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• Sitting Pretty • Painting

Benjamin A Pangilinan

United States

Painting, Ink on Canvas

Size: 30 W x 42 H x 1.5 D in

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About The Artwork

• At first glance, you might think that this image called "Sitting Pretty" would be about a man looking at you, who's got 2 black eyes; a veering nose; a long blue forehead; an oversized right ear; a long brown neck that looks like a dead tree; a brown goatee; and a partially dark brown hair glued to the very top. • Your thoughts may be right. • But actually, what I painted was supposed to be that of a brown husky - who is shown sitting on nothing, not even a chair. I painted the dog side-view, facing east, with its right leg shown dangling down diagonally toward the right bottom corner of the canvas. • Created on October 12, 2016 using multi-media techniques, I drew a female dog that is supposed to be Hillary Clinton (no pun intended); and I was inspired by her sudden surge in polls leading as the Democratic contender in 2016's U.S. Presidential Election over Republican nominee Donald Trump. Mrs. Clinton's wide lead of about 8 points - 52-44% - was largely caused by a public media replay of a 2005 audio recording of Mr. Trump's "Locker Room" banter when he bragged that because he is a celebrity, he could grab a woman's pussy, I guess when the moon begins to bloom. This outraged a lot of undecided voters of mostly women, and had put Hillary Clinton in a commanding position to win the November 8 election. • In other words, after months of tough campaigning against the non- politician billionaire and successful real estate builder. • At last, Mrs. Clinton looks like she would win the presidency; and you can say that she must be happy, and could afford to be "Sitting Pretty". • In the abstract, I portrayed Mrs. Clinton's favorable position in the form of a brown female husky wearing a blue sweater with a big butt in side-view sitting on top of nothing. No chair, nor a bar stool to sit on. At the very top, you'll see her looking east. What you thought was a man's blue forehead is supposed to be Mrs. Clinton's blue sweater; and the light brown goatee is supposed to be her butt, holding her shit just about ready to come off. • Please don't be angry if I did not paint a chair for her to sit, considering that she had been reported to have an advanced case of Parkinson's disease that could make her to suddenly collapse again, just like she did in September in downtown Manhattan when she joined the 15th Anniversary Celebration of 9/11. • Don't also feel bad if I failed to include a handkerchief and/or a glass of water she could use and/or drink in case she would start to cough. If I also painted the dog with no eye, it was because I did not want you to feel disturbed when you see her eye roiling again in circles once she experiences another bout of hard-to-diagnose medical episode. • But if you looked closely at the canvas, you will find these following things and familiar faces and things that I wanted to show you: (1) The Donald's face - which you might think is the man's right ear - positioned behind next to the dog's back on the left side, as if it's looking at you, begging for your vote. I had to show Mr. Trump behind Hillary (the Husky) because he is trailing her in popularity; (2) Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy's face with a blue forehead, shown prominently right there in the middle of the abstract, expressing his pure disbelief at the negative impact of Mr. Trump's 2005 audio replay; (3) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's brown face painted close to the right bottom corner looking up, waiting for Mrs. Clinton's poop to drop. Fyi, Mr. Assange is a Hillary political enemy, responsible for leaking "bombs", designed to hurt Mrs. Clinton regarding her ongoing Email Scandal; (4) FBI Director James Comey is shown being cradled by Hillary to show her appreciation of the director's decision to exonerate Mrs. Clinton from criminal conviction regarding her purported email mishandling of government classified information; (5) The dog's head - personified as Hillary's - is bolted to the canvas' top frame. This should stop Mrs. Clinton from collapsing. With this, there was no need for a chair. The absence of a chair would allow Mrs. Clinton to deploy her poop directly on Mr. Assange's face unobstructed; (6) House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose face is shown covering Mr. Gowdy's left cheek. I painted Mr. Ryan white to prove that he had washed his face after people began calling him wishy-washy for being unsure whether he should dump Mr. Trump; (7) Just below Mr. Trump's face appears a woman's breast, shaped like a perfectly-coned volcano, from which hangs the tail of the aso. I'm sure that if you're a man, no way would you miss noticing this element - the boob that is. The breast is not supposed to belong to any woman in particular; but you can assume that it could that of any of Mr. Trump's or Bill Clinton's past conquest. Whether it's Monica Lewinsky's; Paula Jones's; Marla Melania's - who nose? (nose?). • If I had more space, I could have perhaps added a lot more characters in this artwork, not only considering that the huge fight in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election is like no other in modern history. It is so messy, and that's why I had to show a lot of shit all over the canvas. I believe that it won't be easy to find an American who would be truly happy with the Election outcome. • My decision to cover the canvas with also a lot of blues was to express a feeling of disappointment and sadness at how the fight for the White House evolved. Even though "Sitting Pretty" is based on an important world event - the 2016 U.S. Election - my abstract is unlike Picassos's "Guernica", which became the world's most admired contemporary art (worth around $200 million) and which he painted mostly in black and grey in Spain in 1937 to express his feelings of bewilderment, depression, devastation, and hopelessness after the Nazis had collaborated with Spanish Nationalists during Spain's Civil War to bomb the city of Guernica in northern Spain. • And here we are 79 years later, and we often hear rumors of another world war. With a full scale World War III, I do not know where I'll be. How about you? And I also don't know how an elected Clinton or a Trump could handle the challenge, after making the 2016 Election perhaps the dirtiest, and most scandalous in American political history. • Incidentally, even though I had already featured 6 political figures in this abstract including Mrs. Clinton and Donald Trump, you may wonder why I chose not to include President Obama and Atty. General Loretta Lynch. The reason? I ran out of black paint.

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Painting:Ink on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:30 W x 42 H x 1.5 D in

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