Yes, the CNN fact checker not

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:28:49 +0000

In reply to THat's former CIA Director

Yes, the CNN fact checker not on the Twitter headlines, I guess; I just liked the "thieves" comment.

On the picture, from Artsy.com: it's not even the original, it's a repro:

Actually, the dining room artwork is a high-quality laser print. Thomas says he kept the original painting for himself. Anyway, Trump seems to have a fondness for facsimiles. He famously tried to convince journalist Tim O’Brien that the clearly fake Renoir hanging in his private jet was real.....

which is fitting, I guess, in that all he cares about visually is image, zero connoisseurship, kinda like the ultimate customer for Warhol, Trump is almost like a parody of what Warhol was thinking about, if one can imagine that.

If you read the whole thing, it kind of disappoints on the kitsch front, it's not the ultimate kitsch, as the nuance of the full story brings the kitschiness down a notch:

“The Republican Club” is part of Thomas’s series of politically bipartisan paintings, which include “The Democratic Club” and “Callin’ the Blue: Republican Presidents Playing Pool.” Critics have unfavorably compared Thomas’s work to Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s infamous and eternally-parodied “Dogs Playing Poker” painting series. Others have noted the similarly dull aesthetic style of Jon McNaughton’s overzealous right-wing oil paintings.

but only a few points. He's mainly an illustrator/cowboy painter after all, can't take that away from him.

THat's former CIA Director

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:06:11 +0000

In reply to No honor among thieves, eh?

THat's former CIA Director Woolsey - hardly the prototypical Trump lackey.

BTW, did you notice that CNN tweet that showed Trump actually hung that shitty painting with all the ex-presidents gathered around him? a rare touch for kitsch.

No honor among thieves, eh?

artappraiser — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:02:50 +0000

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No honor among thieves, eh? https://t.co/vxHq442b4G
— Christopher 'The Dead Walk' Federico (@ChrisPolPsych) October 19, 2018

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Yes, the CNN fact checker not

THat's former CIA Director

No honor among thieves, eh?