George Bush Bathtub Painting
Bush has kept things relatively low profile since leaving the white house four years ago but it appears he s been busy trying to perfect his painting skills.
George bush bathtub painting. Read amy davidson on the bush paintings. University park texas of all the images to have emerged from the post presidential george w. Former president george w. Bush uses his weight room as a studio.
Now we 39 ve seen the art of george w. Bush via the smoking gun the other painting is of a man in a bathtub from the subject s own point of view. In 2013 when bush s initial forays into painting were revealed via an email hack his practice was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. It seems a stretch to call bush an outsider artist.
Bush had taken up painting in february 2013 after a hacker broke into his sister dorothy s. It shows the man s outstretched legs half submerged in water under a. Bush admitted he was annoyed by hackers who leaked images of his paintings specifically one of himself in the bathtub he painted to shock his art instructor. President in the shower and bathtub.
Bush s talent for art was first exposed to the world in february 2013 when hackers who gained access to bush s sister s email account and several others made pictures of the paintings public. The third picture of bush in the bathtub is. Of course george w. The world first learned that george w.
We need a new term. Gawker s curt description of bush s paintings as awkward and simple was. Man in bathtub again a bush painting where a superficial image of cleansing oneself masks an allusion to more ignominious things. Of the former u s.
The smoking gun has acquired. These early works including bizarre self portraits of bush in the bathtub and shower spawned countless articles questioning the former president s new hobby. Painting bush said has.