“The Blue Spokes-Boy” by Alejandro Rivas is perhaps ill-timed after Spicer’s recent resignation.
Among the seven works one will find Kellyanne: Dancing Around the Truth by James Warhola (Andy’s nephew), based on Edgar Degas’ Dancer Tilting and Ivanka Trump and others also get the art/parody treatment. Mad editor-in-chief, John Ficarra told Vanity Fair,
“There’s obviously a huge shortage of Trump material out there and we pride ourselves on being trailblazers.
Seriously, Putin asked us to do it.”
But is the magazine’s treatment giving Trump just what he wants by making him the subject of iconic works of art? May be. Provided he has any art history awareness.
“Trump Crossing the Delaware,” illustration by Richard Williams, based on Emmanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”
“Donald’s World” by Mark Fredrickson, based on “Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth
(Artwork, Mad Magazine; via Vanity Fair)
