It’s a shitty image but I googled and googled and I couldn’t find a better one.
Picture of Trump after the assassination attempt displaces Obama portrait at the White House. Trump broke some norms about hanging paintings.
I also googled the artist - Marc Lipp. I hoped I could find an interview or at least a quote by him about the painting. But I found nada.
It’s probably just AI trash and Mark Lipp isn’t real. Why pay an artist when you can blah blah
He’s a real guy. His typical style is gaudy and horrible “graffiti”-style crap featuring pop culture references - https://www.artsy.net/artist/marc-lipp
I assumed he’d be a yuge fan of Trump and he’d have a lot to say about the president. But I googled again and I couldn’t find a single word.
“What if I traced portraits and jokerfied them?” - Mark Lipp’s entire oeuvre
How much would it suck to be a real artist who has so little to express that people mistake you for AI?
I assume he wasn’t selling much so he painted the visual hagiography of Trump to build his brand to get some of that sweet, sweet “own the libs!” money from rich chuds.
I live in an touristy Southwestern American city renown for its art. Pffft. As you can imagine - the art is usually soulless and ranges in visual appeal all the way from bland to bad. Most of the time it has a Southwestern vibe because - of course - that’s what sells.
That is typical. It’s 36" x 36" and it costs five grand.
The bison itself is interesting and obviously drawing from Cubism. Pallette knife painting can be pretty challenging to do. Where it loses me is everything else. It needed to go all-in on the Cubism and knife work, including the background. The brushstrokes really distract from the work done on the bison and makes the painting look unfinished.
I fuck with this though
I mean stealing real artists’ shit is how you get ai