Brilliant: Conservative Politicians Inserted Into Modern Art

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The Drowning Governor, Roy Lichtenstein


REAGAN & THATCHER
The Defense Hawks, Edward Hopper


Cruz Diptych, Andy Warhol


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1. Melting Constitutions

“The Persistence of Liberty, Salvador Dalí”

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2. Thanks Octafish

I was hoping someone would add more

and peace,
kp

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3. Art changes people's worlds...

...outside and inside their heads and hearts.

NSA Lies - An Art Retrospective



New Chair at the German Universities
Photomontage for the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ, Prague, August 31, 1933) by John Heartfield

An Art Retrospective

NSA Lies

by KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
CounterPunch, WEEKEND EDITION AUGUST 16-18, 2013

James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, evoked Monet when, in fine impressionistic form, he said under oath that the NSA does “not wittingly” collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. As with 19th century Impressionism, the idea is not to portray the details of the subject, but its essence. Details include cumbersome specifics like facts and figures, which would only aggravate the public’s inexplicable mistrust of government; the essence, on the other hand, is much safer for consumption by the masses.

Not content to rest on his laurels, Clapper would try to push the boundaries of Impressionism when he later hedged that he’d answered in the “least most untruthful manner.” Incorporating elements of dark surrealism, he also said that Senator Wyden’s question—whether or not the NSA collects data on millions of Americans—was similar to asking, “are you going to stop beating your wife”? This is a “kind of question which is…not answerable necessarily, by a simple yes or no.”

Unfortunately, Clapper’s work has not aged well: 26 senators sent him a letter objecting to the use of what they called a “body of secret law”. Congresspeople have also called for his prosecution for criminal perjury. Yet, as with so many artists, Clapper is perhaps his own worst critic, having conceded that his statement that the NSA does “not wittingly” collect data on Americans was “clearly erroneous.”

Clapper has always refused to endorse any specific interpretation of his work, as evidenced by his defense of his “not wittingly” comment: “there are honest differences on the semantics…when someone says ‘collection’ to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to him.”

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/16/nsa-lies/

For the Record: Gen. Clapper is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

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4. Magritte does the Thief of Baghdad