This is based on Goya’s famous painting “Saturn Devouring His Son”, if anyone was wondering.
One of my favorites. I wish we knew if that’s really what he intended to depict - people just guessed.
I dunno, I think that’s part of the magic of the Black Paintings. To me, what makes them truly unsettling (in the best way) is the fact that he painted them exclusively for his own desire and that we’re limited to guessing the subject matter (which, although ambiguous, was undoubtedly dark).
kolpeshtheyardstick made a pretty great video essay about the work and its historical context and cultural impact. (01:04:19)
I never heard about how it was made before and that really changed how I view the work.
Our nation not his.
Well…
Damn don’t do Cronos like that
Trump wouldn’t eat the flag, he’d use it to wipe his shit
Nah, he uses the constitution for that.
why do you think he’s eating it?
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Who painted this? I want to buy this painting.
Quite likely their initials are A.I.
Is there an artist or is this AI?
Ai, it’s a parody of a famous painting “Saturn devouring his son”.
I’m actually grateful that it is. I’d hate to think a human spent time on this. Imagine the psychological damage.
AI
The hand is pretty good for AI.
The top finger kinda gives it away imo
Knuckle too long, yeah, but a human artist could made that mistake too. Probably not one capable of painting that face, I suppose.
Good one. Not that I can do any better, but would it make more sense to put the statue of liberty there to better reflect the original inspiration?
I would have Trump raping the Statue of Liberty for both the truth and shock value.
Assault warning
Liberty and Justice being assaulted. Apropos. What really sucks is that these were made during his first term, which was nothing compared to the full-on fascist assault he’s doing now.
art is lies that reveal the truth
-some artist
Maybe you’re thinking Alan Moore in V for Vendetta?
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Definitely didn’t originate with Alan Moore. I’ve seen it attributed to Pablo Picasso but I think the first is probably Aristotle.
I was actually expecting it wasn’t him and was hoping that I would find the original when I searched it but he was the only one that showed up - for my query at least. Thanks for the extra info!
Cunningham’s Law:
The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.
If we ever have another elected president, I hope that one of their first acts after undoing literally everything that the orange menace has done is to replace every picture of trump in any government building with this.
Gonna need fundamental change to make the president less powerful and make it so that no one party ever holds a majority in Congress ever again. The first would follow the second, so we should be pushing for something like Sequential Proportional Approval Voting for every legislature we got.
Start with reforming the ways your elections are held. To the rest of the world it seems like a 250 years old system to keep those with money in power. I thought the american revolution was held to get lost of a king and his henchmen?
You’re going to have to get more specific if you want a response beyond “yeah man, it is 250 years old.”
I’m sure there are quite a few people that would love to see him choke on a flag.
I think a lot of alcohol poisonings will happen on the day he dies.
I’d watch that Seven death a lot.
