BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'

Subject: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 04:47 PM

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushIMP.jpg

I digitally "painted over" a previous picture entitled Posiden.

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 05:27 PM

ITS FREDDIE!!

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 05:54 PM

I like it.

Wish I could remember the name of the painting that Zeus is from? At least it looks like a small bit from that painting. No, brains racked and no result. I do remember that syphilis is humanly portrayed in it. Maybe I imagined it.

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:36 PM

Is that Zeus or "the spark of creation" from the Sistine Chapel?

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:41 PM

Ahhh, Donuel...

Like I hate to say this but as an artist myself, "The Smirt" seems a little on the smirkless side... Evil? Yeah... Smirkless... No....

Sorry, just one guy's opinion...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 10:09 PM

Donuel,

   I love your work...very creative and enjoyable...but I gotta be honest with you...while your artistry remains incredible (and I am jealous!), this one gives me the creeps!!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: freda underhill
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 10:14 PM

..as it should!

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 10:43 AM

mack I think you're right. I was thinking of the Allegory of Venus and Cupid. But having checked it out, it isn't Zeus. All these grey bearded guys look alike!

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 12:47 PM

Maybe Saturn Devouring One Of His Children?

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jul 05 - 01:47 PM

Thanks but Bobert is correct. The Mussolini like smirk was not achieved. The smug frown was changed to a grin of sorts.

I stole Michelangelo's Cistine Chapel ceiling painting of God reaching out to man and placed one outside each of W's ears.
"from Bush's ears to God's hand"

There is a huge skull looking out from this poster which one might not notice. I've edited this same picture 4 times over 2 years and still have more changes to do.

If this were done in oils it might be considered art but since it is done with photoshop overlays and smearing techniques it remains culturally in the same catagory as an Elvis on black velvet.

Subject: RE: BS: Portrait I call 'the smirk'
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 14 Jul 05 - 02:03 AM

That's the stuff of which dermatologist's dreams are made.

Stephen Lee