Like the Eliot Spitzer painting posted immediately before, I had no idea what I was doing with this painting until the last moments. In my better paintings, or at least the paintings that I like, I suppose there is a sort of symbolic visual language which is to various degrees obtuse. The language for the most part comes out of the painting rather than being imposed upon it. The cauliflower ear compliments the broccoli pompadour-a wonder he can hear out of that thing. The difference in color between the face and neck belie that this could be a mask. The cream from the Twinkie could be smoke, which Obama no longer does-so perhaps this is a fuse. The shape surrenders meaning to visually compliment the stalk rather than enunciate a caricature.
Obama Broccoli Twinkie Painting - Ebay Art Auction
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