Minnesota House Republican upset about painting in which Trump gropes a woman's crotch

[kpete]

Minnesota Rep. Josh Heintzeman doesn’t often criticize art on his Facebook page. But last week, the Republican from Nisswa went off on a painting currently on display in the Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis.

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The piece in question is called Standing Rock 2016. It’s about 8 feet tall and 10 feet wide, according to a report by MPR, and its size and bright color palette give it a lambent, twilit glow from a distance. A metal pipeline disappears under a glowing river and emerges from the mouth of a beast. Attack dogs with two heads rush at a small crowd of protesters, as fat cats in suits smoke cigars and look on. Brightly colored frogs emerge from the river as if to come to its defense, lashing out with their tongues.

And, in the bottom right hand corner, a clearly depicted President Donald Trump gropes the breast of a blindfolded Lady Justice, all the while grabbing at her crotch. This was the part of the painting Heintzeman disliked the most.

“There's a number of very controversial depictions but President Trump's is especially offencive [sic],” he wrote on Facebook last week. He pointed out that the painting (and others in a series) was funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board with a $10,000 grant.

“If ‘artists’ create this kind of thing on their own time fine,” he wrote, “but not on my dime.”

http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesota-house-republican-upset-about-painting-in-which-trump-gropes-a-womans-crotch/506509391

[blaze]

1. Here's a link to the MPR story

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/02/20/painters-exhibit-pays-tribute-to-standing-rock-protest?fbclid=IwAR31p94LfYa_EHOn26r_i8GTPbJCgsGozZsOQiYFJsaK2GZv8W-tLmIhOsA

[GeorgeGist]

2. Return his dime.

Problem solved.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. +1000

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Another conservative who thinks he has a Constitutional right to not be offended.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Not exactly -

“There's a number of very controversial depictions but President Trump's is especially offencive [sic],” he wrote on Facebook last week. He pointed out that the painting (and others in a series) was funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board with a $10,000 grant.

“If ‘artists’ create this kind of thing on their own time fine,” he wrote, “but not on my dime.”

http://www.citypages.com/news/minnesota-house-republican-upset-about-painting-in-which-trump-gropes-a-womans-crotch/506509391

He's upset about having his money used to pay for it.

[SoCalNative]

9. There are lots of things

that I am not happy that my taxes are paying for. He needs to get over it and move on as the rest of us do.

[Ms. Toad]

10. I wasn't making a case on the merits -

just pointing out that he wasn't complaining about being offended by the art. He was complaining about his money being used to pay for it.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. but you provided an opportunity

You gave an opportunity to point out we all disagree with at least something our taxes pay for, such as that particular rep's salary.

[mindem]

4. The only thing missing in the painting

is the snowflake that represents Heintzeman.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Yet, if Trump...

Actually grabbed another person’s crotch right in front of him he would be too terrified to say one word.

Take a seat, generic republican.

[gratuitous]

11. Why is that offensive, Mr. Heintzeman?

After all, Donald Trump brags to his friends about doing that very thing. Is it the pictorial depiction that offends you? Is it that Lady Justice still has some clothes on? Is it that Trump's groping isn't more prominently featured and you have to look so hard to pick it out?