Offensive Portrait
Posted on | August 29, 2007
British artist Jonathan Yeo has assembled a collage depicting President Bush, using clippings from porn mags:
The work was unveiled yesterday at London’s Lazarides gallery, which explains the motivation behind the thought-provoking piece: “Yeo was commissioned to undertake a portrait of US President George W Bush, but was later told his services were not required. He decided to continue the commission on his own…”
According to the Sun, Republicans have reacted with predictable indignation. A spokesman for Republicans Abroad International said: “This will cause outrage in America. Some people will think it’s funny - but personally I think it is a cheap stunt.”
A spokesman for the Texas tentacle of the Republican Party chipped in with: “This picture is very distasteful. Why would anyone want to make a picture of our President from pornographic material?”
He’s right. Why debase pornography by using it to portray the most dangerous and incompetent president in living memory?
