Artists pool 6 liters of their blood to make painting protesting Trumpism

[boingboing]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/25/artists-pool-6-liters-of-their.html

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[StVincent]

At this rate, the NEA is never coming back.

[H4Z0]

For those playing at home, NEA stands for the National Endowment for the Arts.

[H4Z0]

Bloody good work.

I’ll see myself out.

[ficuswhisperer]

Not urine?

[CTG]

Just warn me if they whip up something special for Rick Santorum

[Boundegar]

Funny how body-fluid painting never seems to become mainstream.

[sockdoll]

(Bonus Disco-era Stan Lee in the background)

FACT CHECK: Blood in KISS Comic Book

[anon48584343]

Blood is a strong medium. Connotations galore.

[bibliophile20]

This feels like a plot hook for some World of Darkness blood magic ritual by the Circle of the Crone…

[HMSGoose]

I definitely find the symbolism much more powerful than “Trump is fat and has a small pee-pee” so it’s got that going for it.

[Beanolini]

@Boundegar

body-fluid painting never seems to become mainstream

Well, Marc Quinn’s ‘Self’, a self-portrait ‘created from ten pints of his own blood’ sold for $2.8 million not that long ago.

[anon48584343]

@Beanolini

Well, Marc Quinn’s ‘Self’, a self-portrait ‘created from ten pints of his own blood’ sold for $2.8 million not that long ago.

So, he made bank! Blood bank.

Try the steaks!

[anon35121463]

Also, there’s over 5 million copies of Serrano’s “Blood and Semen III”.

I mean, Metallica have been mainstream since The Black Album.