The tackiest painting in the world's history unveiled in L.A.

[Botany]

http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/07/08/royals-glow-in-the-dark-on-canvas?videoId=216867921&videoChannel=4 video

Diana as an angel looks down on Will and Kate and baths them in a heavenly light. :puke:

[XanaDUer]

1. That one of Northern-European Jesus holding the Constitution

is worse, imho. This one is pretty bad. Maybe that's the point?

[rocktivity]

10. WARNING: This link contains material which may not be suitable

for art lovers.

:puke:
rocktivity

[pipi_k]

20. Bwahahaaah!!!!!

Jesus holding the Constitution!

:rofl:

[Amaril]

40. And...........

....Lincoln's doing a vaudeville number, complete with jazz hands??

This guy has definite issues.

[Mendocino]

88. Its looks like Abe is singing

Mammy or maybe Bye Bye Baby.

[arikara]

58. It is totally hilarious!

That Jesus looks like a hero on the cover of a bodice ripper.

[pipi_k]

89. "Love's Savage Communion"...

"Oh God, I'm Coming Now"

"Jesus Rides An Ass Into Jerusalem"

"Palm Sunday and The Virgin"


in a bookstore near you.

:7

[XanaDUer]

70. My fave character (it's like the Sgt. Pepper's cover, but for loons)

is the pregnant lady on the right side, pointing at the judge with his face in his hands.

Has something to do with abortion rights.

[PassingFair]

101. If you liked that painting, you will LOVE Number 2 in the series:

http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=379

Check out Madison's face and stance as Obama steps on The Constitution.

OMG!

:rofl:

[suffragette]

107. And Ronald Reagan pleading the case of the common man

As if.

[Mendocino]

105. Where's Waldo?

[pinboy3niner]

109. LOL!

That would have been a nice touch. :rofl:

[dixiegrrrrl]

82. oh cool. You can mouse over each figure and it explains "the symbolism" of them.

[XanaDUer]

96. Rght. On the left side, the female teacher appears to be good

Our left, not Jesus' left.

On the right side, the college professor seems to be bad. He's next to Mr. Hollywood. The professor is part of the "liberal elite".

Right.

[name not needed]

91. I prefer this one, myself.

http://omglog.com/thomas/archives/4083

[pinboy3niner]

94. Cthulhu! And another connection to the Royal Family...

Facebook: Cthulhu hat a bold choice for royal wedding
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/04/29/6556070-facebook-cthulhu-hat-a-bold-choice-for-royal-wedding

[nolabear]

114. See, now this is the value of historical art.

I had no IDEA Nathan Hale looked just like Han Solo.

[Le Taz Hot]

117. Oh, goddess!

It's my own fault. I clicked on it.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, that IS truly awful.

You're absolutely right. Now, I shall have to cleanse my eyes by viewing a photo of Pippa. :rofl:

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. is is super tacky. Is it painted on velvet?

[KurtNYC]

120. You should see it under a black light!

I'm having that painted on the side of my 1977 Chevy Luv!
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(not)

[Buns_of_Fire]

121. Can't be. If it's on black velvet, it MUST have Elvis in there somewhere.

But I think it's allowable to have little pinhole lights poking through it at strategic spots.

I love tacky. I hope they make a sweatshirt version of it available.:-)

[flamingdem]

4. tres cool/tacky love it nt

[JHB]

5. I can deal with obsessed individuals...

...it's when they get together and groupthink themseves into believing it's just peachy to celebrate their morbid obsessions that blow my appall-o-meter off its scale.

[Lucinda]

6. There is actually some skill there - but the tacky - it hurts! n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. The kate and Will section looks like photographic collage work

[Tutankhamun]

8. Here's a riddle: What does not belong

in this painting?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

35. His rug?

[Tutankhamun]

64. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Please accept this lovely gift, "Dogs Playing Poker!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vCJ5ph6Hw5w/S6O0nJCp6-I/AAAAAAAADwc/nG4lZ1H36mE/s400/dogs+poker.jpg

[A-Schwarzenegger]

67. Thank you, but I already have that one.

I'm staring at it right now above my computer.
Like the Royal Couple, it inspires me to be
more than I can be.

[H2O Man]

42. the picture

[dipsydoodle]

9. They missed out

the Mercedes badge on the steering wheel jammed on top of Diana's head.

[bettyellen]

28. yep. my two sisters has grill marks from the drunk drivers who killed them

i heard the funeral home complained they were so hard to spakle over. May you someday have the joy of such a fucking hilarious sight.

[dipsydoodle]

104. By choice

Neither of them had their seat belts engaged. In that Mercedes its latching the seat belts which arms the rear air bags. If the airbags had been armed they'd both have been fine.

Your sisters had no choice : Diana and Dodi did.

[bettyellen]

113. lots of random awful things happen and you can always blame- or in your case mock the victim

Most people just blame, but you lay judgement and also mock.... Not sure why you need to do it, if it;s anger or fear or ignorance, but there it is.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. There is a picture that truly belongs on black velvet surrounded by pink flamingoes.

[suffragette]

13. And spotlighted with a black light

;-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. To be admired while sitting on the toilet in the trailer eating Twinkies.

[RebelOne]

111. Excuse me, but why would think

that we trailer dwellers would admire this painting? Is this a slur toward people who live in mobile homes?

[Curmudgeoness]

19. Watch it with the pink flamingo jokes.

I love pink flamingoes. That is tacky that is fun! (Although I am agreed that I am probably the only one who doesn't live in a trailer who is cool with flamingoes. I never was a conformer.)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. OK. Make it garden gnomes.

[Curmudgeoness]

30. Thank you. From me and my beautiful pink flamingoes.

Have you ever seen how much those stupid things cost?!?

[BiggJawn]

77. Hey! Don't go hatin' on the Gnomes!

They make my flamingos look better.

[Curmudgeoness]

92. I saw this coming!

:crazy:

[mitchtv]

24. no, I love them too

i gave a few

[Curmudgeoness]

31. So-called tacky rules!!!

And I will admit to another so-called low-class obsession---colored Christmas lights. I hate that all-white pretentious lack of the fun spirit.

[mitchtv]

43. you would probably love my

electric lit, pink lighted, moving flamingo lawn ornament.

[Curmudgeoness]

54. Honey, that sounds divine.

Actually, I am not so sure I can picture it, but it would be worth seeing, to be sure.

[pipi_k]

26. Nahhh....

You're not the only one.

We live in a regular house and Mr Pip has been at me for 15 years to let him put pink flamingos out in his little garden pond.

We live in New England. The closest thing we have to pink flamingos here are blue herons. I may give in to his wishes if the herons keep coming back and eating our frogs. Maybe the flamingos will scare away the herons. The plastic floating alligator head sure isn't doing it.

[Curmudgeoness]

29. I don't know if it would work of not with the herons, but

you have me rolling on the floor about the plastic floating alligator head. I would love to see that! :rofl:

[pipi_k]

49. Here ya go...

Alligator head. The pond is a bit low right now so it's beached.









Where it should be...floating among the water lilies...

[Curmudgeoness]

56. Beautiful pond. Poor alligator looks dead right now.

But then again, I have seen alligators who look dead just laying there. I would love to have that much room and nature around me. Consider yourself lucky, even if the pesky heron eats your frogs. Herons gotta eat too. But pink flamingoes, they will not bother your frogs! I can envision a couple of pink flamingoes now, tormenting the alligator.

[pipi_k]

86. Yeah, that's where the mixed feelings come in...

Herons gotta eat, and so do the river otters that come up and dine on my fish. And the coyotes who eat cats and deer and other critters.

It makes me sad, but they can't shop down at the grocery store in town.

Everything is something else's food.

[Control-Z]

66. You're not alone.

My daughters and I love them. The older one even had a pair on her front lawn at her wedding last month. So cooool. My younger daughter is looking for flamingo patio lights to put up in her bedroom.

[Curmudgeoness]

73. I can see that I am not alone, but it sure feels like it until you speak out.

My sisters are relently in making fun of me, and they are always buying me pink flamingo items---pajamas, a sun-catcher for the window, a beanie baby, lawn ornaments (always the ones that really are tacky with spinning wings or that bob around). It has become a joke, but I am glad that I have company.

[MedicalAdmin]

115. You are not alone.

A friend of mine who is a designer (environmental retrofits, bath, kitchen, wedding dresses and winterwear and one of th classist women I know, collects them. Claims that they inspire relaxation on her deck...

[Curmudgeoness]

123. I'll use that excuse from now on.

I like that.....they inspire relaxation!

[pinboy3niner]

125. You can use my excuse

They inspire uncontrollable paroxysms of laughter. After all, great art is SUPPOSED to appeal to the emotions. ;)

[Control-Z]

65. Hey. Pink flamingos are

cool.

[Buns_of_Fire]

122. But if it's on black velvet IT'S GOTTA HAVE ELVIS IN IT!!!

Sorry to shout, but this is an ironclad RULE. No exceptions, not even for Lady Di.

[QC]

12. Why is Diana wearing black?

Is she a fallen angel now?

[bvar22]

38. I noticed that too.

Very odd.
Diana is represented as a Black Angel.
WTF?

[QC]

50. She is an emissary of Satan!!! n/t

[dissidentboomer]

15. "Ahhhh! The stupid! It burns!" The rank and file

have reverted to a time before the enlightenment.

[slackmaster]

16. It's so bad, it's good!

:kick:

[formercia]

18. Shhh. Every Flea Market in the Country will have copies

It will ruin the Market. :rofl:

[slackmaster]

59. I'm holding out for the black velvet Mexican version

[Tutankhamun]

69. Jesus and Elvis: both still alive.

[XanaDUer]

90. "In Search of Historic Elvis"

nt.

[Whisp]

17. barf

omg that's horrid

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I am waiting for Thomas Kincade to add more light to it.

Thus raising it to the supreme level of tackiness.

But it ain't REALLY tacky until the Bradford Exchange turns it into a clock!

( for those who miss the above references, just google them....but not while eating)

[pipi_k]

27. Oh lord...

Thomas Kincade!!!

I'd rather see watercolor paintings of rusty old 1949 pickup trucks rotting away in farmhouse yards than his creepy drivel...

[Botany]

46. sometimes Kincade paintings need some help

[kestrel91316]

52. Awesome!

[xmas74]

62. I hate Kincade but

would love to have that painting in the basement. It would mess with people after a few drinks.

[jmowreader]

79. You are duty bound to tell us where you got that

I can just see that hanging in thousands of DUers' homes all over the world.

[dixiegrrrrl]

83. MUCH better. Thanks.

:rofl:

[pipi_k]

87. Hahahahaah!!!

Now that is what I call Art.

:7

[ThoughtCriminal]

97. Don't forget "Meth Lab in The Woods"

Now we're painting with "light".

[Ikonoklast]

118. Dunwich, nice little town by the sea...AAAGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Love it.

[DBoon]

23. Los Angeles stands for nothing if not a complete lack of good taste

There are galleries dedicated to well executed cheesy pop art representing the dreck of celebrity worship, well attended by ironic hipsters drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon. (http://www.laluzdejesus.com/)

Do you think this is Paris or New York or something?

On Edit: For another fine example see

[suffragette]

110. Statues by the yard

tasteless as twice chewed gum by the foot.

[Botany]

112. We can match tacky for tacky in Ohio v California

Our local republican state senator has this flag up on his house that is just decked out
in 100% down home USA USA USA 4th of july special sutff.

[sakabatou]

25. My eyes! THEY BLLED!

[lunatica]

32. that shaft of light is about to strangle William

Where does it come from? Kate looks like her hair was dyed once and she's letting it grow out.

[K8-EEE]

33. He has not had that much hair since he was 12.

Oh that is bad...baaaad! I was driving down La Brea yesterday and saw the big sign on Pink's Chili Dog stand "Welcome Will & Kate." I dunno -- can't picture her really digging into one of those Pink's dogs! Or eating food at all, actually....

[A-Schwarzenegger]

36. They have people who eat for them.

[hfojvt]

34. they sure gave William a nice thick head of hair

that's why paintings are so much cooler than photographs

[WCGreen]

41. That was the first thing I noticed...

The bald prince...

[stuntcat]

37. I like it..

I mean if it's a joke on how ridiculous all the focus and attention is on these two then it's pointing it out real well.

How many children died of starvation the day they were married? How much more of the ocean was poisoned that day? How much forest was leveled, how many mountains were flattened for coal, how many animals went extinct, etc etc etc?

I do understand why it's much nicer to think of whatever CNN tells us is "news".. news for CLOWNS!! :P }( :+

[REP]

44. Alas, I doubt it is an intentional joke.

[REP]

39. To update Mencken: Nobody ever lost money underestimating the taste of the British public

Royal weddings, funerals and this 'painting' ... Vulgarity is no longer solely an American attritbute.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

45. Except they were having royal weddings before Lief Erikson was a gleam in some Viking gal's eyes.

Remember Prince Albert in the can?
Let's not be too smug about being vulgar, olde chap.

[REP]

47. Oh, we're still #1 - 911 Commerative Plate, anyone?

And Mencken died in '56; I could have quoted WC Brann (1855-1898) just as well ("Willy Wally to Wed"), but he's not as well known.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

48. Everything deserves its own plate.

Let's not begrudge things its plate.

[pinboy3niner]

51. Or its own commemorative condoms

Slogan: "Lie back and think of England."

http://crownjewelscondoms.com/heritage.html

[A-Schwarzenegger]

55. I just ordered a crate.

I'm holding onto them. In as year or two
they're going to be worth something & I'll
be laughing all the way to the bank. You can
mock those two poor sweet kids all you want,
but a crate of royal condoms is nothing to sneeze at.

[pinboy3niner]

61. No, not a royal mocker

I think the kids are alright. And I'm not sneezing.

Good luck with your investment--may it be fruitful and multiply! (On second thought, that last part may have been a poor choice of words...but you know what I mean.)

[Cleita]

53. Is that the same artist that paints religious scenes

and holy cards? Frankly, I'm sure Diana would be wearing something more stylish than that drab brown rag.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

57. I didn't have my glasses on

when I first looked at it. I thought
she was carrying two tires & it was a tire
commercial.

[pinboy3niner]

63. They must have been Uniroyals nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

71. You're on a roll.

I never get tired of puns. :*

[RadiationTherapy]

60. There is a shit load of occult imagery in there.

It would take a while to dissect, but an art historian with knowledge of european secret societies and the monarchy could probably ramble on quite a bit.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

76. Starting with the tangerine.

[Maru Kitteh]

68. Why is Dianna pointing a laser at his head? lol

It looks as though the proceeds are going to charity. That's nice. It's very kitschy. Plenty of people like that kind of tongue-in-cheeky kind of thing. I find a lot of modern art to be pretentious and horribly tedious. I'd rather have this painting. At least it's good for a laugh and some fun conversation.

[Odin2005]

72. That tackiness is an insult to Princess Di.

[hatrack]

74. What I wouldn't give for a sad clown about now!

Even a sad, big-eyed kitten would do. But this . . . eccchhhh . . . .

[tblue37]

75. Will does NOT have that much hair! nt

[BiggJawn]

78. Do the eyes follow you across the room?

Not even *I* have anything that tacky!

[pinboy3niner]

80. I was given a Jesus portrait like that once

Fortunately, it was delivered from the in-laws by mail, rather than in person, because we were literally :rofl: !

[MedicalAdmin]

116. Me too. I finally got them to stop.

They noticed that the "last supper"'they got us was on the wall, and then on closer inspection noticed the title I had added to it - "separate checks please." they were unamused. But the paintings stopped.

I like the holy water wall sconce however. I nailed it by my desk and use it for paperclips.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

85. That's $29.95 extra but they throw in a bag of Golden Glitter.

[Botany]

98. no but Will and Kate are looking @ each other

:rofl:

[Tutankhamun]

81. That shaft o' light over the prince's right shoulder

kind of looks like projectile vomit.

[dixiegrrrrl]

84. I was admiring all the chemtrails in the background.

[ThoughtCriminal]

93. Oh yeah? Remember this?

I think it was parody - hard to tell anymore.

[MadHound]

95. Is it just me, or does that look more like Pippa than Kate

Seriously, that looks like Pippa, not Kate. Of course the guy with the thick mane of hairs doesn't look like William either:shrug:

[Botany]

99. congrats DU

we put this on top of google ..... search tackiest painting :rofl:

[Mendocino]

100. WE'RE #1

USA..USA..USA! :)

[Glimmer of Hope]

126. LOL. Awesome!

[Liberal Veteran]

102. Someone give Diana some Preparation H so she'll stop scratching her butt in public.

[demigoddess]

103. bathes them in holy light

bad art, bad spelling??

[MattBaggins]

106. I was expecting a Kinkade painting

[derby378]

108. Ay caramba

That is grotesque.

[Blue_Tires]

119. Not bad for a satire....

[fascisthunter]

124. lol