Actually, this looks more like a bust of a slave than that of his fem idol.
Posted by RD at September 20, 2008 9:33 PMNow all he needs is to commission Jill Greenberg to photograph it.
Posted by Connecticut Yankee at September 20, 2008 9:45 PMAhhh - this Edwards is really with the program. Highly sophisticated. Glorious proof of Obama's admonition that we stupid Americans need to master other languages. After all, one French expression for taking a dump is "couler un bronze" - casting a bronze.
Posted by Wim de Vriend at September 20, 2008 10:44 PMAhhh - this Edwards is really with the program. Highly sophisticated. Glorious proof of Obama's admonition that we stupid Americans need to master other languages. After all, one French expression for taking a dump is "couler un bronze" - casting a bronze.
Posted by Wim de Vriend at September 20, 2008 10:44 PMIs this, perhaps, the same sculptor who did a bust of Hillary Clinton a while back? The one with a carved lace bra (?? - !), and that made her look unaccountably and frighteningly like Jimmy Carter?
Posted by jaed at September 20, 2008 10:50 PMThis reminds me: I caught a brief glimpse of Barack out of character the other day. As he walked across a stage to greet someone he forgot who he wants everyone to think he is and I swear he walked just like a million other cocky black guys I've seen on the TV. No doubt the walk has a name but I'm Canadian.... Anyway, Obama is so cool he should be in the movies.
Posted by sgi at September 20, 2008 11:20 PMAt first glance without any coffee this AM, my thought was "HR Giger."
Posted by Clayton Barnett at September 21, 2008 6:12 AMDid anybody else think "bride of Frankenstein" when seeing that hairdo? It even looks like it has the stripes in the side.
It's always amusing though, to watch 'artistes' beclown themselves so.
Posted by Eric Blair at September 21, 2008 6:49 AMI'll take a steaming cup of narcissism and two boxes of eloi to go, if you please. Don't forget the chop sticks!
Posted by TmjUtah at September 21, 2008 7:42 AMI wonder if the artist was influenced by the Rolling Stones' Down Home Girl?:
Lord I swear the perfume you wear
Was made out of turnip greens
And everytime I kiss you girl
It tastes like pork and beans
Even though you're wearin' them
Citified high heels
I can tell by your giant step
You been walkin' through the cotton fields
Oh, you're so down home girl
Shouldn't there be 57 stars?
Posted by TerryH at September 21, 2008 9:51 AMI guess being able to tell the difference between feces and art is not a qualification to be an art critic nowadays, or an artist either. Feh!
Posted by pete at September 21, 2008 10:55 AMWhen will the elites quit picking on white stay-at-home mothers? Marge Simpson figures that imitation may as well be flattery. I think the 18th-century Baroque wig with the bird on top is hilarious on the Marxist Obama who holds all things from that era of slavery in contempt. And the boobs: this artist sculpts one-size-fits-all recycling his Oprah boob-mold to reproduce Michelle's the same AS IF!!! So when his third black mistress bust appears, here come the same ol' set of boobs again, and again...
Posted by maverick muse at September 21, 2008 5:04 PMNever in my wildest delusional moments, would I EVER confuse her with Jackie O.
Posted by Obi's Sister at September 21, 2008 6:47 PMThe idea that anyone would ever confuse Jackie O with Michelle "man-hands" Obama is laughable.
Posted by Blarg the Destroyer at September 21, 2008 7:03 PMThe best book on the scam of modern art and modern art criticism I ever read was Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word".
Posted by Yanni.Znaio at September 21, 2008 7:37 PMGood one, Bob - I think it needs to go in a post one of these days.
Posted by Julie at September 22, 2008 10:41 AMYou can work wonders in PS CS3, and I have. The gal now sports an Islamic Flag and, of course lipstick minus the US flag.
Someone had to do it and a low-life me did do it.
I guess I have no values.
That Giger comment was spot-on. The resemblance is amazing, even terrifying....
http://www.giger.com/Alien/Images/Alien03big.jpg
Posted by MarkJ at September 22, 2008 1:58 PMYou say: "Click to enlarge".
Do I have to? It seems to me that she thinks she's quite large already.
Posted by azlibertarian at September 23, 2008 8:11 AMThat would be 58 stars on the Obama-for-Amerikkka flag, if you please. And that is no hair-do on MO's sculpture, that is an elephant's foreskin she is wearing.
Hubris, thy name is Obama.
Posted by twolaneflash at September 23, 2008 2:38 PMI don't know about the Marge Simpson comparison, but I personally like the bride of Frankenstein one.
But seriously, the very first thing I pick up when I saw this - and probably many other people knowledgeable in esoterics - is the beehive hairdo: bees are a life generating symbol in Camites mysticism, a royal symbol of dynastic pharaohs in Egypt and Europeans royalties - like Napoleon in his coronation garbs - have also used the bee symbol.
Edwards' queen bee bust is obviously loaded.
