Lithuanian Street Artist Creates Colorful Mural Depicting Putin–Trump Kiss

[pampango]

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trump-putin-kiss-lithuania-mural-497387

A new mural of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, locked in a sloppy kiss, is going viral. The painting is located on the side of a restaurant called Keule Ruke in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius.

Mindaugas Bonanu, a Lithuanian street artist and graphic designer, is behind the project, reports the Baltic Times. He recently unveiled the work, titled, "Make Everything Great Again," with the help of the barbecue restaurant's owner, Dominykas Ceckauskas. "We saw similarities between the two heroes (Trump and Putin)," Ceckauskas said in a statement. He added: "They both have an ego that is too big and it is funny that they get along well."

The portrait articulates a tender physical exchange reminiscent of Dmitri Vrubel's 1990 graffiti work, My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love. The " target="_blank">world-renowned street art project in Berlin draws its inspiration from a photograph of communist leader Erich Honecker and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

As the Washington Post notes, this Putin-Trump scene is a nod to the fraternal kiss that served as a customary greeting among male socialist leaders.

This will not win Lithuania any points in Moscow. Homophobia is government policy.

[Bad Dog]

1. It's not without precedent.

[MattSh]

2. This seems rather pointless...

What's this supposed to prove, except that fact that the more outrageous something is, the more likely it will go viral.

What I would really like to see is the same scenario, with Hillary and Henry the K. (Kissinger)

[linuxman]

3. Haha, they're gay! What a total putdown!