tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post7562841618529044901..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: Other Obamanation posters.Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-51622756278497429522009-08-17T08:34:32.247-05:002009-08-17T08:34:32.247-05:00"[P]icture him as a pimp hat complete with pe..."[P]icture him as a pimp hat complete with peacock feather."<br /><br />That's not too bad for a first effort. It's a little weak on political connotation, though.<br /><br />MALTHUSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-90284528577095441812009-08-16T18:14:26.411-05:002009-08-16T18:14:26.411-05:00Obama as an abstraction...
Picture a chocolate br...Obama as an abstraction...<br /><br />Picture a chocolate brown tampon. No? <br /><br />How about, in Trudeau fashion and picture him as a pimp hat complete with peacock feather. No?<br /><br />Can you abstract a vagina???Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14164081904366127389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-72724585342218144572009-08-16T09:14:40.973-05:002009-08-16T09:14:40.973-05:00The Shepard Fairey "Hope and Change" pos...The Shepard Fairey "Hope and Change" poster is powerful modern-day iconography. Obama looks steely-blue resolved, redly empathetic and the wig-powder white hints at his aristocratic transcendence.<br /><br />The O-Joker poster forcefully deconstructs the Obama myth, picturing him instead as a smirking sociopath.<br /><br />There is a lesson to take from this iconoclastic broadsheet. <br /><br />In Stalin's Russia and Mao's China, The Great Man's picture was everywhere, suggesting Big Brother saw and knew whatever you did or thought, and while he was a loving father-figure, malingerers and wreckers were judged without mercy.<br />These posters were a powerful force for social control.<br /><br />If Stalin or Mao's socialism had been artistically represented as an abstraction (as a hammer and sickle, for instance) their immediacy (and psychological control) would have been significantly reduced.<br /><br />Goal: Reduce Obama's persona to an abstraction. Political cartoonist Gary Trudeau does good work in this arena, if you haven't noticed. Dan Quayle is reduced to a disembodied voice, George Bush 43 is a feather.<br /><br />The patriot movement has ample talent for the task at hand. Let the art show begin.<br /><br />MALTHUSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com