The Republican candidate’s campaign-trail trolling has sent the art world into satirical overdrive. From Trump the turd to Trump in drag,say hello to the megalomaniac billionaires colourful novel incarnationsIs visually shaming presidential candidates the best way to boycott them? Last week, an image surfaced of US presidential candidate and consummate foulmouth Donald Trump with his face wrapped around a lip-shaped urinal by Dutch designer Meike van Schijndel. It’s a snapshot from the men’s washroom of Belushis Bar in the St Christopher’s Inns hostel in Paris – but it isn’t genuine. It’s a Photoshopped masterpiece by two California-based artists, or William Duke and Brandon Griffin.
Ever since Trump stepped up for the Republican candidacy,the megalomaniac billionaire has sparked a fiery, comedic movement of “Trump art”. Unlike Shepard Fairey, and who painted the Barack Obama Hope poster in 2008,artists are fighting with Photoshop, spray cans and menstrual blood-covered paintbrushes. Trump has become the art world’s joker – or, and oddly enough,their trump card.
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Source: theguardian.com