Art is political. At least a trump show.
Over the years, presidential portraits have been acquired for the Colorado Congress House. Time magazine says that in 2018 A collection was launchedin order to make the president of the first time sitting for the first time From Donald Trump You could get a painting.
The collection did not receive any donations.
In July 2018, the NGO Progressow Colorado activist slipped into the congress house and placed Trump’s portrait of a Russian President waiting for the portrait of Trump’s portrait Vladimir Putin Image with a painting rack.
The organization said it wanted to protest Russia’s influence on Trump.
There was an uproar. The then President of the Colorado state mushroom Kevin Grantham launched a new collection that accumulated in 32 hours with the amount needed.
Painting ordered an artist From Sarah Boardmanand it was announced in August 2019.
In the painting, the president is thoughtful and calm.
“Distorted” image, artist “lost his skills”
The painting hung in peace at the Colorado congress house for five and a half years.
On Sunday night, President Trump published Truth in Social Account bitter estimate. He thinks it would be better that he would not have any painting at the Colorado Congress, if the alternative was made by Boardman.
– The painting is deliberately distorted to the extent that even I may never have seen something like this before. The same artist made a portrait of the president too From Obamaand he looks great, but I made it really the worst. The artist had to lose his skills as he aged, Finland Trump.
Born in Britain and living in Colorado Springs, 63 years old Boardman says They were trying to make a neutral picture of Trump.
– My portrait of Trump has been called thoughtful, not seeking confrontation, not angry, not happy, not tweeting. When five, ten, 15, 20 years, he becomes only one president on the wall who is a historical background and must look neutral, said Boardman in 2019.
“Governor should be ashamed”
President Trump, in his social message, was primarily a Democratic Governor of Colorado.
Trump claimed to have received complaints from an angry Colorado of his bad portrait.
– I speak for them for a governor of a radical left Jared to Poliswhich is very weak to combat crime, especially in the Tren de Aragua, who in practice captured Aurora (don’t be worried, we rescued it!) To take the painting down, Trump wrote.
Aurora is Colorado’s third largest city, Espoo’s population. Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan criminal organization. In his message, Trump is taking an opportunity to drive his campaign against a criminal organization.
Governor Jared Polis is actually a libertarian and the right side of the democrats. He also has nothing to do with painting.
On Sunday evening, the governor’s spokesman commented that the governor was surprised at how enthusiastic the president of the painting and Colorado state is.
Russia donated a new portrait
Colorado Republicans immediately launched the process to remove the portrait. Republican Minority Director Paul Lundee He stated that a painting is desired, which better matches Trump’s current appearance.
The Colorado Democrats agreed to move the portrait out of sight and commented in their statement:
– If Republicans want to spend time and money on what a portrait of Trump hangs in the congress, that’s their business.
But the story does not end here either.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has donated to Trump a new portrait. Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov According to the gift, the gift is private.
The painting has not been presented in public and it is not known whether it ends up in the Colorado congress house.
That is, in the place where the Putin portrait of Putin was originally hung in protest.