Artists Angry at Ivanka Instagramming their ‘Art’

December 22nd, 2016 10:09 AM

Finally, something sticks! After months of flinging just about every accusation they could think of against Trump et al, media lefties have hit on a charge that’s demonstrably, undeniably true: The Trumps have bad taste in art.

According to Raw Story, a bunch of artists are clutching their pearls because their work keeps showing up in Ivanka’s Instagram posts. Ivanka is apparently an art collector, and “These artists not only don’t want to be associated with the divisive, historically unpopular incoming president, they feel that their work is being co-opted as aesthetic window dressing for the 35-year-old heiress’ personal brand.”

Or maybe they’re embarrassed that normal people might see their work. And by normal I mean anyone not foolish enough to pay $578,500 for some color daubs called “Chewing Gum.”

But the real embarrassment must be Ivanka’s alone. Raw Story tells us that, “Like many moneyed collectors trying to establish themselves in the art scene, Trump employs the services of an art adviser.” So she paid someone to tell her to fork over something like $581,000 for a “painting” by one Alex Israel that seems to be essentially blank.

Like many snowflakes in this cold, bleak Winter of Trump, some of the offended artists have banded together to form the Halt Action Group and an Instagram feed called “Dear Ivanka.” Raw Story quotes Bloomberg’s James Tarmy explaining, that the artists “repost glossy stock images of Trump along with earnest appeals about what they foresee as the dire consequences of her father’s politics.”

“Dear @Ivankatrump please get my work off of your walls. I am embarrassed to be seen with you,” wrote artist Alex Da Corte.

Wonder if Alex would put his money where his Instagram is and buy back whatever tchotchke he sold her?

Anyway, thanks to Raw Story, while we await the Trumpian fascist tyranny that surely is coming, we can at least make fun of his daughter for paying $665,000 for a silk screen painting of a “bullet hole.” 

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