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In spite of claims otherwise, Saul does not make political art.
These arent just highly colored screwball jokes.
There are also four hands with paintbrushes, in the act of action-painting this de Kooning update.
Saul describes the Trump painting as sort of a bubbling mess of paint.
But a controlled one.
Its almost like Hitlers mustache being able sometimes to conjure the guttural consciousness of ominousness and political chaos.
No one gets out of Sauls visual and political world unaccosted.
But hes thoughtful, too.
Its a picture of fear and fury, an apparition of a hardened mind turned defensive and mean.
*The original version of this article mistakenly identified George Grosz as George Gross.
