Saddam Hussein's 70 van art, for your delectation

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Yeah, it was already reported on, but now, a clearer view.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Weapons of Mass Disgustingness?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of those are gorgeous! I like this one the most:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39108000/jpg/_39108943_art4.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(it simultaneously reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is it merely his collection, or is it his own work?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

If the latter, then there's your Hitler comparison.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39108000/jpg/_39108905_art2.jpg I like this one, except for that guy in the background.

At least he doesn't have Leroy Nieman paintings.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Except for the one Nickalicious posted, they're all menacing and paranoid. There's always someone or something in the background, ready to strike. I think some of them are beautifully executed for fantasy art, though (a genre of which I am not a particular fan).

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems as though the painter (Saddam or whomever) is very much on some biblical shit: the one with the woman-with-eyes-closed, man, and city reminded me of the tale of Sodom & Gomorha (even though I guess the man should be out in front of the woman?), and the more obvious snake-in-the-tree thing in the last one.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot how you actually get from earth to gor, but if anyone is wondering where saddam is, that's my suggestion

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, this clarifies (to me, anyway) a bit about Hussein's psyche. They seem to have a bit of homo-erotic imagery in it (the chiseled guy with the snake wrapped around his waist; the victim facing the alligator, etc)---though I doubt he actually saw any of it.

Also, there seems to be a martyr thing going on, as all the subjects are fighting against an opponent/ resignedly facing up to it [the woman lying face up]

All asthetically beautiful, but with teeth....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

These pictures actually made me feel a wave of pity for Saddam. It's like when you go to an Asian country and pick up a magazine and find all the adverts feature western models. It makes you realise the people there don't have very high self-esteem and their culture is very largely an adjunct to the culture of the west.

Instead of Islamic imagery or Iraqi faces, there were blond teutonic warriors, men resembling Hans Blix, shiksa females, Schwartzeneggers. It really brought home that Saddam -- the Arabic leader most likely to be seen wearing a suit and tie --was the west's man in his heyday. What a disaster it must have been for him to be attacked by the very power that set him up! No wonder he went so quietly, without even using those poisonous weapons we sold him.

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

These are just entirely bizarre.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

momus, yes!! also that picture of him in a hat with a rifle, like james mason in the shooting party or something...

uday wanted to go to MIT and be an engineer: ok i accept he maybe failed to get the required grades cz he wz up all night partying and torturing and whatever, but there's a "i wz excluded from the upper upper country club so i became a bond super-villain" tragi-comic element somewhere buried in here

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

All true enough. Then you read a story like this and frankly, it's all the more tragic in the end.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet Saddam secretly was in a band. He was Tony Orlando.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The torture is consistent with the paintings, though. He could torture and dehumanise those people because they were Iraqis. They or people like them didn't appear in his fantasy realm. If they'd been teutons he'd have laid off them.

In this sense Saddam's reign is completely consistent with the one that is now imposing itself, in which Iraqis will still take second place to 'blond, blue-eyed' administrators and contractors. They've been prepared for this. Soon, instead of pictures of Saddam, there will be blond, blue-eyed westerners displayed in public places. Instead of shooting guns they will probably be smoking 'Freedom cigarettes'.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 18 April 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Following the coalition invasion of the Vatican, strange paintings showing a girlish middle eastern man being graphically tortured were discovered in the Pope's personal chambers.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoa!

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the pope has too many missles to ever be invaded. HAR! ( inside joke amongst Catholics and religious paraphenalia addicts.)

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Hanle y Deus and I wish to make him the new Pope of LUUUUUURVE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.cinepad.com/fff/studsgroup.jpg

― Dada, Sunday, 7 December 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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