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Brickbat: Cockfighting

Charles Oliver | 9.11.2013 6:00 AM

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Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, raided a museum and seized a painting showing Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama musclebound and nude, facing each other with "massive erect penises and their fists raised."

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    Russia is so backward that they find offensive the very idea of a piece of art depicting an interracial couple?

  2. Snark Plissken   12 years ago

    Okay, this I totally had to Google. The Telegraph has a SFW pixelated version. Obama's is gold with bells.

    1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

      That's an inordinate amount of pixilation. But worse, why did you feel the need to search for this image? Worst, why did I click on your link?

    2. db   12 years ago

      It's actually even funnier. Huffpo has an unpixelated version. Putin has two penises; red and green, and Obama's is propped up by a stack of books or money (can't tell which) while he is pinching it at the base to keep it hard.

      1. SweatingGin   12 years ago

        Thats... a lot of cocks. Dicks everywhere.

        Maybe could be licensed and used as a random illustration in Warty Hugeman's adventures?

        1. db   12 years ago

          The image of Putin is actually what you would see if you were to look directly at Warty Hugeman wearing the timesuit.

          1. SweatingGin   12 years ago

            It's exactly has I imagined him.

    3. Louis Cypher   12 years ago

      The museum's curator Alexander Donskoi said the museum was temporarily shut down, suggesting that the gesture was political.

      "I do not understand why it's necessary to mix arts and politics?" he told AFP.

      Some people really are clueless.

      1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

        I thought all art was political. It certainly isn't decorative.

      2. Zeb   12 years ago

        And someone should tell him that most things people do are not does out of necessity. Especially things having to do with art.

  3. sticks   12 years ago

    Better than Friday funnies.

    http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1335.....NG-570.jpg

    1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

      That artist may not be able to draw human feet, but he seems to have penises down.

      1. Snark Plissken   12 years ago

        It's a woman, man.

        The attraction point of the museum is represented by a graphic painting by Vera Donskaya-Khilko from Sankt. Petersburg, picturing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama, standing face to face, ready for a fight and using as weapons their?huge limbs. Clearly, some advantage is given to Putin who is fitted with two "heads", fact explained (right in front of the painting) as "a symbol of hiperpotency".

        1. Bardas Phocas   12 years ago

          Someone likes peni.
          I'm assuming the red and yellow dragon, with a tumescent penis, is China. What about the other two penal dragons? Japan? India?

          1. mr simple   12 years ago

            Two? You might want to check again. Or not.

            I can't stop staring at it. There is so much going on. There's Obama's staff or spear wrapped in money, his brass bells, The sausage hanging from the trees, the totems that like what they see, the gas can by Putin, his foxtails. I just can't even

            1. Bardas Phocas   12 years ago

              Also, the mushrooms.
              Penis.

              1. Zeb   12 years ago

                Don't neglect the vagina flowers.

    2. H. ReardEn   12 years ago

      Needs more labels.

      1. sticks   12 years ago

        "penis" "penis" "penis" "penis" "not penis"

        1. sarcasmic   12 years ago

          500 days of summer "Penis!"

    3. sarcasmic   12 years ago

      That's too funny.

  4. mr simple   12 years ago

    Maybe Putin needed something new to go over his mantle. That will really tie the room together.

    1. db   12 years ago

      He should make it a state gift to Obama.

  5. Zakalwe   12 years ago

    Where can I buy prints? Christmas is easy this year.

  6. Zakalwe   12 years ago

    According to Donskaya-Khilko, the multi-colored dragons represent the Chinese people.

    Russians have some different stereotypes about Chinese people than I do.

  7. Zeb   12 years ago

    Now that's art!

    I don't think it's very good, but it's fucking hilarious. And still less disturbing than nude Obama on the unicorn.

    1. Snark Plissken   12 years ago

      WAY less disturbing.

  8. Francisco d Anconia   12 years ago

    PICTURES OR IT DOESN'T EXIST!

    1. Francisco d Anconia   12 years ago

      Commentariat is doing your job oliver.

  9. pagal   12 years ago

    Obama is wearing the Nobel Peace prize medal, while Putin is wearing a Reset button. I noticed those things because I'm less enthralled by penises than the rest of you.

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