Don Trump Jr. dismissed America’s hottest artist, Hunter Biden, suggesting the media would have melted down if he had exhibited some “fingerpainting” and then sold it for buckets of money to anonymous donors.
In a recent interview with Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, Trump Jr. pointed out that the work of Biden, a “journeyman” painter, is fetching more than some Picassos, and being sold to anonymous buyers, and the media turn a blind eye because of the artist’s surname.
“I take that one pretty personally, because I went through a lot,” Trump Jr. told Bozell of the controversy.
“What do you think would happen, Brent, if for, I don’t know, for example, Donald Trump, Jr. started finger-painting, like Hunter Biden, and started selling them to unknown buyers for half a million dollars?”
He added that a Picasso recently sold for $150,000, a pittance, compared to some of what Biden’s paintings go for.
“Hunter Biden is a journeyman artist who never really expressed any interest in art until, I guess, he wasn’t allowed to do crooked deals in China or the Ukraine or for Russian oligarchs with ties to human trafficking rings, or any of those things, anymore – now, he’s an artist,” Trump Jr. said.
“And imagine, if Donald Trump, Jr. did that, what the outrage would be. Imagine, the White House said, ‘Oh, we should fully support his career as an artist – but, we should also support the ability of the people who buy his ‘art’ to remain anonymous.’”
“You think it would be a story, Brent?” Trump Jr. continued. “Do you think that, maybe, would make the news?”
The Washington Post on Friday reported that a prominent New York City gallery will feature Biden’s work this fall, pricing it between $75,000 a painting and $500,000.
On Saturday, liberal CNN analyst Chris Cillizza posted an interview he did about Biden’s paintings with Sebastian Smee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post.
In response to being asked if Biden’s work was any good, Smee replied, “For me, not really.”
“I’ve only seen it in reproduction, so I’m sure I’m missing a lot: texture, layering, detail. Parts of them look technically impressive. But the style is eclectic in a way that makes his work feel neither one thing nor another,” Smee continued.
“Most great artists, whatever style of art they make, have been trying to make art all their lives. They are fully devoted to what they do. To me, Biden seems a bit of a dabbler,” said Smee. “His work has the feeling of an afterthought. It doesn’t feel like it needed to be made, except perhaps as a therapeutic exercise. I have no trouble with that. It’s as good a reason to make art as any. But if I were a museum curator, I would struggle to find compelling reasons to share it with the public.”
When asked how the “art world” has reacted to Biden, Smee noted, “Mostly, a shoulder shrug. A few people probably sniff the chance to make money from his notoriety. But for the most part, people with influence in the art world are looking at his work and thinking, ‘Nothing much to see here.’”
When asked how he would characterize Biden as an artist, Smee answered, “a cafe painter.”
“By which I mean, you see a certain kind of art in coffee shops, and some of it is OK and a lot of it is bad, and sometimes it’s surprisingly good. But you wouldn’t, unless you were related to the artist, spend more than $1,000 on it.”
Yet some fans, with the luxury of remaining anonymous, may pony up a half-million dollars for this “cafe” art.
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