Naked Blair at centre of art show: A drawing which depicts Tony and Cherie Blair naked on the steps of 10 Downing Street is the centrepiece of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. Artist and sculptor Michael Sandle, 71, conceived the three-panel picture, Iraq Triptych, as a protest against the war. "I suddenly felt overcome with anger at the way Blair has messed up," he told the Guardian newspaper. 'Vanity' Sandle's Iraq Triptych will hang in Gallery V, and has been awarded the exhibition's Hugh Casson prize for drawing. .... The work, in charcoal and chalk, is based on medieval paintings of Adam and Eve being banished from the Garden of Eden. .... Side panels show Iraqi civilians being abused by British troops. .... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6719227.stm
Pretty crude propoganda... but then I guess one of the benefits of being an artists is that you don't have to be balanced. In fact.... the more unbalanced, the better Meow Purr.
I went to school for art When an artist lets too much emotion get in the way of his art, it becomes more of a craft than an art. I'm more on the side of art for art's sake. Personally, on the topic of war, Picasso did a much better job with Guernica. It's evident more thought than raw emotion went into Picasso's work. The key difference here is that in Guernica, Picasso captures the emotion of war itself, rather than the "emotional statement" of the artist.