LDS Artist Reveals Newest Painting, 'Runaway Slave' | HuffPo

[_The Erotic Apologist]

Hmm...that "slave" looks a bit like Vladimir Illyich Lenin.

[_Chap]

Is painting lousy pictures one of the blessings?

In fairness, McNaughton's painting is technically very good. However, it's puerile subject matter does make it less than art. It reminds me a little of posters from the old Soviet Union. Pure, unabashed propaganda.

It is propaganda kitsch, pure and simple. I marvel that anyone can find a smidgeon of artistic interest in this waste of paint, canvas and time.

[_Bond James Bond]

Hmm...that "slave" looks a bit like Vladimir Illyich Lenin.

Or a Klingon with some reconstructive surgery:

[_bcspace]

It is propaganda kitsch, pure and simple. I marvel that anyone can find a smidgeon of artistic interest in this waste of paint, canvas and time.

Lefties, who typically close their eyes and cover their ears, understand Stalinist and Nazi propaganda styles. Hence the artist is merely communicating in a language they'll understand and be more likely to see and be drawn to.

[_The Erotic Apologist]

Or a Klingon with some reconstructive surgery:

I'm pretty sure Lt. Warf and Captain Picard were secret lovers...but we'll never know for certain because what happens in the holodeck stays in the holodeck.

[_The Erotic Apologist]

It is propaganda kitsch, pure and simple. I marvel that anyone can find a smidgeon of artistic interest in this waste of paint, canvas and time.

Not to disagree, but I've seen propaganda kitsch that was extremely well done, from a purely visually aesthetic standpoint. But you're right about Runaway Slave. It plain sucks.

[_The Erotic Apologist]

Lefties, who typically close their eyes and cover their ears, understand Stalinist and Nazi propaganda styles. Hence the artist is merely communicating in a language they'll understand and be more likely to see and be drawn to.

Which explains why the wind is bowing to the left, and why he's holding the torch in his left hand, and why the left side of the bridge is higher than the right, and why the big pointy phallic object (which symbolizes the entrenched phallocracy) is leaning slightly to the right.

[_3sheets2thewind]

Interesting that a slave should throw off his shackles in front of the Washington Monument which wasn't completed until 1884. Hmm.

Is he the same artist who did the cover for the July 2007 Ensign?

[_3sheets2thewind]

It is propaganda kitsch, pure and simple. I marvel that anyone can find a smidgeon of artistic interest in this waste of paint, canvas and time.

Lefties, who typically close their eyes and cover their ears, understand Stalinist and Nazi propaganda styles. Hence the artist is merely communicating in a language they'll understand and be more likely to see and be drawn to.

I was wondering when you come and defend the piles.

[_3sheets2thewind]

where is the chicken?