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  1. If president Bush would deign to give me any one of his paintings I could almost certainly retire from the proceeds I’d realize from its sale!

    He’s really very good.

  2. There’s something just delightful about Bush plunging into painting after his presidency. He’s always read a lot, so it’s not surprising that he would find the Churchill book. I’m going from here to Amazon to see if it’s still available!

  3. I like his work too. It seems to have a testing quality to it–like he wants to see if he can capture the light on the tabletop.

  4. Hi IS very good! He has a very good understanding of perspective which is usually something one either has or doesn’t. It’s possible to learn certain “tricks” to create the look of perspective, but there are often many things in a painting or drawing in which perspective is important to the portrayal and frequently the “little tricks” are missed somewhere.

    Even more difficult and complicated is the play of light and portraying natural light, artificial light, and most especially, reflection. He nails it with that table (not so much with the ceiling lights but they are pretty much incidental objects that can be overlooked).

    He also portrays well the texture of the various things in the picture. For instance, his primitive handling of the wood (i.e. little attention to minute detail and understanding that wood (unvarnished does not reflect light conveys the textural “roughness” of the dark wood when compared with slick, shiny surfaces like the table.

    Well done!

    (When I first logged on, I really didn’t look at the picture. I started reading first — I got maybe a quick glance in my peripheral vision. I thought that it was a photograph! Upon reading the post, of course I took another much better look, and I was really surprised! Must have missed previous post on W’s painting.)
    Fun diversion from today’s awful news in Boston.

  5. It all looks like Michelangelo from where I sit. My art career began and ended in kindergarten when the teacher ripped up a picture I drew in front of the class.

  6. That Churchill landscape – I liked it, but doesn’t he have the shadows falling in two very different directions? Oops.

  7. Gary Rosen,

    Shame on her. This is the old color within the lines syndrome. To revile a child’s product as unacceptable at the kindergarten level is absurd. Who knows, you might have been the next Jackson Pollock.

  8. roc scssrs; yes, Hitler painted, but he was rejected by art school.

    Not that it really makes the real difference between them, but . . .

    Bush and Churchill took up painting AFTER being successful politicians.

    Hitler took up warmongering and genocide after being a failure at painting.

    The world would have been better off if Hitler could have painted a little better.

  9. T,

    Folks tend to react to that story as if I had been molested! But while I can’t say I was thrilled I was not surprised because I knew it sucked before I handed it in (or maybe even started it). I already knew at that age that art was not my long suit.

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