Based congressman has a portrait of Chairman Mao.
Posted Jan 17, 2021, 3:55 AM UTC
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MAO is his waifu obviously guys just like his Stalin Dakurumpa (body pillow thing)
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*dakimakura
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I remember people at pol getting mad about this and some other paintings
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He can't be too based, if he's in congress he prolly did some Epstein shit
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Unfortunately, not a comrade, just a pop art enjoyer. Which IMO is still pretty good
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Next on The David Pakman Show: Fox News Propaganda is Straight From Mao's EVIL Regime
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Being in favour of genocide to own the tankies?
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"i just hate the government not the people bro i promise"
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Ok serbian
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Wait, what happened?
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Nothing, some dude came in and said "fuck china" lol
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Was he Serbian?
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It’s an Andy Warhol painting. It’s supposed to be mocking Mao by commodifying his image.
I can't help but think Mao would find this hysterical. "So I live in your house and your head rent free? The spectre haunts."
Not just rent free, they paid for him to be there
Not really sure Warhol intended to mock Mao, anymore than he did Marilyn Monroe or Elvis. Warhol seemed to have a bit of an affinity for communism, despite never really voicing it much. He has a whole series of hammer and sickle prints and pretty sure he studied under communists when he was younger.
Warhol was no comrade. The “leftist” politics many of those types of artists associated with align more with the synthetic left than anything.
What is "synthetic left"?
He wasn't a communist, and any affinty was more of an aesthetic thing, or like reducing political symbols of the cold war era to aesthetisized commodities.
It wasn't really any kind of substantial poltical statement, so I agree with you it wasn't really to mock Mao specifically, though i suppose you could call it mocking or satire of Mao as a symbol in pop culture.
But honestly it's not that deep and the whole pop art movement is super facile and masturbatory, though i guess it doesn't really claim not to be lol.
I don't really like his work or any of the art to come out of that scene.
I like the velvet underground though, and Nico's solo stuff.
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This explains why I listen to so much breakbeat recently, it all loves to just dunk on copyright law
mocking is a nice guise to hide their irresistible urge to commodify every fucking thing. Pretty sure they would be 'mocking' us when they sell us the rope too.
I just looked it up, it's not Warhhol. His Mao painting looks different
Theres a Drake music video with the Mao in it.