Could be a "street mural" in Cali-atzlan.

What's with all the dead chickens?

hmmm.
a new melenium Pecaso peice I think !
How does it stand next to that Spanish Civil war pic of his?

/ art critic screed

Not to mention SUV hatred.

It's a window on the sophistical unconscious.

Isn't there supposed to be a crucifix in a bottle of urine somewhere?

Come on...they must be slacking.

?

An abomination for sure.

Are those rockets or minarets in the upper right? I can never tell. And who's riding the bomb with Slim Pickens?

Not only that, it stinks as "art".

killgore

Industri-food.

Is that Danny Bonnaduce driving the Hummer, or Owen Wilson?

#11 godfrey
I just fugured it out...
bird flu!

Shouldn't there be a half-chicken half-hawk somewhere?

#2 Killgore Trout

What's with all the dead chickens?

Kilgore chicken?

If it weren't for the evil 'ol US of A, the world would be a pre-industrial Islamo Socialist paradise!

Whatever.

Just give me the link to the downloadable blacklight-inks-on-velvet painting.

Dude.

#12 godfrey
Leonardo DiCaprio?

This is a video game, right?

OOH! and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, too!

Look who's riding the nuke in the upper righthand corner!

Maybe the chickens are the bird flu?

I can't find Waldo.

#15 Earth2moonbat
BRAWK BRAWK!
/cluck cluck....scatch...cluck

Of course, no moonbat work is complete without a negative depiction of Walmart.

Is it available on velvet?

Ill admit to being rather deficient as an art critic, but what's with the splodydope getting ready to stab Gorby's wife? Is it because she's wearing Mickey Mouse ears?

The "artist" has made a caricature of himself.

I see no "Jews strangling 'palestinians'"

I see a lot of Christians strangling Arabs though.

Maybe someone can direct me to the J strangling "P", please.

kg

Of course!

Who's the little girl in the ballet dress? JonBenet?

Click the image for a larger version.

Thanks anyway.

#21 phoenixgirl

I can't find Waldo.

Forget Waldo, where's Jamil?

Board of Directors (as reps of advertising companies I would think they don't wish to alienate at least half of the country, no?)

Jeroen Bours
Hill Holliday

Ken Carbone
Carbone Smolan Agency

Kathy Delaney
Deutsch, Inc.

Ann Harakawa
Two Twelve Design

Doug Jaeger
thehappycorp global

President
Paul Lavoie
Taxi

Vice-President
Brian Collins
Ogilvy & Mather Brand Integration Group

Secretary
Chee Pearlman
Chee Company

Treasurer
Michael Donovan
D/G2, Inc. & Asphalt Media

It's a bit of homage to Bosch. Now that political beliefs have taken the place of religion for so many people, stands to reason.

Are those fainting chickens? Or are they just pining for the fjords?

#27 WrathofG-d

I see no "Jews strangling 'palestinians'"

You're right. There's no D9. No apartheid wall. This should be disqualified.

And What We see here is...

1. Projection?

2. Bad Acid?

3. Strong Hashish?

4. All of the Above?

Somehow I think R. Crumb would have done a better job.

-S-

Look at the splodeydoper behind the couple with the shopping cart.

Caspar the Friendly Jihadi?

That's me whopping the Prophet!

Hows come the splodeydope is trying to blow up the SUV?

#9 Jack Reacher

Missiles or minarets? Both, of course. Because Islam is a religion of peace... through superior firepower.

'Tis neither Slim nor Pickens astride the Glassmaker. It appears to be Kim Jong Il and Achma--, Ahmed--, uh, Achmadoo--, you know, the guy from Iran.

The political leaders holding hands are playing Ring Around the Rosie, a poem from the Black Death. Notice rat. Were the Neo-Cons behind the Plague, too?

The things you learn from Lefties.

Umm.......this is really, really stupid.

Divine punishment has become Gaia punishment. The SUV and tsunami are like avenging angels, or demons, as the case may be. Various ghouls or equally one-dimensional characters like Republicans prance and cavort. I like it, in a simple-minded-keeps-them-off-the-streets way.

(Click the image for a larger version.)

Where do I click for a better version?

Maybe someday this artist, if he practices real hard, learns his craft, gets a few lucky breaks, and does not starve to death, can move up to doing copies of velvet elvis paintings or copies of those dogs playing cards.

Then again?

Nahhh.

Funny, but I thought advertising companies kinda like contracts with large corporations.

Who handles the GM account? The Wal-Mart account? The Starbucks account? The Disney acct?

Are these people insane?

Loving the dog in the burbury outfit and the obese baby on a leash!

#34 Earth2moonbat
There's a Christian choking and Arab in the lower right. The Jew choking and Arab is in front of the SUV.

Is there a higher hi-res version? I can't see all the details.

Is this supposed to be a "Klassik Komix" remake of Hieronymous Bosch?

#42

I like it, in a simple-minded-keeps-them-off-the-streets way.

Bring back midnight basketball.

Bosch did the allegorical schtick better.

I hope Leo Tanguma is not involved with these moonbats.

That's art?

The artist's careful juxtaposition of jarring visual metaphors provides a powerful insight into modes of alienation felt in the complex, interconnected modern world.

Just kidding; it's s***

The left of today, the whacky left that is, will be remembered as the supersition that it is.

Shows you how poerful liberal racism is that Arabs, even those day after day behaving like aggressors, can only be seen as helpless victims.

Note the disdain for the wal-martians. Real populist, we have here.

Jimmuh is parting the sea but it is just out of the scene, over the edge ( pun intended )

If this is the quality of work these sponsors are supporting, I am thinking they would be better off sponsoring a few 3rd grader art projects.
At least the art would be better and you could have a more coherent conversation with the artists.

#48 Alouette

Just click the pic.

Hieronymus Bunk.

What is the symbolism in the upper left across?

Nuclear mushroom cloud and out of it the horsemen of Revelation?

#45 canadianally

Are these people insane?

Uhm...

Yes.
Thanks for noticing.

I wouldn't take the painting so seriously if I were you, Charles. As an artist myself, and you being an artist yourself, it's pretty ham fisted in technique and concept.

If this is some sort of student piece, this upset little child needs to pay more attention to his/her painting techniques classes. He's no John Singer seargent.

Maybe a little more study of artistic anatomy, figural painting, and composition, and less to do with politics. He could also use some classes ini "abstracting" his concepts, lest it be a tagger's mural at best.

Looks like MAD magazine gone terribly wrong.

#51 zulubaby

That's art?

No.

/why, does it look like art?

A guard at the Hirshhorn saw my confusion, took me under his wing (guarding is boring), and gave me the best tour of modern art I've ever had. It was interesting.

Still, one of the funniest books I've ever read is The Painted Word, by Tom Wolfe.

I do like Imadinnerjacket and Kim riding the bomb

How the LLL views the world through rose colored glasses tin foil hats

I like how they cropped the "art" on their home page to make it appear apolitical.

I don't have photoshop on my computer....can someone zoom in on the bottom right for the name of the "artist"?

Still don't have the nads to put a pic of Mo in there,wimpy,wombly wambly little coward.

The work is a complete ripoff of Robert Williams, an American genius who used to work for Big Daddy Roth and underground comix before becoming a most prominent contemporary artist.

58 zenbone

lol Permission to steal that.

Well, it is imaginative at least. If the artist could shift just one-tenth of his creativity over to thinking as a rational, civilised human being we might be on to something.

I miss Jessie Helms critical reviews.

Earth:

Funny....but I was being serious.

Charles claims that there are "Jews strangling 'palestinians'", I really haven't been able to find it in the pic.

Really looks like an album cover, actually.

#53 tokyobk

Shows you how poerful liberal racism is that Arabs, even those day after day behaving like aggressors, can only be seen as helpless victims.

Something else very peculiar is that all the faces are white. It's as if this artist has no awareness of minorities outside of Arabs. Possibly one himself.

The themes represent a very peculiar subset of the moonbat worldview; BDS, environmental/animal rights themes, muslim as victim, and contempt for wal-mart and it's customers (representing consumerism of the lower class).

There's a whole array of other moonbat issues (such as feminism) that are being ignored.

It has come to pass. The Mothership has left her concealment behing the rings of Saturn, and is headed for Earth. The Aliens have assimilated "art appreciation".

#55 Catttt

And how. Triumph of Death and Garden of Earthly Delights are classics which presaged modern art. Bruegel and Bosch are two of my favorite artists. Don't read too much into that, but that most modern art is completely worthless.

This paiting, for example, could be predicted if you follow the usual leftist websites. Spend a week at Kos, if you dare.

#74 WrathofG-d

In front of the green SUV.

This is what is known as a limited edition. The artist's talent is indeed very limited.

[Link: www.english.uiuc.edu...]

hmmm, no wal mart Screaming greeter in this troubling painting

Outre, no? No!

Send in Bauer.

#75 ChenZhen

Really looks like an album cover, actually.

/boy, I'd hate to see your music collection

#71 godfrey

Everything is stolen.

What a skewed view of the world, it blows my mind that people think like this...whoa.

Other work from Norbert Kox:

[Link: www.webbartgallery.com...]

Oops, I have 2 SUV's too. Think I'll get a third.

Needs more primary colors.

Artist's website:

[Link: www.nkox.homestead.com...]

Hey, one of the missiles is attached to the Starbucks. How 'bout that grande, moonbats?
Bwahahahahahahaha!

47 KIllgore & 79 Earth:

Nope, that is just another Christian. In the larger version you can see he has a Cross around his neck.

I think "The Jews" just might have avoided being attacked in this one....WOW!

Bush cries like a baby.

He's a bigger wuss than Patton.

"Norbert Kox lives today as a semi-hermit...But he is not alone since God (and God's stark message) is ever present in his meditative prayer, in the "bible codes" he finds in a computerized grid of Hebrew letters, and in his lushly visionary paintings and gothic constructions. Increasingly famous and infamous now for his prophetic images that challenge mainstream religious pieties, Kox is a benign, humble, and intelligent man. Clearly at peace with himself, he does not, however, shy away from confronting us with God's apocalyptic warnings and encrypted revelations. But there are always flashes of light and spirit within the darkness - signs of hope and renewal...powerfully communicating God's most secret messages through his intensely glowing paintings (he has developed his own techniques of translucent acrylic glazing) and biblically haunted found-object assemblages. Despite the fear that his work sometimes engenders, he has had increasing national success as an artist with a provocatively disturbing vision of the end-time. Most recently, he has been retreating from the bitter Wisconsin winters to the tropical sun of Bimini, and it seems that he has tempered some of the harsh cartoon evil portrayed in many of the early paintings. But no matter how much his recent work shows an ameliorating principle, Kox quietly and passionately persists in his attempt to unveil the mysteries of God's strange missives to humankind."

- Professor Norman J. Girardot (Curator, The End Is A New Beginning: Four Outsider Artists, 2000-2001, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA)

I'll tell you what it isn't: It's not Picasso's Guernica.

#84 Killian Bundy

/boy, I'd hate to see your music collection

I'd hate to hear it.

/That probably would be torture.

Seems like people this full of bile would all just commit mass suppuku and put themselves out of their pain.

#92 WrathofG-d
Ah, you might be corrrect. That might be a cross obstructed by the fold. It's hard to tell.

#83 JammieWearingFool

Yay Jack!

You know that the first four episodes were leaked and the torrents are out there.

Gee, I wonder what this one menas:

[Link: www.laluzdejesus.com...]

Clearly, this cat fancies himself as the painter from the show Heroes.

(And a belated Happy New Year to y'all!)

Uhh....does this qualify as Christophobic? Should all Christians riot? Now?

This one has the Star of David above the upside down cross:

[Link: www.laluzdejesus.com...]

Fascinating. i also note that this guy was a raving moonbat during the Clinton years! He must be downright certifiable now!

I kinda like the guy who is strangling the Mooslim. Maybe he is responsible for the dead chickens (practice, practice, practice).

Another piece of his work.

Dude, I totally want the guy who painted this to pimp my 1995 Ford Laser with, like, flames and a big skull with a dagger in its teeth and maybe a barbarian chick waving a huge-ass sword around. Then I'll get an 8-ball for the gearstick and some big fluffy dice for the windscreen, and I'll drive around K-Mart parking lots pretending to be Rat Fink as I honk at pensioners and ram their shopping carts. The artist can ride shotgun with me, as long as he doesn't bogart all the weed and Miller Lite. It'll be awesome.

Damn, how did they get a pic of me in the lower left hand corner with my green jacket on,,,,,

#107 zulubaby

That's not a pipe!

Biography:

Norbert Kox was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1945, on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. At seventeen, he joined army, where in his spare time he taught himself not only to paint, but also to drink. After his stint in the service, he continued to drink heavily while working on custom cars and motorcycles for a living. He became a notorious member of the "Outlaws" biker gang but hit bottom by his thirtieth birthday after a drug overdose. He swore off alcohol, gave away most of his possessions, and joined a conservative Pentecostal Christian group. As he studied the Scriptures, his perceptions of Christianity changed dramatically. Kox could no longer belong to any organized religious group; he now understood them to be the deception of evil forces. He saw pagan religious practice at the heart of this false representation of Christianity. For the next ten years he meditated, painted, and lived by himself in the woods of Wisconsin, There he built a personal chapel and a "Gospel Road" with scripture-based messages leading through the forest. In 1985, he started studies in religion and art at the University of Wisconsin, and has been painting full-time ever since. The resulting art is strange and beautiful, religious and sacrilegious, and doubly meaningful. La Luz De Jesus is very excited to bring you the visionary paintings of Norbert Kox and his first one-man West Coast exhibition.

#62 tangonine
Looks like MAD magazine gone terribly wrong.

Where's the fold in? I want my fold in.

Must pick up the complete Mad library on cd.

[Link: www.sitemason.com...]

This is definitely the artist?

I'm an SUV worshipper. He's insulting the great prophet Jeep! I must avenge this!

chowdog (#106),

I kinda like the guy who is strangling the Mooslim. Maybe he is responsible for the dead chickens (practice, practice, practice).

Yeah, Christians are known for strangling muslims and choking the chicken.
They're stupid.

zenbone, lol, I know, it's a fraud!

#111 canadianally

Norbert Kox was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1945, on the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Hmm.....

7 years of art school, down the drain!

zenbone 1/11/2007 05:28PM PST

#83 JammieWearingFool

Yay Jack!

You know that the first four episodes were leaked and the torrents are out there.

The TV reviewers receive them. The review I linked went into some detail.

#108 antipilgerite

That's what I was thinking. This is like a very, very bad van mural on the side of a '73 VW deadmobile. The only thing that's mising is the dancing bears.

#116 zulubaby

Yo!

Picking on Mickey Mouse? Ok, when they start picking on defenseless cartoon characters, that is TOO much.

#111

HUH?

I thought I saw that painted on a wall in Dinkeytown in 1970 when I was there trying to score some blow.

No, wait a minute, that wasn't me....

I don't like it.

I was never much of art student. After careful study I came to the following three-part test for measuring what is not Art.

It is not art if:

1. My 4-year-old niece could do it;
2. I, a reasonably intelligent person, did not understand the message; or
3. I could not hang it on my wall without losing my lunch on a daily basis.

Thus, according to my scheme of measurement, this is NOT ART!

#119 JammieWearingFool

I know but he didn't give any real spoilers.

But the first four episodes are on a mini-dvd and someone leaked them and they are available via bit torrent.

zulubaby (#113),

From your link about the artist:

He's a pretentious bore in addition to being a shitty "artist".

Contemporary religious painter Norbert Kox is one of America's most important Visionary artists. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the same day in 1945 that the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Kox's self-described "apocalyptic visual parables" utilize powerful symbolic metaphors to awaken modern man from his spiritual malaise and counter centuries worth of Biblical mistranslations.

Are you wearing those pointy toed shoes?

The fold-in shows Al Gore frenching George Soros.

I love my Hummer.
Screw you moonbats!

Bosch Derangement Syndrome?

#128 Geepers

utilize powerful symbolic metaphors to awaken modern man from his spiritual malaise and counter centuries worth of Biblical mistranslations.

Oh? Like a wal-martian in Mickey Mouse ears? I missed that mistranslation.

Tick...Beep...Tick...Beep...Tick...Beep.

/the offending moonbat artist is now in CTU custody, and undergoing "psychiatric evaluation".

#113: Yes.

utilize powerful symbolic metaphors to awaken modern man from his spiritual malaise

The man is bonkers.

#131 rappmandu

Bosch-Hitler?

Wow look at all the pretty Colors.
I think, Just to prove how tolerant We are. We should let the Artist Live. Or at least let him keep His Head.

Hows come Al Franken is throttling an arab?

#76 Earth2Moonbat:

There's a whole array of other moonbat issues (such as feminism) that are being ignored.

I suspect that feminist issues aren't big on DailyKOS either. I just tried searching for "feminism" and "feminist" there, and I found only two diaries there, one of which was a discussion of James Bond movies. I searched for "abortion" and found only 6 diaries there.

Could it possibly be that most of the "netroots" are male geeks?

Awright, now we're talking!

America IS at fault for creating our enemies, just as LIFE is at fault, because without LIFE, there would be NO DISEASE, would there?

I'm talking reality here, Dewd! We gotta get rid of LIFE and get rid of America!

...uh, but not necessarily in that order...

As a professional artist let me make a few comments and indulge myself.

First of all, it is executed with extremely bad taste. It is reminiscent of the stoner art my classmates used to bring into class (freshman year). Not that I have anything against stoners actually, but it is proof that this artist has not progressed above a 10th Grade level of technique. The color use is vulgar and done with a touch as light as King Kong.

There is no composition to speak of, other than the discreet placement of the objects. This sort of style was common...before the renaissance. It reflects a primitive mindset. The human beings see to lack structure, and have more in common with cartoon characters than with real people. this is also common in high school-level art. People are like inflated sacks, rather than bones and flesh suspended on bones.

I really could go on forever, but the fact that art directors are advertising for a conference with this....is just pathetic. These people are supposed to be professionals.

So in summary, it is vulgar, childish, obvious, poorly planned, poorly executed, and was obviously committed to the page while the artist was under the influence of marijuana.

Compare it to this work which was done hundreds of years ago, with a similar objective of portraying a society gone mad. Modern art has robbed us of any tradition that would otherwise discourage cretins like this from subjecting our eyes to their trash.

Where is the picture of GWB molesting young boys?

I'm sadly disapointed...

///Sarc////

PICTURE PERFECT JESUS
THE ART OF NORBERT KOX

Can a Billion Pictures of Jesus be Wrong?

Norbert Kox is a devout Christian and a serious student of religion. He is also an internationally renowned visionary artist most famous for his surrealistic apocalyptic paintings. Now he has done a series of paintings for an exhibit titled "Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud". He wants to set the record straight and destroy one of the greatest myths about Christ, specifically how Christ looked. And according to Kox, it's a far cry from Warner Sallman's pretty picture of Jesus which almost every Christian recognizes instantly since more than a billion prints have been made and sold since 1940. Kox considers it a disgrace. he claims that Sallman plagiarized the image using a painting by a French painter, Leon Lhermitte, done in 1892. "Being a graphic artist", Kox explains, "Sallman was skilled at copy work. He simply copied the bust of Christ from Lhermitte's oil painting, transforming it into a charcoal drawing which he titled "Son of Man". He never told anyone he copied the image. Sallman concocted an outlandish story of a vision of light and an apparition of the Head of Christ. After selling the charcoal for a magazine cover, he then did a full color oil painting using Lhermitte's image and named it "Son of Man". It had all the glamour of photographs of Hollywood Stars: The Picture Perfect Jesus. Kox has painted Sallman's portrait of Christ over and over again for his exhibit. But each one has been altered to portray Jesus in various forms ... as a Harley Davidson biker, as Frankensteins monster, as a Salmon, as an alien, as Santa , as a pig, as a bull. "The intentions of my work" Kox says, "is to cause people to think, to research and investigate rather an accept the blind traditions of men. The ultimate goal is to search the Scriptures on their own. The focus of my art is to target specific errors and idolatries of humanity, revealing their fallacies through scriptural references. I do not do the art to be irreverent, although there are always some people who are offended by it.

Is that Ahmadinejad & Kim Jong Il on the rocket ship upper right?

Most recently, he [Kox] has been retreating from the bitter Wisconsin winters to the tropical sun of Bimini

Hahahahahaaa

#113 zulubaby

Sun of Righteousness: Pearl of Great Price seems to have Hebrew writing on the upper left and right corners and Malachi 1:2-3 and Matthew 13:45-46 under the "wings." What's up with that?

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

TEHRAN (AFP) - Air pollution has killed 3,600 people in just a month in the Iranian capital Tehran, an official said, describing the city's environmental situation as a "collective suicide".

Hat tip..
[Link: www.thereligionofpeace.com...]

This is hysterical! I love it... it's like an Onion update of "Garden of Earthly Delights"! You couldn't find a better parody. All it needs is Clinton weeping with an armful of clubbed baby seals, as the upper tiers of the Brazilian rainforest topple behind him.

But sadly they seem to be serious. What a bunch of silly, grumpy douches. I hope the rest of the contest entries don't look like that. I'd much rather enjoy a sprawling panorama of a nature scene, or the natural beauty of the human body. Maybe some epic scene from mythology. A portrait of an interesting person.

I'm simply confounded that so many "left" leaning types claim to be so sensitive, artistic, and creative, when they are obsessed with negativity, self-hatred, and a morbid always-our-fault fantasy dimension of their own imagining. They can no longer appreciate beauty, see truth, or identify friend from foe. What happened to you guys?

#141, Dr. Manhattan:

Brilliant! Thanks. I just love LGF.

"The intentions of my work" Kox says, "is to cause people to think, to research and investigate rather an accept the blind traditions of men.

Mr. Kox, let us see you apply the same template to the Prophet Mohammed.

/challenge

Contemporary religious painter Norbert Kox is one of America's most important Visionary artists. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the same day in 1945 that the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Kox's self-described "apocalyptic visual parables" utilize powerful symbolic metaphors to awaken modern man from his spiritual malaise and counter centuries worth of Biblical mistranslations.

This is the kind of shit that flows through the minds of our Baby Boom generation..Weeks of crawling around under our school desks because of Nuclear drills...
They didnt call us Baby Boooomers for nothing...LO

/wait till you see the shit painted by these Doom Game players.........yo

The ultimate goal is to search the Scriptures on their own.

Right. He should've cracked another book, now and then.

#136 zenbone

(in 'Borat' voice)

"Yes, very nice!"

Good evening, Lizards.

#141 Dr Manhattan: Concur Yr Analysis!
Primitive, adolescent, unstructured, immature...

One thing would be interesting: I wonder what the artist's conceptualization of a shiny, happy world would be.

Nah, that would be too hard. Too many original ideas are necessary.

zenbone, now that's a pipe!

canadianally, thanks.

Geepers,

Are you wearing those pointy toed shoes?

Tell me when and where ...

#145 godfrey

Most recently, he [Kox] has been retreating redeploying from the bitter Wisconsin winters to the tropical sun of Bimini

fixed that for him

Higher rez at the site itself...

[Link: www.adcawards.org...]

ploome

Yes. All that unpleasantness about jihadis beheading Christian girls in Indonesia was just an illusion.

Devout Christian, my butt. Devout marxist.

#112 BlueCanuck

I was eyeing the foldy lines, too. None.
This work ain't up there with Little Annie Fanny.
(Buy the MAD cd set, please.
It's worth it for the early issues, when Playboy and Mad were more in the same vein.)

I don't know what vein this stuff is in. I'm sure he copied from lots of comicbooks to get this far, artwise. It's the Curse of Basquiat, the artist feels no need to classically train anymore.

#115 Geepers,

Sorry man, I meant to explain that I was against strangling Mooslims before I was for it. Chickens too.

# 148 Yes it is amazing how intolerant the left is, With anything they don`t agree with. in the name of Tolerance of course.

It's like Salvador Dali on dumb...

The polar bear riding the tsunami is a figure for global warming.

Suddenly, the lizardoid scales are falling from my eyes...

Its up to us to make hating your own culture, the only one in the world and in history that gives a flying f about your liberal lifestyle, very uncool.

Self hating liberals need to be ridiculed out of existence.

They have slandered and insulted my SUV!

There will be riots!

/sarc

JammieWearingFool
you can have Jack

i'll take either (Ultra) Violet or DR Who.

either way the evil assholes will pay....

Democratic Party makes a run for the Baptist Church

[Link: www.indeonline.com...]

Carter, Clinton announce Baptist meeting as counter to conservative Southern Baptists

Stuck on stupid.

...and it's shitty art to boot.

He's got a fatwa now, because all representational art is haram.

He might as well go ahead and illustrate the life of Muhammad, or De Sade's 120 Days of Sodom.

#129 Salem

The fold-in shows Al Gore frenching George Soros.

That's the funniest "in-joke" comment on this entire thread.

It killed me.

So is that a job they show at the Islamic job fair.....Chicken, Stick Picker.... Heh Heh.

It's lovely kitsch, but I wouldn't know where to hang it...

Know what one crayon said to the other crayons in Norbert Kox's crayon box?

"We're gonna look like shit!"

#148 mesekwa:

I'm simply confounded that so many "left" leaning types claim to be so sensitive, artistic, and creative, when they are obsessed with negativity, self-hatred, and a morbid always-our-fault fantasy dimension of their own imagining. They can no longer appreciate beauty, see truth, or identify friend from foe. What happened to you guys?

That goes back a long way.

Learn something about the Dadaist movement that began in 1916:

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, which concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works....

According to its proponents, Dada was not art — it was "anti-art". Dada sought to fight art with art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art were to have at least an implicit or latent message, Dada strove to have no meaning — interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the viewer. If art is to appeal to sensibilities, Dada is to offend. It is perhaps then ironic that Dada became an influential movement in modern art. Dada became a commentary on order and the carnage they believed it wreaked. Through this rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics they hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics....

Marcel Janco recalled,

"We had lost confidence in our culture. Everything had to be demolished. We would begin again after the "tabula rasa". At the Cabaret Voltaire we began by shocking common sense, public opinion, education, institutions, museums, good taste, in short, the whole prevailing order."

You get nihilistic cultural and artistic movements like that every time Western society gets into trouble: World War I, the atomic bomb, Vietnam, and now the age of terrorism. Inevitably, some artists and intellectuals pounce on such troubles to conclude that society is too sick to survive, and hence must be overturned.

I still don't see where Jews are strangling Palestinians though. Somebody enlighten me please.

Ideological dimwits with crayons instead of creative individuals with real solutions to existing problems. Their stupid art solves nothing.

Dr. Manhattan (#141),

The color use is vulgar

it is executed with extremely bad taste

This sort of style was common...before the renaissance.

But other than that it pretty good right?

You can see his web site now: Profesional artists have been inspired to write lengthy reviews delving into the significance of Kox's compostion, subject matter, and historic tradition.

How on earth can these leftist twits hammer on Starbucks, Starbucks is as leftist kook as they come!

#154 rappmandu

"I could not concentrate on what this old man was saying…"

Sheesh.

Us rightwing nazi neo-con wingnut fascist fundamentalists are so BAAAAADDDD.

Run, little mousies, run.

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ! ! ! ! !

The Hamas suicide bomber is adorable!

A visual Nodrog

I've got it! A loser metal band's storage-unit practice-base!

Aren't Ahmedinegad and Kim wearing jock straps and having too much fun while riding the missile?

hmmmm.... no saint pancake she must be sooooo 2005

What's the deal with the two people and the shopping cart? What evil is that supposed to represent?

A modern day Hieronymus Bosch...not

I'm not exactly Salvador-f##kin Dali, but I would never let something like that leave my drafting table. It would be to me what the Star Wars Christmas special is to George Lucas.

#148

You and I got the same impression from it. Bosch comes right to mind. The difference between the two artists speaks everything about quality standards.

/and this jackass would probably call Bosch "a superstitious fundie"

Some contemporary art is extremely good lizards, see for example the work of Walton Ford

#17 Jape . . .

Just give me the link to the downloadable blacklight-inks-on-velvet painting.

You know...if I saw something like that painted on genuine black velvet for sale cheap in a flea market, I might just buy it.

#92 WrathofG-d
#181 zulubaby

Charles removed that reference from his comment over the picture. :)

I'm no shrink, but notice- visions of a life spent oscillating between opposites; one highly controlled situation or licentious addiction to another- childhood -> military -> booze -> biker gang -> drug overdose -> Pentecostal Christianity -> artistic delusion.

Next stop in the pattern is another situation of rigid social control requiring extreme conformity. Oh, I know, a whackjob religion/cult/social system. Can anyone fill in the next blank?

Nah. Too pat.

#188 jrdroll

A visual Nodrog

Gordon hasn't been quite himself, since Barbara Boxer took the one cairkooks award away.

He doesn't know what to do.

He loves Boxer, and he loves cair.

His world has been turned upsidedown.

Who is NukeDinerJaket humping on that Bomb..

Or is that goatman...

Yet another illustration of why Baha'u'llah warns us against "...the prostitution of art and literature..." (Advent of Divine Justice, Page 25)

#141, Dr. Manhattan

Yeah, comparing this to Bosch is an insult to Bosch...

It's like Bosch done by a baboon with crayons.

Aiyeeee!

I see Wal Mart, but where's Costco?

He is a devout Christian? And he is picturing Christians as choking muslims and Palestinians?

Okaaaay....

Reminds me of the inside of a Wal-Mart.

Typical NYC moonbat dreck that here in HillaryShumerland passes for an "art exhibit/event"

Ma Sands, I just checked and you're right -- thanks :-)

#204 Salem

Reminds me of the inside of a Wal-Mart.

how so?

#192 Zulubaby

My guess is, it's supposed to represent the evils of Amerikkkan capitalism---you know, all those awful Middle Class Philistines who shop at Wal-Mart when they should be giving their money to really important things---the "art" on display in this c****py poster, for instance.

We've missed ya! How've you been?

chow dog (#164),

Sorry man, I meant to explain that I was against strangling Mooslims before I was for it. Chickens too.

Anyone got a good recipe for chicken catchatori? I've had a hankerin' for that.

Introducing the Fine Art of Butt Painting

Outside of class and under an alter ego, the self-proclaimed "butt-printing artist" creates floral and abstract art by plastering his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas. His cheeky creations sell for hundreds of dollars.

This has not gone over well with Chesterfield County school officials, who placed Murmer on administrative leave from his job at Monacan High School.

. . .

A nearly naked Murmer expressed concern about remaining incognito during a 2003 appearance on the now-canceled cable television talk show, "Unscrewed With Martin Sargent." In a clip from the show, available on YouTube.com, Murmer dons a fake nose and glasses, a towel on his head, a black thong ¡ª and nothing else.

"I'm certainly proud of the ass painting," Murmer said in response to questions about his disguise. "I do have a real job where I do have real clients and I don't think they'd be too understanding if I was also the guy who painted with my ass."

/another moonbat artist, I wonder if they know each other?

Studying this painting reminds me to tell all you lizardoids that if you haven't read "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, you should do so now.

This painting reminds of a commentary the historian grandson of John Adams had on then President U.S. Grant. The subject was Grant's simple mind.

Grant once remarked with something to the effect of "Venice would be a beautiful city, if only it were drained."

Adams made the point that if Mark Twain had said this, it would have been counted among his greatest witicisms, but from Grant merely highlighted his simplicity.

In the same way this painting, if done purposefully as a joke, would truly be a hilarious bit of kitsch and self-deprecation. That it is not says so much about its creator.

#197 Manfred The Wonder Dog

Pentecostal Christianity

The goon from Wisconsin is as close to being a Christian, as ahmadinnerjacket is.

If he were truly a Christian, the leftist kooks wouldn't let him anywhere near them.

I pity the poor fool.

Yes, I removed the bit about "Jews strangling Palestinians" when I found the high-res version at the site. The cross on the guy in the center isn't visible on the lower res versions I had.

That poor Polar Bears ribs are showing..
That used to be an Iceberg and he has rode it for thousands of miles..

It pisses me that he didn't paint any seals or whales...

181: Zulu

I have come to the conclusion above in this thread that:

there are no Jews strangling "phakestinians" in this photo.

That "artwork" doesn't even measure up to Mad Magazine standards.

Back in the day there were cartoonists and there were artists. Now someone can take a dump on a pizza box and they'd call it art.

#210 Killian Bundy

Introducing the Fine Art of Butt Painting

Outside of class and under an alter ego, the self-proclaimed "butt-printing artist" creates floral and abstract art by plastering his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas. His cheeky creations sell for hundreds of dollars.

This has not gone over well with Chesterfield County school officials, who placed Murmer on administrative leave from his job at Monacan High School.

"I'm certainly proud of the ass painting," Murmer said in response to questions about his disguise. "I do have a real job where I do have real clients and I don't think they'd be too understanding if I was also the guy who painted with my ass."

/another moonbat artist, I wonder if they know each other?

Pretty much, if you're "proud" of something that you'd be embarassed to show your clients and that same something you're "proud" of got you fired from your job:

You're a total dumbass.

Michael Totten has a review of a new book, The Foreigner's Gift, by Lebanese-American writer Faoud Ajami. An exerpt:

"The justice of a cause is not a promise of its success," Leon Wieseltier wrote in the pages of The New Republic, in a reassessment of the Iraq war. For growing numbers of Americans, the prospects for "success" in Iraq look uncertain at best. Before success, though, some words about the justice of this war. Let me be forthright about the view that runs through these pages. For me this was a legitimate and, at the beginning, a popular war that issued out of a deep American frustration with the "road rage" of the Arab world and with the culture of terrorism that had put down roots in Arab lands. It was not an isolated band of misguided young men who came America's way on 9/11. They emerged out of the Arab world's dominant culture and malignancies. There were the financiers who subsidized the terrorism. There were the intellectuals who winked at the terrorism and justified it. There were the preachers -- from Arabia to Amsterdam and Finsbury Park -- who gave it religious sanction and cover. And there were the Arab rulers whose authoritarian orders produced the terrorism and who looked away from it so long as it targeted foreign shores.

It sounds very promising.

#42 Beagle . . .

I like it, in a simple-minded-keeps-them-off-the-streets way.

Me too. And, if you think about it, it also keeps them off the beaches, where they might lie down in giant letters forming the word "impeach," while wearing tinfoil hats.

196 Ma Sands:

Well that is good.
But now I am just going to look like a crazy person having helucinations based on my Zionism-obsessed world view when someone reads the thread.

Glad I didn't mention my past use of mushrooms :)

#207 tangonine 1/11/2007 06:01PM PST

#204 Salem

Reminds me of the inside of a Wal-Mart.

how so?

Crowded.

zulubaby (#158),

On second thought, it's hardly worth it for this dufus.

Unless you just want to get in some training rounds to break them in. ;-)

TalkinKamel, I have bronchitis but other than that I'm fine! LOL. How are you?

I smoked for a long time and stopped a year ago. Now, I get sick around smokers. It's the weirdest thing.

#223 Salem

#207 tangonine 1/11/2007 06:01PM PST

#204 Salem

Reminds me of the inside of a Wal-Mart.

how so?

Crowded.

LOL

Good point!

Leftists are inherently drawn to evil, and repelled by the good. They are also masterful, compulsive liars.

I've come to the conclusion that there isn't much we can do about leftists. Atheism afflicts a lot of people, and without God those people have no mooring and hence will rapidly degenerate into hate-filled enemies of all that is noble, beautiful and good. Since America alone possesses the formula for the good society it is up to the 50% of you who are not leftists to use your Second Ammendment right to ensure that the Left can never obtain that final toehold. For once the Left truly took America: Baphomet rules.

Attention: WrathofG-d is not a crazy person.

Or so he says.

WrathofG-d, check Charles' #215.

A masterpiece of aesthetics... Just like the Parthenon.

oh, I get it ... it's one of those graven images that the infidels make .... fatwa upon the infidel! All graven images are abomination!

The depths of delusional thinking in the art world is explored in a manner the artists did not intend.

continued,

My sense of Iraq, and of the U.S. expedition, is indelibly marked by the images and thoughts that came to me on six trips that I made to that country in the aftermath of the destruction of the regime of Saddam Hussein. A sense of America's power alternated with thoughts of its solitude and isolation in an alien world. The armies and machines -- and earnestness -- of a great foreign power against the background of a big, impenetrable region: America could awe the people of the Arab-Muslim world, and that region could outwit and outwait American power. The foreign power could repair the infrastructure of Iraq, and the insurgents could wreck it. America could "stand up" and train civil defense and police units, and they could disappear just when needed. In its desire to redeem its work, America could entertain for Iraqis hopes of a decent political culture, and the enemies of this project could fall back on a bigotry sharpened for combat and intolerance. Beyond the prison of the old despotism, the Iraqis have found the hazards and uncertainties -- and promise -- of freedom. An old order of dominion and primacy was shattered in Iraq. The rage against this American war, in Iraq itself and in the wider Arab world, was the anger of a culture that America had given power to the Shia stepchildren of the Arab world -- and to the Kurds. This proud sense of violation stretched from the embittered towns of the Sunni Triangle in western Iraq to the chat rooms of Arabia and to jihadists as far away from Iraq as North Africa and the Muslim enclaves of Western Europe.

210 KB
Roflol..

I am painting a picture of me in the mirror pissing in the sink..

Money to be made...

cont'd,

In the way of people familiar with modern canons of expression -- of things that can and cannot be said -- the Arab elites were not about to own up in public to the real source of their animus toward this American project. The great Arab silence that greeted the terrors inflicted on Iraq by the brigades of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi gave away the wider Arab unease with the rise of the Shia in Iraq. For nearly three years, that Jordanian-born terrorist brought death and ruin to Iraq. There was barely concealed admiration for him in his native land and in Arab countries beyond. Jordan, in particular, showed remarkable sympathy for deeds of terror masquerading as Islamic acts. In one Pew survey, in the summer of 2005, 57 percent of Jordanians expressed support for suicide bombings and attacks on civilians. It was only when the chickens came home to roost and Zarqawi's pitiless warriors struck three hotels in Amman on November 9, 2005, killing sixty people, that Jordanians drew back in horror. In one survey, conducted a week after these attacks by a public opinion firm, Ipsos Jordan, 94 percent of the people surveyed now said that Al Qaeda's activities were detrimental to the interests of Arabs and Muslims; nearly three out of four Jordanians said that they had not expected "at all" such terrorist attacks in Jordan. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's own tribe now disowned him and broke ties with him. He had "shamed" them at home and placed in jeopardy their access to the state and its patronage. But even as they mourned their loss, the old habits persisted. "Zionist terror in Palestine = American terror in Iraq = Terror in Amman," read a banner held aloft by the leaders of the Engineers' Syndicate of Jordan who had come together to protest the hotel bombings. A country with this kind of political culture is in need of repair; the bureaucratic-military elite who run this realm have their work cut out for them. The Iraqi Shia were staking a claim to their country in the face of a stubborn Arab refusal to admit the sectarian bias at the heart of modern Arab life.

Charles, lol, sneeeaky.

Geepers, whatever you wish ;-)

cont'd

It would have been heady and right had Iraqis brought about their own liberty, had they demolished the prisons and the statues on their own. And it would have been easier and more comforting had America not redeemed their liberty with such heartbreaking American losses. There might have been greater American support for the war had the Iraqis not been too proud to admit that they needed the stranger's gift and had the United States come to a decent relationship with them. But the harvest of the war has been what it has been. In Kurdistan, Anglo-American power has provided protection to a people who have made good use of this new order. There is no excessive or contrived religious zeal in Kurdistan, and the nationalism that blows there seems free of chauvinism and delirium. There's a fight for the city of Kirkuk, where the Kurds will have to show greater restraint in the face of competing claims by the Turkomans, and by the Arabs who were pushed into Kirkuk by the old regime. But on balance Kurdistan shows that terrible histories can be remade. In the rest of the country, America rolled history's dice. There is a view that sees Shia theocracy stalking this new Iraq, but this view, as these pages will make clear, is not mine. Iraq may not provide the Pax Americana with a base of power in the Persian Gulf that some architects and proponents of the war hoped for. America can live without that strategic gain. It is the Iraqis who will need the saving graces of moderate politics.

#210 Killian Bundy 1/11/2007 06:02PM PST

These sell for $600-$900 a pop? Why oh why can I not come up with a gig like this?

141, Dr M, wonderful. I was writing my bit when you posted. I completely agree. Like you, I'm in a world where I see a lot of this foolishness. It makes me sorry that talent is wasted... when there is talent.. and it makes me weary when the result is not even an honest attempt but plain filth or negativity.

180, good catch! I had conveniently pushed Dada out of my mind. It has become so wearying to me. I can understand where it came from and how it evolved.. but I hate what it did to modern art. I can understand why someone would have protested World War I, a very sad and needless conflict. But I cannot stand the rabid anti-war attitudes we are seeing today. How can someone be so utterly committed to the "other side" when the war is against theocratic extremists who hate free speech, creativity, individualistic identity, and most importantly hate music and art? What about the ruined, empty cliff alcoves in Afghanistan, where Buddhas used to stand?

Kenneth,

If I'd written that, I'd hang myself tonight. Thank GOD I'm not a simpering whiny assed liberal.

Caption: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KOSSACKS

Is that the new advertisement poster for the upcoming DNC convention in Denver?

adding that michael toten is not a liberal, but OMG he reads like one.

Pretty lame painting.

No offense to artists intended, but, I wonder if that sort of insanity explains why artists never seem to become leaders of countries.

Well, except for one instance I can think of.

#69 mbruce . . .

Still don't have the nads to put a pic of Mo in there,wimpy,wombly wambly little coward.

That is actually my basic test for people who think they're politically daring.

Anyone can make fun of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney, but would he/she make fun of Mo and his many murders, rapes, and enslavements?

Really nuanced. I can BARELY understand what they are saying.

Is that Ted Kennedy driving the Hummer?

Where are the piles of dung?

Here's Norbert's site if anybody cares to look at the other side of weirdo.

[Link: nkox.homestead.com...]

I see Mahmoud and Kim Jong Il riding a nuke. A Brokeback moment for them, it appears.

Heck, looks like heaven to me....

zulubaby (#236),

Since you're on the mend, maybe just a few practice swings for the camera. ;-)

I smoked for a long time and stopped a year ago.

Glad to hear it.

It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.

ZULUBABY

TALKINKAMEL

YAY THE GALS ARE HERE!

228: Charles.

Thank you.

Now I will give you my mother's phone number so you can convince her too.

#144 Roger

Yes.

Given them two, the earth cracking up, the about-to-explode jihadi behind the Russkies (?), the SUVs actually doing some good by running over various figures meant to be bad guys, and other non-American mayhem, I think we can fairly judge this painting not to be a leftist visual screed, but a pointless, mindless, meaningless, aimless, visionless piece of shite. I mean, let's be fair.

canadianally beat me to the link disregard.

Geepers, my friend told me I've turned into of those hideous ex-smoker people. LOL.

#253

The Defeeeeeeense of the Killer Tomaaaaaato!

WriterMama of The Fabulous Zionist Highlights, I don't think Kennedy drives so much as swims.

Without going into excessive detail about my own religion or family, I am not of the Jewish faith, yet members of my family are. I was sent this, and I like it:
[Link: www.aish.com...]

btw: What Christian did they use as a model for the "strangler" in that painting?

#260 zulubaby

Yes-I have to say it-the highlights are truly fabulous. I am having an excellent hair day.

Can't sleep, sweetie? Poor you-but fun for us!

For some reason I'm reminded of what Mark Twain said about the music of Wagner: It's probably better than it sounds.

#141 Dr. M

Indeed!

#253 Killer Tomato

It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.

Whoa, you're getting me hot. Meet me for private chat?
xoxoxo

/sarc

258 zulubaby

my friend told me I've turned into of those hideous ex-smoker people

It's good to be hideous. I'm hideous 5 years and lovin' it! Congrats!

Gee..The Art Directors Club sure thinks highly of itself..made Albrecht Durer's monogram their own (see bottom right of blowup). How very clever .

#253 Killer Tomato 1/11/2007 06:22PM PST

It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.

Yeah Man,

Dogs and Cats sleeping together,
monkeys and bananas peeling each other,,
Fng...
Mass Hysteria..

ec marm, I love the Aish website -- lots of interesting stuff there.

WriterMama, I slept for 3 hours :-(

Damn artists are fuckin' stupid.

Stick to the fingerpaints, fools

WrathofG-d (#255),

Sure, I can see it now:

"All my friends on the internet say I'm not crazy. You can ask them."

[]

"What?"

[]

"No, Charles isn't addicted to reefer pills. That was satire."

This looks great on a cell phone which is actually an IPod with an Mp3 player.
You can hear the SUV crunching the Arabs.
Bad.... Its only 2 inches square but BAD!

I think it's F-Art.

Intestinal Fortitude, yeah, I have to say that I'm totally in love with not smoking. WTF was I thinking!?

What is that symbol in the Mickey Mouse hat?

It looks like either a Mercedes sign (which I think would make little sense) or a Peace sign. (which would be very ironic)

Can anyone help me on this?

Wrath
(who is not crazy)

#253

OK, I admit it. I stole it from a play. The couple is in a museum looking at a painting. He asks her what it says to her. That's her reply.

His next line is: "What are you doing Saturday?"
She says: "Committing suicide."
He asks: "What about Friday night?"

#261 ec marm

That's a perfect example of what I mean when I talk about the Good, the Noble and the Beautiful.

Leftists are instinctively repelled by the ideas put forth in that little presentation of yours. Their basic reaction is typically scorn and mockery. But God will not be mocked, as they will learn in time.

#270 TMF

Stick to the fingerpaints, fools

Probably too complicated. Paint by numbers?

Thanks Charles for posting a higher-res pic.

Is that O'Reilly holding hands with Bush , Rummy, Cheney and the devil?

And it kinda looks like Bruce Lee back there in the corner by Starbucks. The hair looks too long tho.

KT

I thought that sounded like Annie Hall!

If you ever wanted to see Paris or Rome before you die, but haven't had a chance to do so, you might want to hurry.

Say Goodbye to Europe

#210 Killian Bundy (and Mandy and Minky and Mama Winger and Zombie the other gals on this site) (Zombie is a girl, right?)

HOLD THE TROLLY!

Killian's post has inspired me (it just took a few seconds, but, hey, art takes time to emerge to le artiste!) I suggest we do a montage inspired by the works of Killian's artist who introduced us to the Fine Art of Butt Painting using our money makers and we somehow turn them into Lizards and submit it for the contest! And if that doesn't work, we post it on a web site with a Million dollar price tag and put some big words in play to describe the painting like "One feels strongly the risk taken to create this, it left us exhausted and sobbing at the raw beauty and the tale it tells of racism and sexism and the money we spent on products to fight cellulite..." or we just have tfk do the write up, might be better that way

#280 Dar

You're good! It was from "Play it Again, Sam" - Woody Allen.

274 zulubaby

Good on ya. It's a trip when you can smell things those evil non-smokers can't.

Get one sense back that you haven't used is powerful, amazing at that.

(Zombie is a girl, right?)

Nobody knows. Except Zombie.

There are so many good artists, and this type of crap (IMHO) gets the attention. For shame.

Here is one I like. I should mention I'm very fond of illustrators, fantasy art, science fiction, etc.

Chris McGrath

He does cover art and also sells the prints for a reasonable price.

And of course, Boris Vallejo is an illustration god.