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[Boges]

http://www.torontosu...raises-eyebrows

KINGSTON, Ont. -- He's relaxed on a chaise lounge chair, leaning back but staring out at the viewer with a slight smirk as people surround him, a woman offers him a Tim Hortons coffee and a dog rests comfortably beside his leg.

In contrast to the suits that surround him though, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is completely naked.

The oil on canvas painting, entitled Emperor Haute Couture by artist Margaret Sutherland, is raising eyebrows at the Kingston, Ont., library where it is currently on display in a room.

"It's a political satire of a contemporary political figure," Sutherland told QMI Agency. "A classic pose using a contemporary figure."

Sutherland added it's a modern take on Edouard Manet's 1863 painting, Olympia.

The five-foot-long painting was unveiled earlier this month during the Kingston Arts Council annual juried art show. The piece is selling for $5,000.

Not knowing what was headed their way before the painting arrived, the library had a difficult decision on what to do with the Emperor, chief librarian Patricia Enright said.

Can't artists find something more constructive to do with their generous government grants? This is trash! It's not even original.

Edited by Boges, 18 May 2012 - 06:00 AM.

[Shakeyhands]

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/17/nude-painting-of-harper-raises-eyebrows



Can't artists find something more constructive to do with their generous government grants? This is trash! It's not even original.

Where do you see that she receives any grant money?


and for the record, I would have added moobs to him, and a tiny package, solely for the laughs.

[Michael Hardner]

It sounds prett original to me. Could you have done better?

[Wild Bill]

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/17/nude-painting-of-harper-raises-eyebrows



Can't artists find something more constructive to do with their generous government grants? This is trash! It's not even original.

Most popular art is brainless. This attempt at satire is like gangsta rap - no real depth, just profanity and shocking images. Instead of true wit we see locker room humour. Supporters bray like teenagers because they will bray at anything that attacks someone on their "evil" list, like Harper.

Folks might like to google up "spendthrift heirs". Once again, we are witnessing a social race to the bottom...

[Michael Hardner]

I don't think it's so bad. Conservative PMs willingly posed nude a generation or so ago, so it's following a tradition of sorts.

[Manny]

Most popular art is brainless. This attempt at satire is like gangsta rap - no real depth, just profanity and shocking images.

Yes and in each era, art imitates life.

[BubberMiley]

I feel sorry for people who have to go through life without any sense of humour whatsoever. The world must be terribly confusing to them sometimes.

[jacee]

A dog?
What happened to the kittens?

I can't imagine wanting to put that in your livingroom!
But it'd be funny to see.

[g_bambino]

This is trash!

Your opinion.

It's not even original.

Where's the original?

[g_bambino]

But it'd be funny to see.

It's here.

[Topaz]

We know that's not his body unless the artist has seen him nude but here's a link to a picture without the black dot., nothing to look at, I'll stop there. http://www.bourque.org/

[TheNewTeddy]

It was done to purposely offend and bother people. AKA it is "edgy".

[BubberMiley]

It was done to purposely amuse and humour people. AKA (ergo?) it is "funny".

Edited by BubberMiley, 18 May 2012 - 10:48 AM.

[g_bambino]

It was done to purposely offend and bother people.

Visual art doesn't have a sole purpose to provide banal wall decoration, just like music's main raison d'etre isn't background noise.

[GostHacked]

The Emperor has no clothes.