What Is It About Painting That Attracts Politicians?

[sandyRoe]

Hitler tried his hand at it, as did his nemesis, Churchill. And now GW Bush.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26890910

[whirlyhurly]

Remembering the magnificent portrait of Churchill by the artist Graham Sutherland,which Churchill hated and had destroyed.

[mushroom25]

but hitler was a painter some time before he aspired to politics.

[jno]

I've always thought Hitler's painting was okay

http://sobadsogood.com/2013/07/22/25-rarely-seen-artworks-painted-by-adolf-hitler/

Churchill's isn't bad (slideshow at the bottom)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/19/winston-churchill-paintings-morocco_n_1215511.html#s622311&;title=The_Valley_of

Bush's... not so good.

[humbersloop]

Thank you for bringing The Producers to mind sandy

"Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon!"

[sandyRoe]

Bailystock und Bloom what did they know about art appreciation? :-)

[Canary42]

... so that's why Prince Charles paints - a frustrated politician !

[Svejk]

Michael Foot was a great painter.

[Svejk]

Sorry, I was thinking of DaVinci.

[tonyav]

Dave isn't to bad a painter either, pretty good with the Whitewash anyway.

[boxtops]

There must be something about some careers which correlates with the Arts. Many medical people are often extremely talented musically.

[sandyRoe]

Yes. Jonathan Miller comes to mind

[DTCwordfan]

Actually it was Clementine Churchill that really hated the portrait, not Winston.

[sandyRoe]

It's said the pair of them chopped it up in the garden of No 10 and burnt it. But maybe that's just a yarn

[Peter Pedant]

Sandy 'it can't be found'
and no one thinks it is in a Berlin appartment or on the wall somewhere in Sicily

just one black and white photie

[Peter Pedant]

Stalin said at Postdam 1945

Truman plays the piano - and Attlee is an artist well paints, and I do nothing.

and no one said: yes you do Unclle Joe - you kill people .....

[sandyRoe]

You can see why they didn't much like it.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oddee.com%2Fitem_98664.aspx&tbnid=QE0bE18HFs8TlM:&docid=5arTXqbZ92hmRM&;h=519&w=450

[askyourgran]

Hitler should have stuck with house painting. Quite a lot of people like painting as a hobby, only these 'famous' people are given some recognition and their daubs priced accordingly.

[wolf63]

What happened to the bottom of Churchill 's legs?

[ludwig]

If only they'd let Hitler into art school, millions of lives could have been saved.

[sandyRoe]

Wolf63, maybe the artist knew Churchill very well and painted him like that to show he was legless most of the time.