((All Below Forwarded))
From: "Daniel St. Clair"
Subject: Hi Stang, I found something very bulldada...
You know that right-wing hick artwork that you will often see at gun
shows or flea markets? The stuff that is usually nothing more than a
bunch of sad ripoffs of Boris Vallejo and Frazetta work, only with
heads of politicians superimposed over the badly-drawn heroic
barbarians?
Well, some guys on the somethingawful.com forums found one such an
artist. His site is here: http://www.creativepatriot.net/artWork.asp
Aside from featuring the usual pletero of sadly pathetic flag-fetishism
and desperately sloppy carnival-airbrush quality art, he also has a
couple images that are truly worthy of the title of "bulldada."
Specifically, this image in particular:
http://crass.coopertx.us/nunzios_pride.jpg
Squashing a three-legged dog in the left of a composition with a
symmetrical abstract background is bad enough, but putting him on
precarious stilts that defy the laws of physics, giving him an ineptly
rendered "noble" expression that comes off more as "doggy's
constipated" or "get me down from here!", and then strapping a leather
wife-beater belt with a metal peg in which an
obviously-copied-from-a-photo flag has been driven in that BLOWS IN THE
BREEZE over this poor precariously balanced dog just completes it.
This is true bulldada at work. Sheer unintentional mindfuck hilarity
at its best.
Also, there's this confusing image:
http://www.creativepatriot.net/myImages/thank_you.JPG
And this laughably typical frazetta/vallejo ripoff:
http://www.creativepatriot.net/myImages/guilianiPainting.jpg
(Appropriately, it's hung behind the counter of some no-name booze
joint.)
And this "classy" piece of pseudo-patriotic neo-fascism:
http://www.creativepatriot.net/myImages/heads.jpg
And this bald eagle who looks strung out on cocaine:
http://www.creativepatriot.net/myImages/parkingLotFlag.jpg
Anyway, though you might enjoy that.
--
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com
For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
or email: je...@subgenius.com
PRABOB
DUBYA TEE EFF. I don't know what I like but that is art.
Feh.
It would be an interesting little gag to look at if the symbolism
wasn't relatively transparent.
The flag on the ocean represents "America, mighty from sea to sea".
The tractor represents industry and agriculture. The plane represents
military might.
So, "thank you to the army and industry for kicking butt and making
America great".
The end.
The clouds look ridiculously flat. Five bucks says he used some
models and a projector. A mirror, a model of a tractor and he dangled
the plane from a string, with the clouds on a backdrop. Then he
projected the image or a photo of it and worked on top of that.
If the image were enigmatic, I would agree with you.
--
Bëelphazoar
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
"NOT ONE RED CENT FOR ENTROPY!"
- ggg
Airplane is pointing wrong direction.