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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Visual Art Art on the Front Page

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:38 AM

The New York Times put these illustrations of the reluctant-to-sit-for-his-official-portrait Mario Cuomo on the front page this morning.

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I like the so-called Picasso interpretation on the far right the best as a standalone image (all are by illustrator Thomas Fuchs). The others, left to right, are homages to Mondrian, Crumb, and Warhol. But none of these really captures the charismatic and smooth but still somehow pleasantly frumpy guy who was my childhood governor. I also remember him as a hothead. I'm going with El Greco for El Mario.

In any case, MYO Mario portrait here.

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If only the Democrats had run him in 1984 instead of Mondale. Sigh...

Posted by Andy Niable on December 3, 2008 at 11:43 AM

Gov Schwarzenegger gets a gory Goya. Francis Bacon for Jesse Ventura.

Posted by PedestrianMe on December 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Ah, yes. Our childhood governor! Our hearts never forget, do we?

Posted by elenchos on December 3, 2008 at 11:59 AM

I remember him looking a little haggard towards the end, but I still perked up a little after I saw him.

@1: He kind of guaranteed New York state a republican governor for the next 12 years after his time in office, so I'm not sure how well that would have worked.

Posted by Dawgson on December 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM

Those Crumb and Warhol "interpretations" look like lazy Photoshop filter jobs.

Posted by DOUG. on December 3, 2008 at 12:58 PM

Jen, which part of the state did you grow up in?

Posted by HuskyQuaker on December 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM

East Greenbush. The glorious! (Outside Albany.)

Posted by Jen Graves on December 5, 2008 at 4:22 PM

I have a question to anyone that knows:
Do artists, painter etc., do the same work again and agian and how?

If anyone has an answer, respond at ade@thecoolexchange.com

Posted by ade on December 6, 2008 at 6:39 PM