07/09/2008
Obama-Lincoln Gets the Rainbow Treatment in Boston
A show called "a politic" opened over the holiday weekend at Gallery XIV in Boston. Accompanying it was a legally-posted Warholized billboard installation of Ron English's "Obama-Lincoln" fusion portrait. Given its prismatic tints, it's a shame it wasn't up for gay pride.
UPDATE: The enthusiasm of English fans, who have pasted the image all around the city, has caused a major stink among local businesses and residents.
AnimalNewYork has a slide show of the installation, and you can check out a video
AFTER THE JUMP...
(via slam x hype)
Posted 9:02 AM EST by Andy Towle in Abraham Lincoln, Art & Design, Barack Obama | Permalink
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warholized? give me a break!
just because the portrait image is repeated and in bright colors does not in any way link this work to Warhol's style or concepts.
Posted by: A.J. | Jul 9, 2008 9:38:22 AM
Give me a break, indeed. He may be good, great even, but this idolatry is becoming cloying, annoying, and overdone.
Posted by: Nick | Jul 9, 2008 9:48:30 AM
Gallery XIV has been flooded with phone calls because they printed these images in 11x17 poster size and then glued them all over the South End including businesses and residences.
Posted by: nobama | Jul 9, 2008 9:52:48 AM
This is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen. It diminishes the dignity of his campaign and gives fuel to those who claim that he is "deified" by his supporters. I hope they take that tacky shit down soon!
Posted by: soulbrotha | Jul 9, 2008 10:58:32 AM
I'm a little surprised by all the negative reaction.
Posted by: anon | Jul 9, 2008 11:31:30 AM
"I knew Abraham Lincoln. I worked with Abraham Lincoln And Mr. Obama, you're no Abraham Lincoln."
Posted by: bcarter3 | Jul 9, 2008 12:00:34 PM
It's more a goof than a work of art.
The negative reaction is with having to watch these damn things peel off over the next several months. At the gallery on the construction wall, who cares?
But they're scattered around the neighborhood on buildings, mailboxes, the side of a church. If they came down as easily as they went up, no one would care.
Posted by: Billy | Jul 9, 2008 12:09:12 PM
Fusing two heads together is just creepy. This crap belongs on Conan O'Brian. It is not art.
Posted by: Mike | Jul 9, 2008 12:35:37 PM
I think it's awesome. If they made wall posters of it I'd snap one up in a second.
Posted by: Chas | Jul 9, 2008 1:56:44 PM
Lincoln
Illinois state Senator
Obama
Illinois state senator and Illinois Fed Senator
Lincoln
preserved the union
Obama
trying to unify america
Lincoln
needed during america's darkest days
Obama
needed (heck any dem) during america's newest darkest days ala bushco
It is kind of cheesy.
A better pic would be Obama standing at the feet of the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln memorial ,looking up at lincoln's face, a shaft of light highlighting Obama.
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Jul 9, 2008 2:23:41 PM
Are you people as bitter and unhappy in real time as you are on this site? Some of you just post the same negative diatribes day in and day out, sad. The pic's look fine to me, and, thanks to Andy for posting them.
Posted by: Juan Pablo | Jul 9, 2008 4:15:38 PM
Lincoln, Republican
Obama, Democrat
That's what I find odd about this mashup.
Jimmyboyo, your "better pic" would be even tackier than this, in my opinion
Posted by: what | Jul 9, 2008 4:28:38 PM
What
Lincoln would be tossed from the modern repub party
1- questionable sexualty
2- against "state rights"
I assume your taste runs more to the sweaty mccain hugging bush pic.
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Jul 9, 2008 6:07:39 PM