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(23,635 posts)dchill
(40,146 posts)Seems odd.
Ellipsis
(9,167 posts)The news that United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent the past 20 years taking undisclosed luxury vacations on the dime of Republican donor Harlan Crow comes with a bizarre art angle: Crow has immortalized their time together in a painting that hangs at his home at Camp Topridge, a massive compound in Upstate New Yorks Adirondack Park.
Its a photo-realistic work that depicts Crow and Thomas with lawyers Peter Rutledge, Leonard Leo, and Mark Paolettaall described by ProPublica, which broke the story, as conservative operativessitting in rustic wooden rocking chairs at Crows resort. (Leo, a Federalist Society leader, is said to have been instrumental in the confirmation of a third of the Supreme Courts current justices, including Thomas, who faced allegations of sexual harassment during his hearings.)
Surrounded by verdant trees, the five men sit below statue of a bare-chested Native American man who is reaching up to the heavens. Crow wears a long-sleeved gingham shirt and khaki shorts that end above the knee with strap-on sandals. Thomas has on a striped blue polo shirt and a casual vest with khaki pants and brown shoes. Both men are smoking cigars.
The canvas is the work of Sharif Tarabay, a Montreal illustrator repped by John Brewster Creative Services in Westport, Connecticut. His artistic influences are reportedly 19th- and 20th-century paintersspecifically Norman Rockwell and Haddon Hubbard Sundblom, an American illustrator best known for the Coca-Cola Santa Claus, considered to be the first modern depiction of the legendary Christmas saint.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/clarence-thomas-republican-donor-vacation-painting-2282167
dchill
(40,146 posts)Egotistically, yes.
dchill
(40,146 posts)2naSalit
(91,935 posts)It is disproportionately large compared to his body and the heads of the others. I mean, his gut is bigger than his head in real life but not in this painting. For what it probably cost, one would think an error of that proportion would have been remedied.
dchill
(40,146 posts)Heh.
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)dchill
(40,146 posts)Right, Harlan?
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)A black person in it too, one not in a subservient position so...
dchill
(40,146 posts)2naSalit
(91,935 posts)Every element of it is problematic in major ways.
dchill
(40,146 posts)Joinfortmill
(16,219 posts)They are paying him, though.
Cobalt Violet
(9,909 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(23,635 posts)Goonch
(3,803 posts)pow·wow: informal
a conference or meeting for discussion, especially among friends or colleagues.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,635 posts)dchill
(40,146 posts)... or "congress?"
Cobalt Violet
(9,909 posts)It's not acceptable to use it that way at all. It's deeply offensive to appropriate the word for this any other thing that is not an actual Powwow.
Goonch
(3,803 posts)Languages are constantly in flux. Changes in lexical meaning alter with each generation, even within the same culture or social group, and languages evolve as new words are developed in line with technology or are borrowed from other languages.
2naSalit
(91,935 posts)H2O Man
(75,210 posts)Meadowoak
(6,069 posts)Came out of nowhere and struck all 5 dead.