George Bush Has Painted Over 50 Puppies

[flamingdem]

After an online hacker got his hands on self-portraits of former President George W. Bush in the shower, Fox News Atlanta tracked down his art teacher, Georgia-based painter Bonnie Flood.

Flood, who spent a month in Florida teaching Bush and his sister, says that the former President is a gifted artist and prolific painter of dogs — apparently, "he's painted over 50 pictures of dogs."

"It's amazing, hes going to go down in the history books as a great artist," she told Fox.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/george-bush-puppy-paintings-2013-3#ixzz2NjRYqyrm

[Gregorian]

1. He's trying to wash his sins away.

[flamingdem]

2. Only puppies are nice to him now nt

[Mnemosyne]

11. I doubt it. Remember him dropping poor Barney? Bet he has told his buds. nt

[Initech]

70. To quote Dexter: "Dogs aren't nice to me because of what I sometimes do to their masters."

George kind of does the same thing.

[movonne]

58. He will go down in history but not for painting...

[Katashi_itto]

63. Dont knock it. Lot of serial killers are known for the artistic endeavors.

Bush is in excellent company.

Clowns (John Wayne GAcy)


Bears (Gerald Stano)


Red Riding hood


Jesus (Perry Smith)
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[UnrepentantLiberal]

67. Manson

[Katashi_itto]

68. Thanks! I didnt know Manson drew

[UnrepentantLiberal]

69. Lots of artwork of his online.

[marions ghost]

3. A great artist & a great president

not.

[Helen Reddy]

4. Of course he can paint!

He "painted" us into a corner to go invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Yep, a real maestro he is.

[SirRevolutionary]

5. More hubris

from the shrub.

[lame54]

6. Before or after Cheney drowned them

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. All one color? Or did he buy a variety of rattle-cans?

Poor dogs.

[Ilsa]

16. Was he once in trouble for torturing cats?

If so, soaking the dogs with paint wouldn't surprise me.

[GoCubsGo]

53. No. It was frogs.

Fucking sick bastard used to shove lit firecrackers in them.

[klook]

8. Yard sale art at best.

Has he done any velvet paintings yet? How about decoupage?


Maybe he can get a get a sponsorship deal for Michaels or Hobby Lobby.

[Skidmore]

9. My initial thought was to wonder if this is the best he can do with his time

and to think of President Carter and his work. Then I realized it is probably a good thing he is holed up painting pictures of puppies because he did enough damage when he was in office.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Does the War Criminal, George W. Bush drop those puppy paintings too? nt

[Ilsa]

12. "Great artist", no Ms Flood, it's "great Con artist".

Has he been called redo the Sistine Chapel?

[flamingdem]

19. He's one step up from the woman who repainted that masterpiece!

[Ilsa]

13. Hey, George, my bathroom needs painting. nt

[TexasTowelie]

26. Do you actually want to stare at poodles on the wall

while you sit on the throne?

[brucefan]

14. I wish he would have

chosen painting over politics in the first place.

[leveymg]

18. They said the same thing about that Austrian "art student", didn't they?

[msanthrope]

52. I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. nt

[raccoon]

61. You beat me to the post; he came immediately to my mind too. nt

[pink-o]

83. It was in all of our thought bubbles! N/T

[Ter]

78. Do you know he was in the running for MLB Commishiner in the early 90's?

As a big baseball fan, he really wanted that job. He may have even been better at it than Bud Selig, who got the job and has always been controversial.

[leveymg]

15. Mental age of about 10.

His bathroom self-portraits reveal some other things about him that are decidedly less than benign.

[Ilsa]

22. Painting puppies seems like something

a grade-schooler would paint. What does he do with them? Hang them in Laura's boudoir?

[reformist2]

86. Exactly my thought as well.

[flamingdem]

17. An Art Critic weighs in..

New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz—no fan of the president while he was in office—nevertheless had high praise for his paintings.

“These are pictures of someone dissembling without knowing it, unprotected and on display, but split between the promptings of his own inner drives and limited by his abilities,” he wrote. “They reflect the pleasures of disinterestedness. A floater. Inert. The images of a man who saw the entire world from the inside but who finds the smallest, most private place in a private home to imagine his universe.”

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/11/george-w-bush-painter-in-chief/

[Recursion]

27. Saltz likes Bush's work

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/jerry-saltz-george-w-bush-is-a-good-painter.html?mid=twitter_vulture

I agree with him that the shower one is oddly powerful. I also like that church he was painting in the weight room.

[flamingdem]

29. A joke? Or he needs to be fired! nt

[Recursion]

31. I doubt it; they're surprisingly strong paintings for a beginner

The face in the mirror in the shower is particularly good -- just barely missing the viewer's gaze, half-furtive.

[MidwestTransplant]

56. I was surprised to find that I thought they were quite good too

[olddots]

20. Atleast he stays home

Imagine some fool paying to see him speak in an auditorium ?

[flamingdem]

30. It would be better if he had to wear an ankle bracelet

but at least he's contained now.

[Life Long Dem]

21. Some reason I read the title wrong

I thought it read Bush was painting on the dogs, (over dogs).

[woofless]

33. First thing in my head was,

"Why? What's wrong with their original color?"

[corneliamcgillicutty]

51. LOL!

[Recursion]

23. Decent eye for composition and color

Though the mental image I got when I saw the headline was much different and much funnier

[Initech]

24. Until he's in jail for war crimes, nothing he does will interest me.

[flamingdem]

28. I wonder if they would let him paint in prison

now that would be a humanistic gesture to this war criminal.

[Initech]

48. To use the teabaggers' favorite analogy - Hitler was an artist...

[OldDem2012]

25. Trashing this totally worthless thread. 3...2....1......adios! nt.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

32. Just when you think life can't get any weirder....

Suddenly Shrubya is painting cute puppies. Phase one of rehabilitating his image, to try to rescue the Teapublican brand from Bush backlash?

[Th1onein]

34. Has he slaughtered and eaten them yet?

Sorry, I didn't read the article; just the headline. I really don't give a fuck about George W.

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Those poor puppies! I hope the paint comes off OK.

Just what you'd expect from someone who used to blow up frogs.

Oh, wait ...

[gollygee]

36. I'm glad

He needs a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone.

[gulliver]

37. He's not going to be able to do human subjects well.

Puppies and the one self-portrait I saw (of his back and with his face shown in a small mirror) are exactly what I would expect from Bush. If he tries to draw people in a mature way, no matter how abstract, he risks a tidal wave of self-hatred and shame. It's hard to draw a species you don't really understand, and if he comes to truly understand human beings it will take a harsh awakening.

[apocalypsehow]

38. Good grief...*this* guy was in the Oval Office for eight years? It's a wonder President Obama

didn't inherit a worse mess than he did.

[Whisp]

39. he should be painting exploded frogs, the pyscho. n/t

[Octafish]

40. His self-portraits also are most revelatory.

Wherever he goes, and whatever he touches, smells of sulfur...



...and there isn't enough soap and water in the world that can rinse the stench away.

[flamingdem]

41. two faced, shifty eyed

avoiding the water, still stinking

[DevonRex]

47. I have a very different opinion

of W. from most people. And I agree, his self portraits are telling. Empty. I don't know if he was born empty or was forced to be a completely different person than he was meant to be and so he became empty. Either way...

[Newest Reality]

42. I'm not making

the usual "Hitler" comparison here:

Hitler started out as a mediocre painter wannabe, then went on to be a dictator.

Well, Bush was a mediocre, wannabe dictator type ... ah ... decider ... who has now become a hack painter. So, history reverses itself!

They do have that in common. We can only wish that both of them had stuck to painting and avoided any involvement in politics. The world would have possibly been a better place.

Oh well.

[JHB]

43. That's not too hard if you use a '1001 Dalmatians' poster as your canvas

[DevonRex]

44. With his paintings we have the first public display

of the solution to the puzzle. I know I cannot have been alone in seeing his public persona as a facade. His childish traits as an attempt to both fit his father's idea of him and to mock his father at the same time. The Iraq war as a tribute to his father and as a way of showing his father how easily he, the son, could get the US to go there and kill Saddam. And do something his father was afraid to do. And even have most of the blame be placed on Dick Cheney and not sully the Bush family name. Because isn't that what most liberals do? See Cheney as the mastermind and young George W. as an idiot?

I, for one, believe nothing could be further from the truth. It's all there in the paintings. The 2 of himself.

http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/jerry-saltz-george-w-bush-is-a-good-painter.html?mid=twitter_vulture

[sofa king]

71. I see what he's doing.

His self-portraits are of someone hiding in a very safe, very clean place. Because he will be neither of those things ever again. He can't look at himself, only parts of himself, because it's too painful to contemplate the whole of what he is and what he has done.

The one in the shower is particularly interesting. Pilots and snipers tend to have lower incidences of PTSD because they have some degree of "viewscreen separation" between themselves and the people they kill.

Here we have Bush using "viewscreen separation" so that he can look at himself... in a mirror... in a painting... and he didn't dare try to paint his own goddamned smirk.

I don't think Bush is hard to read at all. He publicly displayed every single one of the traits necessary for a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Now that he's lost all public respect, to the point where his own party begged him to stay out of the last Presidential race, he certainly fails to receive the level praise and adulation which he constantly demanded as President. His self-esteem is necessarily eroding as he watches a better President slowly undo the damage he caused.

Worst of all for him, he's left alone with his thoughts. Narcissists are not sociopaths; they are capable of empathy and remorse during "moments of clarity" in which they become aware of the sort of assholes they are. When that happens, they fall into deep depression, and stay there until those around him rebuild his self-esteem--whereupon he quickly decides once again that he's the shit and doesn't need those people who helped him.

I would imagine that Bush has gone through several cycles of drinking, depression, thoughts of suicide, and so on. He was probably talked into art therapy as part of his recovery--which will never be completed.

The release of the photos and the public scorn which will result isn't going to help him either.

Good.

[flamingdem]

75. Excellent analysis sofa king

I wonder if he's aware of the scorn .. let's hope so

[edbermac]

45. He's no Bob Ross.

Happy little trees...

[mattvermont]

46. that is as disturbing as John Wayne Gacey's Clowns

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=gacy+paintings&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=1-M1oHN9M6ujlM&tbnid=qoGPqwkmryKCLM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F23560793%40N07%2F3294725878%2F&ei=991EUeHrCtTK0gHnkYGADw&bvm=bv.43828540,d.dmQ&psig=AFQjCNEXuo4mFEvAGzd5X6sxfnynqpNrwg&ust=1363554106536431

[erinlough]

50. +1000. nt

[snooper2]

49. He's finally found his calling ROFL

I'll buy the one on the right for $25

[etherealtruth]

54. As if his presidency wasn't embarrassing enough

Argh!

[Marrah_G]

55. I am glad he is painting puppies

I am grateful that he no longer causing death and destruction around the world.

Keep painting W. You are doing great!

[bhikkhu]

57. If only rove had joined him

the world would be a better place.

I'm all for repugs getting out of politics and into puppy-painting!

[Warpy]

59. It's calendar art but he does have some talent

Too bad he didn't discover it when he was far younger. Think of what this country would have been spared.

He could have made a fine living doing portraits of the pets of the wealthy.

[RedCappedBandit]

60. Good

The more time he spends painting, the less time he has to spend forcing his fucking neoliberal agenda down everybody's throats.

[the devil]

62. I heard...

that Mitt Romney bought one of his paintings.

Strapped it to the roof of his car to take it home....

[nolabear]

64. It's his "Floating in an in distinct turquoise background" period.

[Iggo]

65. You know who else loved dogs?

Hitler.

[Jamaal510]

66. He was a crappy president,

but I can't hate on his paintings. I doubt I could paint puppies as well as he could. Looks like he may have found his niche outside of politics.

[spanone]

72. they look like grade school paintings

[Raven]

73. I bet he'd be great at painting clowns on a black velvet

background using himself as a model.

[eShirl]

74. I'm glad he has a hobby he enjoys.

Helps keep him out of mischief.

[greatauntoftriplets]

76. Did this woman teach him to follow the numbers?

[catbyte]

77. Wow, I hope the Nobel Committee is taking notice...

He was a pathetic president and he is even more pathetic now.

[tanyev]

79. Almost as good as Hiter.

[Tikki]

80. I wonder if boosh has painted any pictures of blair's poodle...

Tikki

[David Zephyr]

81. He should paint the faces of the 1 million dead Iraqi women, men and children that he murdered.

.

[deutsey]

85. I'm sure he, like his mother, would shrug that off and ask:

"Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

[Populist_Prole]

82. My own VERY conservative father is a great artist/painter

Looking at his work you'd think of him as a gentle easy going sort full of forbearance, and not the rabid belligerent teabagger he is.

Wasted talent.....sigh

[reformist2]

84. Bump

[madokie]

87. I wonder if he uses krylon or the cheap walmart brand

[Coyotl]

88. Horrible pResident, terrible artist, great war criminal,

who stole the White House from the People. That's the man's legacy