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Art and design Framing King Con: a look at the bizarre art inspired by the Republican candidate
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/17/art-inspired-by-donald-trump<snip>
Amber Jamieson
He’s no oil painting but Donald Trump has somehow morphed into the artistic muse of the year.
“Artists tend to be on the left and if there’s a polarizing figure on the right, you’re likely to get more of a reaction,” said the artist Alfred Steiner, curator of the Why I Want to Fuck Donald Trump exhibition, which opened on Thursday at Manhattan’s Joshua Linner Gallery.
“You could say George W Bush was similar, but I still don’t think he got the same … proliferation of artworks,” he said.
Similar to Trump himself, the art has been not only everywhere this election season but it’s often been focused on over-the-top public spectacles, designed to create a social media stir.
Such as the naked Trump statue, with a plaque that says “the emperor has no balls”, that popped up across the US – Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle – in August. In June, during Art Basel in Switzerland, a kneeling Trump sculpture, inspired by Maurizio Cattelan’s 2001 sculpture of a kneeling Hitler, was installed in a hotel.