From the President campaign and the election till today the world continues to express its feelings about President Trump not only verbally, but through the artists' works. Let’s go over the most bright ones!
As a right of passage for all presidents, Donald Trump has been also immortalized in oils. Though, frankly speaking, it was not so easy. Twelve of the nation’s most revered portrait artists have refused the White House’s invitation to capture Mr. Trump on canvas. And only Chas Fagan, a painter and sculptor from North Carolina, made the first official oil portrait of the President based on the photograph collection of Trump.
Those who had refused, claimed they found President Trump too fidgety and that "3-year-old kid can posess more patience, self-control and maturity than Trump does".
His signature is the testament to that!
Left: Chas Fagan. Donald Trump’s portrait. C-SPAN.org
Donald Trump’s signature is compressed and jagged, most of its lines cutting up and down at sharp angles, like stitches over a scar or tremors registering on a seismograph. Even if you understand nothing in handwriting analysis, you could argue that it nicely fits a man who is known for mercurial moods swings, and for being instantly identifiable yet impossible to predict.
Trump likes signing things. "We’ve signed more bills—and I’m talking about through the legislature—than any president, ever," Trump claimed falsely.
Left: Installation view of Lutz Bacher’s untitled work at 3320 18th St in San Francisco. Copyright 2017, Art Media ARTNEWS
Using Trump’s campaign slogan "Make America great again", Australian-American artist Ashley "Illma" Gore produced the work under the same name. She was assaulted by his supporters for this unflattering nude portrait of the President.
Saint Hoax, an anonymous Syrian artist who spends his time between his two homes of Beirut and New York, has replaced the misogynistic slogans of 1950s advertising posters with actual things that President Donald Trump has said, juxtaposing the two forms of prevailing sexism that stand some 30 years apart.
Despite huge advances in women’s rights across the world, it seems as though things have not changed much in this respect since the 1950s.
Some more art inspired by Trump's quotes. Think Twice Before You Speak
- Local graffiti artist Scenereo painted a wall-sized portrait for a nightclub men's room. Trump`s image is surrounded by his ugliest quotes and tweet. The artist have placed an urinal where his potty-mouth ought to be.
- This painting by U.K. artist Conor Collins uses Trump's own words against him. As Collins explained when he tweeted the image in January, it's a portrait "made using only the racist, sexist, ignorant and bigoted things he has said," and compiles quotes sourced from the interviews, speeches and @realDonaldTrump's Twitter.
Using the elements of electronic circuitry, American artist and scientist Kelly Heaton tries to mirror the process of the creation of life. Despite being from the recent past, these quickly outmoded technological elements are a reminder of the fleeting nature of progress, as what’s cutting-edge one decade becomes landfill fodder the next.
Left: Kelly Heaton. Donald Trump (The Big Hack), 2017. Oil on canvas, 18" x 18"
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Is making protest art great again? Street Art about Donald Trump
- Political satire is everywhere. Street artist and Banksy parodist 'Hanksy' installed this mural of Trump in New York City's Chinatown, transforming Trump into a poo pile as yellow and grotesque as his hair.
- A poster of Donald Trump kissing Vladimir Putin by Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Bonanu (Image: 2oceansvibe.com). It's similar to the Fraternal Kiss (German: Bruderkuss), a graffiti painting on the Berlin wall by Dmitri Vrubel depicting Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker in a fraternal embrace.
...and several more portraits of Trump from the artists all over the world (Japan, Ukraine, Russia)
Oscar Wilde
Therefore, politicians should be highly responsible for their own credibility, if they do not want to look like Barry Blitt`s caricatures.
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Based on materials of The New Yorker, Artsy.net, Artnet.news.
