LDS Painter Explores the Absurd
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President Trump might be expressing gratitude that he found something with smaller hands than his.
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Cult of personality American style. It's funny how closely it resembles Soviet Socialist Realism propaganda art.
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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Maksutov wrote:Cult of personality American style. It's funny how closely it resembles Soviet Socialist Realism propaganda art.
Everybody in Russia loved Stalin.
Those who didn't somehow just evaporated ...
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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Maksutov wrote:Cult of personality American style. It's funny how closely it resembles Soviet Socialist Realism propaganda art.
That’s what I think of whenever I see one of his paintings.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
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Res Ipsa wrote:Maksutov wrote:Cult of personality American style. It's funny how closely it resembles Soviet Socialist Realism propaganda art.
That’s what I think of whenever I see one of his paintings.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/10 ... -biennale/
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This one is the worst... https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=5D14581E
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Trump signs Bibles after Tornado kills people in Alabama.
https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/trump-s ... amage.html
https://www.al.com/news/2019/03/trump-s ... amage.html
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Mak, nice article. Thanks.
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Res Ipsa wrote:Maksutov wrote:Cult of personality American style. It's funny how closely it resembles Soviet Socialist Realism propaganda art.
That’s what I think of whenever I see one of his paintings.
+1
I'm waiting for a painting of Donald and Stormy, but I assume that would require a private showing.
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They could hang them in Jared's place at 666 5th Avenue.
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.