So this is how the GOP makes money....

By GottaLaff

So this is how they do it:

Help the Republican Party of FL Get Our Money Back!

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Here's how they describe the painting. These are some hot selling points:

Privately Commissioned, High Quality, One of a Kind, Genuine Oil Painting on Fine Linen Canvas

★Canvas is naturally sensitive to changes of temperature and humidity, just as the Charlie Crist’s political convictions are subject to fluctuations in poll numbers.

★Depending upon variety of conditions, the stretch canvas may periodically lose and regain tautness, much like Charlie Crist periodically loosens or regains positions on a variety of issues.

★Ornate gold frame made of manufactured wood, similar to the fabricated conservative values of the politician depicted within.

Estimated Value – PRICELESS!

(originally commissioned and purchased by the Crist/Greer RPOF administration)

H/t: Taegan

Glenn Beck painted with bulls**t...literally

By GottaLaff

If the poo fits:

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The caption says: Glenn Beck - 2009 - bull s**t and pigment on canvas 48” X 67”

Talk about a bulls**t artist...

All the presidents' girlfriends

By GottaLaff

Go here if you want to see who the presidents were into (hint: JFK's name pops up a lot):

British artist Annie Kevan painted a portrait of every presidential girlfriend on record.

Here's a sample:

Sally Cary Fairfax (George Washington)
2009
Oil on paper
50 x 40 cm

World's worst Obama paintings

By GottaLaff

Via Wonkette:

Many more insanely terrible paintings can be found at this website linked here. [Bad Paintings of Barack Obama]

Wow:

I've seen better art on cereal boxes.

VIDEO-- "Cavity Search": Naked Blagojevich Painting By 'Nude Sarah Palin' Artist

By GottaLaff

Remember the artist who used his daughter as a body model for his nude Sarah Palin portrait? I guess ol' Bruce Elliott has an obsession with dishonest naked politicians:

"I did Palin naked, I should do Blagojevich naked."

That quote speaks for itself. This is a family blog, so no Rod jokes.

A nude portrait of the governor, by artist Bruce Elliott, is nearly complete and will hang on the wall of Elliott's wife's bar, the Old Town Ale House, next to his infamous depiction of a naked Sarah Palin. It is the next installment in what Elliott loosely calls his "nude governor series."

Elliott cites many sources of inspiration for the painting, which shows the governor, who was arrested last week on corruption charges, preparing for a potential first day of incarceration. Among them: the extent of the governor's alleged misdeeds and the artist's desire to respond to criticism from Republicans and women about the Palin portrait by painting a Democrat in the buff. [...]

The scene imagines Blagojevich handcuffed and wearing an orange jumpsuit pulled down to his knees.

Among the onlookers is a guard, with a look of grim determination, pulling on a rubber glove.

The painting, which is taking Elliott a little over a week to finish, is titled: "The Cavity Search."

Now Blago can honestly say, "Hey, youse guys! I was framed!"

The audacity of a painting called "Hope"

By GottaLaff

Inspirational:

[I]n the past two weeks, this cozy little art gallery nestled in central London has attracted a growing trickle of visitors in search – literally – of hope.

In this case it takes the form of a painting which may have helped inspire Barack Obama.

Entitled "Hope," the canvas hanging inside London's Guildhall Art Gallery as part of an exhibition by Victorian painter George Frederic Watts might appear unremarkable to some.[...] [I]t depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.

Obama's controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright invoked the image as a symbol of inspiration during a sermon in Chicago 20 years ago.

The harpist, he preached, "is sitting there in rags ... her clothes are tattered as though she had been a victim of Hiroshima… [yet] the woman had the audacity to hope."

The imagery stayed with Obama. [...]

Staff say they are surprised at the level of interest in the current Watts exhibition, and specifically in "Hope," and insist that the timing of the exhibition was purely coincidental.

Thanks to its "Obama connection," which has been reported in a few articles in the British press, the exhibition has sparked interest not just among art lovers but among those who normally care little for a few brush strokes. [...]

As an admirer of Watts, the US president-elect will have ample opportunities to admire the latter, which the Englishman gave to the American people.

Where was it eventually installed on the orders of Theodore Roosevelt?

The White House.

So whaddya think... will it make its way on to coffee mugs and tee shirts now that a very popular Barack Obama is president?