamaAina]

21. He left some of the numbers showing

[Atman]

23. How about from an artist's perspective?

I paint. I'm an illustrator, a cartoonist, a graphic designer. I've never done anything else in my life.

But I am not a President (except for my high school senior class). I don't have a presidential bone in my body. While I didn't lie naked in coffins in college, I did some partying. George did, too. George was NEVER presidential material. More likely, he was always more of the impetuous artist type. Scattered. Just wanted to do his thing, but was always being told it was the wrong thing, and that he better not quit his day job.

Because of the family stature, an artist wasn't a permissible route for him to take. GWB may have been perfectly happy being a bohemian slob, painting every day...but no way in hell GHWB (or Battleaxe Bar) was going to stand for some little faggot artist ruining the family legacy. So he accepted the hand dealt him, and now he doesn't give a shit what anyone else thinks about him. He was President...YOU weren't.

"I'm painting...I'm painting again...you can't see it 'till it's finished..."

[Blue Owl]

26. Monet trumps his pieces

They might win honorable mention in a 4-H Art Contest...

[Rex]

27. Are we sure he really painted them?

Jus sayin...