I don't really know how to introduce this

[Moliere]

I've talked about my ADHD problem a couple of times. Are you making fun of me? Daring me to do something you know I'm not capable of... And I counter your dare with an invitation to study the subtlety of golf humor, and the effects of gravity on stationary objects.

I think it's supposed to show that he just barely set his clubs down and gravity has not yet made them turn correctly. Either that or McNaughton doesn't believe in the theory of gravity because it's still only a theory.

[Solon]

I think it's supposed to show that he just barely set his clubs down and gravity has not yet made them turn correctly. Either that or McNaughton doesn't believe in the theory of gravity because it's still only a theory.

My current favorite is the Christmas Tree.

The ornaments:

1. The Crescent of Islam (instead of a star on top)
2. Flag of Kenya (Obama's "Homeland")
3. Flag of Saudi Arabia
4. Flag of Turkey
5. Flag of Egypt
6. Muslim Brotherhood
7. Chairman Mao

Rat under the tree.

[TripletDaddy]

I have a Chairman Mao x-mas ornament!

[Solon]

I have a Chairman Mao x-mas ornament!

That doesn't surprise me. You probably also have a football and golf clubs.

OBAMANATOR!!!!!!!!!!

I almost added that I bet you have a giant rooster too

[clackamascoug]

I can't decide which metaphor is my favorite.

Maybe the soldier eating gay-wedding cake.

Or perhaps the illegal immigrants fleeing the Arizona flag for the Mexican.

It's not a great image, but the glowing commentary associated with the Hosni Mubarak portrait brought an LOL out of me. Especially when it mentions the "Shaw" of Iran.

Is that Brian (the LA Laker), or George Bernard?

My favorite is Alfonso Ribeiro of Fresh Prince looking for a job. I don't think his acting was that bad, but then again, he's never caught on like Will Smith did.

[Omaha 680]

So is the guy under the desk giving or receiving the classified military intel? And what is he doing down there?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I think it's supposed to show that he just barely set his clubs down and gravity has not yet made them turn correctly. Either that or McNaughton doesn't believe in the theory of gravity because it's still only a theory.

[TripletDaddy]

I think it's supposed to show that he just barely set his clubs down and gravity has not yet made them turn correctly. Either that or McNaughton doesn't believe in the theory of gravity because it's still only a theory.

You may be confusing scientific theory with hypothesis.

[wuapinmon]

You can't see the ocean in that painting. Maybe Obama was right.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I saw this guy interviewed once. I'm telling all of you, he's in on the joke. He just didn't seem like a total rube.

[Solon]

Article in the most recent Sunstone by Robert A. Rees about McNaughton's art as propaganda.

https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/jon...-propagandist/

It's better online than in print because the pictures are in color.

[McNaughton said,]"The inspiration for his painting “The Forgotten Man” “came after I prayed regarding the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [“Obamacare”]. I think that the Lord often waits for us to simply come to Him and ask the question . . . what should I do?” The answer, he says, shook him “to the very core!”

Interestingly, at the BYU Museum of Art hang three of a series of paintings by Maynard Dixon also titled “Forgotten Man.” As McNaughton was an art and design student at BYU, these could not have escaped his notice. Ironically, these paintings, which Dixon rendered during the 1930s and 1940s, reflect Socialist and New Deal ideology. McNaughton’s appropriation of Dixon’s graphic rendering of despair and hopelessness caused by the Great Depression is especially troubling because he uses it to convey ideas diametrically opposed to those in Dixon’s paintings. Dixon and his second wife, the photographer Dorothea Lange, were both interested in social realism and the sympathetic portrayal of Americans adversely affected by the economic and social upheaval of the period.

“The Forgotten Man” by Maynard Dixon





“The Forgotten Man” by Jon McNaughton

[DU Ute]

What a hack.

[wuapinmon]

Article in the most recent Sunstone by Robert A. Rees about McNaughton's art as propaganda.

The difference, for me, between the two paintings is the use of light and shade and palette in the former to make me look upon a pitiable fellow and feel something resembling sorrow for him, almost empathy.

In McNaughton's, that feeling is not conveyed. The guy looks middle class, not homeless. The palette is not muted. The lighting looks like a Puff Daddy video, and there's not a similar response. I don't think it's all that controversial for him to feel inspiration from these paintings, to even try and subvert their prior symbolism by re-invigorating the debate. But, the art is not as good technically as the original. McNaughton can paint, but he's not really an artist that I identify with at all.

[Donuthole]

So does he have a new URL? Because http://www.mcnaughtonart.com doesn't get me there anymore.

[Northwestcoug]

So does he have a new URL? Because http://www.mcnaughtonart.com doesn't get me there anymore.

He's being silenced!