Neocon Series: Rumsfeld. A One Day Painting.

Thanks for posting this Dennis, Monet would be proud, the one day, one hour, painting. Wonder how this painting would look today.

Wonderful work.

Forest

I like it, I think you captured his general look.

I'm curious about your method. Would you say you had any trouble scanning the acrylic image? Do you have your own scanner?

In the past I've wondered about how well scanning acrylic art works as far as color transfer goes.

Well done --- unfortunately I am unwilling to bid on a Rumsfeld.

But very talented

innovative, creative idea...i like it

Dennis- excellent painting of a neocon monster. Those brainwashed by the racist, lying, holocaust-denying, corporate mainstream media might see a determined man who firmly believes in what he has been doing but has ultimately been brought down.

However those who take seriously the demographic data of top US medical epidemiologists and biometricians, UN demographers and UNICEF will realize that this man (together with Bush, Cheney, Dr Rice (Dr Death, Wicked Witch of the West), Blair, Racist White Australia's Howard and the New War Criminals running Germany, Holland, Japan and like countries of the US Alliance) is complicit in post-invasion deaths in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan totalling 0.9 million and 2.1 million, respectively, due to gross violation of the Geneva Conventions - 3.0 million post-invasion excess deaths or one thousand (1,000) times the number of people murdered on 9/11 (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10528/42/ ).

Seen in the light of horrendous mass paedocidal reality (rather than that of mainstream media holocaust-denial) - 1.6 million under-5 infant deaths in Iraq (population 28 million) since America started bombing, sanctions and continuous killing in 1990 as compared to 1.5 million Jewsih children murdered by the Nazis in WW2 out of a global Jewish population of 15 million - the painting has powerful thematic elements relating to war and evil.

This indeed a powerful portrait of a monster - but a monster who is supported by the Racist Religious Right Republican Bush-ites or roughly half of the voting population of the United States.

Thus: blue/sky, yellow/desert, Iraq, Middle East, black/oil, ash; smashed glass/end of career, destruction, weapon image, guns, violence, wanton destruction; one eye open & one eye closed/deception, dishonesty, spin, fanaticism, certitude, glare, hatred, bigotry, racism; yellow teeth/dog teeth, savagery, mad dog, rabid dog, violence, implacable evil.

I think this is a very powerful image. I'm not very political and haven't really followed the war closely. This means I don't really have a well formed personal opinion of Donald Rumsfeld.

I don't think I like him, but after seeing this painting I'm sure I don't. He looks so angry. The sort of anger you can't reason with. He looks like he's accusing me of something. It's a little bit scary and unsettling.

I think the colours add to my feeling of repulsion. The unhealthy grey, the sickly orange. The red lines make him look like he's about to burst a blood vessel.

The broken glass makes me think that either people have thrown stuff at him because they hate him and he's protected behind glass, or he's shouting so loud that he's cracked some glass.

"As you know, you go to war paint with the Army easel you have. They're not the Army easel you might want or wish to have at a later time." Rummy.

I think you've captured the essence of the man quite well, Dennis: jaundiced, angry and shattered! Perhaps this is coloured by my opinion of the man, but I expect he's in the process of telling another lie...

Dennis ,

what/who is your next subject?

When I first saw the painting you presented above I 1) Immediately knew you had done it. 2) Thought Wow that piece feels like I feel inside when I think about D. R.. 3) It was as though I had spoken about it out loud without having to utter a word. 4)Fantastic! 5) I'd be willing to bet that this series will be huge, not in size but in interest. In years to come I think we will see them quite a lot.

That's a very good painting and although I've come to this group late (so I don't know if you sold it or not), I would be willing to buy it.

our fragile fractured existance. those are the words that come to mind when i saw your painting. that's how i feel sometimes. like you're looking at the world through a broken pair of glasses. what you see is still a whole but formed from shattered parts. i think the color organization lends a sense of calamity to the piece—great discords.

Hi, Dennis,
Read about your show in Ankara coming up -- congrats -- and so decided to go back to the first painting in series as well as the whole set to get the overall view.
Some commenters see broken glass in your painting but I see the explosion or detonation of bombs -- the 'shock and awe' that so many in the Defense Dept. are so fond of. Is that what you intended by the jagged shard-like images?
I am not able to ID any hidden shapes in the images -- I suspect there may be outline of maps of Iraqi regions or cities but I don't recognize them. Can you give out free answers or hints?
You should really consider selling prints rather than the originals to these paintings. You would make far more than selling the original, and I bet lots of Viners would love to hang a print of yours at home and tell about the painter and subject to anyone who visits!