Eek! Google Honors Birthday of Bisexual, Commie-Symp MEXICAN Artist, for Chrissake!

SHE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH TROTSKY! SHE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH TROTSKY! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Obviously, there is no limit to the perfidy that America-hating Google will perpetrate on decent people who detest modern art, Mexicans and the Ear;y 20th Century. Google’s modest tribute to Frida Kahlo has greatly exercised certain precincts of the Clenched-Ass-O-Sphere, but screw them. If you want apolitical art, buy Keane prints and contact paper.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 07/06/10 at 01:55 PM • Permalink

Categories: I Don't Know Much About Art, But I Know What I Like • Images • News •

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Actually, I think even Margaret Keene would be too liberal for some, these days.

Comment by Lancelot Link on 07/06/10 at 02:16 PM

Keane was—consciously or not—a back-door conduit for the eventual flood of big-eyed Japanese anime heroines and alien tentacle-sex gifs.

Ideologically-myopic Wingnuts never see the TRUE villains. Some, for example, are today celebrating the fact that retailers like Sam’s Club are now extending consumer and small-business loans to their customers. Ask “Tennessee” Ernie Ford how THAT shit works out.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/06/10 at 02:28 PM

I had no idea who that was. Still don’t care

Comment by merl on 07/06/10 at 02:34 PM

Strange, is this why your house is full of Thomas Kinkade paintings?

Comment by justlen on 07/06/10 at 02:37 PM

I had no idea who that was. Still don’t care

All that matters, merl, is that she’s NOT A REEL ‘MURKIN, and she had an affair with Trotksy.

Hell, she probably read books, ate with silverware and owned a foreign car.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/06/10 at 02:40 PM

Give me celery (in my art) or give me death.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 07/06/10 at 02:43 PM

Len, I own a small Kinkade original, which I keep next to the Hellraiser Box and the tube of Astro-Glide in my study.

My favorite Kinkades, of course, are here.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/06/10 at 02:46 PM

Kahlo was a woman brave and honest enough to unflinchingly record her own uni-brow and mustache. For that alone, she should be honored daily on Google and elsewhere. If said homage causes wingnuts to soil their Dockers, even more credit redounds to the incomparable Frida.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/06/10 at 02:48 PM

Kinkade sounds like something you use with Astro-Glide.

Comment by Origuy on 07/06/10 at 03:50 PM

Also her husband was a founder of one of the Fourth International splinter groups that sprang up after Trotsky suffered his fatal case of “Ice Axe to the Head”.

Comment by John Ball on 07/06/10 at 03:59 PM

“Clenched Ass-O-Sphere”; what a perfect description!

Comment by StringonaStick on 07/06/10 at 04:45 PM

I read American on Purpose by one of my many imaginary husbands, Craig Ferguson, over the weekend (quite funny—I recommend it!) Anyway, he starts out with the White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner in 2007—he was the clean-up hitter for the last WHPC dinner of the Bush years. He and his art-dealer wife, Megan, met the Cheneys. Ferguson said “I get shy around evil people,” but his wife remembered that the Cheneys had collected some Picassos, so she started chatting them up about that so as to avoid obvious controversies.

Lynn: Well, we have some nudes, but we can’t display them. We have grandchildren.

Megan: But they’re Picassos!

Lynn: But they’re nudes!

At which point Ferguson gripped Megan’s elbow so they wouldn’t be taken away to Gitmo or someplace worse. But yeah—“culture” and “American conservatives” really no longer belong in the same universe, if ever they did.