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Breitbart “Fight” Print (36×48″ Limited Edition Canvas)
Product Description
36″ x 48″ giclee on canvas, stretched and glazed (ONLY 43 numbered and artist autographed editions will be made available; when they’re gone, they’re gone!)
ARTIST: David Bugnon
When it came to the cause of truth, Andrew Breitbart was one in a million: a provocateur par excellence. America witnessed his combatant spirit up close and personal when he and Hannah Giles blew the cover off of ACORN.
Andrew would happily fight people, organizations and governments with tooth, fang and claw if he sensed any anti-American BS. David Bugnon’s piece captures Breitbart’s essence as a contrarian: confident and geared-up.
Make room on your wall for a limited edition reproduction of Bugnon’s painting. We should all emulate the moxie Andrew perfected for that which is just and true. Hang your print by the front door so as you depart your house and dive into the cultural trenches you will be ever mindful, thanks to Andrew’s example, that there are things worth scrapping for—and America’s founding documents are definitely one of them.
…and now, the punchline:
Price:$3,999.95
Somewhere a copy of Dogs Playing Poker is being put into storage to make room for the newest acquisition.
To be fair, you can also get a 12″ x 16″ paper print for a mere $29.95, but “ONLY 1000 will be made available!” presumably because any more than that would require another trip to Kinkos.
Also. Velvet, or get the fuck out.
(Added): Best comment from MoeLarryAndJesus:
For four thousand dollars I can have his corpse dug up. But I sure don’t want it in my living room.





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The artist captured his weak, thin-lipped mean mouth perfectly.
Why are his arms so stumpy?
Four K for something that looks worse than a WoW dork’s avatar? …and Jon McNaughton kicks self for not thinking of this first…
I had just eaten. No fair.
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I think it’s because his head’s so big.
I see a cloud-hyena and a cloud-death skull over his massive left shoulder…
A fool and his money…
At least every moron who buys one of these will have that much less to donate to wingnut campaigns.
Used Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones as the base?
I’m especially struck by the close resemblance to Jesus. This is eerie!
I’m also impressed that the painter’s name is French for “bunion,” which, you know, is kind of like a pearl in an oyster. There is a cosmology at work here.
They say art captures the true essence of a soul… Breitbart was an infant in a man’s body and a mind suited for the middle ages… -ahh!-… magnifique!
For four thousand dollars I can have his corpse dug up. But I sure don’t want it in my living room.
OK, I am now going to the ER to get stitches from repeatedly slamming my head into the desk.
FILLED. WITH. WIN. !!11eleventy!
I’ll bet that St. Louis corpse-pisser and her hubby are either in on this
griftfine business opportunity, or kicking themselves for not dreaming it up first.And this child of Team Breitbart will order one for every room, once her legal ship comes in, so to speak.
Adorable people, every one of them!
Eggzacktly.
And I love this:
Folks, “giclée” is essentially a somewhat fancy version of inkjet printing. It’s done on what for all intents and purposes is a giant full-color inkjet printer. The term “giclée” (from the French word for “spurt” or “squirt”) was created as a marketing tool because it sounded much more arty than “fancy inkjet printer”. It generally costs around $5 a print to do.
The grift is strong with this one.
HA HA HA SWEET MAMA MCGILLICUDDY
Look, what’s with that barely-visible peach fuzz? Grizzled-wino stubble or get out. He always looked like he just slept in/under his car.
Yeeeeeah, I think anyone who drops that kind of money on something like this will take care of the glazing all by themselves.
You pay extra because it’s real canvas, not textured paper.
(There are inkjet printers that can do billboard sections, or print on just about anything. Trade shows can be wonderful.)
they sure cleaned him up. He looks like he’s had a professional barber job, from freshly-washed-and-styled hair to a real shave (with, probably, hot towel and bay rum used after). I don’t recall ever seeing a photo of him looking that good when he was alive.
stretched and glazed – an apt description of Andrew’s morals, n’est ce pas?
“I’ll take ‘Corny Hagiography’ for $4,000, Alex”
You know what would make this inkjet-print TEH AWESOME?
Photoshopping a sky-goatse over Breitbart’s right shoulder, so the rays of heavenly light falling upon him are emanating from a giant asshole.
HALF-MAN! HALF-MAN! HALF-MAN!
It’s Game of Thrown-up Breitbart!
I’ll take that in black velvet edition, with party darts.
Hmmm. I find it interesting that he has chosen to protect his shoulders and forearms with plates of steel armor, all the while leaving his head entirely unprotected.
I guess it’s just not that surprising that he’s dead – he was apparently too stupid to do a basic forearms / head prioritization…
ahahaha, I clicked the link. “Patriot Depot: Supplies for the Conservative Revolution” Can I get a toilet plunger in a flag motif?
Is this a man or an armadillo?
Because his arms are so stumpy??? He was the polar opposite of “the long arm of the Law”. He was short armed and mentally dangerous. spent extra $ for the longer sized pitchfork, couldn’t really comfortably DO torches.
Honestly, it’s like I’ve been saying since Bu$hCo took office, 23%ers are the ones of us whose ancestors were the ones of them who screwed around with Neanderthals. The short arms are a dead give-away, do what you will with the puns.
Mr Bugnon isn’t very serious in his devotional to the role-playing arts. A far more realistic vision of Sir Andrew would show the ever present goblet of box red wine and a cloak of Snuggie remnants – languidly draped over his shoulder.
Looking for a better deal? For $13.61 plus shipping and handling, I will send you a pristine dot-matrix printout of this stapled to a used wife-beater. Send your credit card number and social security number to mosttrustworthybusinessman@lagosmyeggos.ng .
I smell evil liberal valuez in this Patriot Depot….
“When it came to the cause of truth” Andrew Breitbart was one of the biggest lying suzzball’s the world has ever know. I rejoice in his death.
I imagine Andrew Breitbart as more of Ser Dontos-type character, except without any of the chivalry.
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What happened to O’keefe? Are they implying that bony, pubescent, dorky fan of pimp dress-up was actually BREITBART?
What You said JennOfArk! All I can add is if this had been painted on Velvet by the late “America’s Shittiest Painter (of light!)” – once that thing hit Wall-Mart, there’d be no stopping it!
OMG. Thomas Kinkade paints and peddles from beyond the grave.
Barry and Michelle had better fill up that Chester A. Arthur punch bowl, the third Ronald Raygun portrait from death is about to hit the East Room.
this kind of puts a new potential spin on ancient cave drawings, and neandethal “art”, ceremony, and any attempt to develop a theory of an ancient civilization by the scholarly analysis of a few surviving artifacts.
imagine 15000 years into the future, when little of our times remains, is recognizable, much less capable of being contextualized. what if this is the clue upon which we are judged and recreated?
Oh also . . . those are short arms. As in life, his proportions and perspectives were twisted, misshappen and out of normal human balance.
The Brentwood Speedbump™©®* was a senior officer in the 102nd Chairborne, and as such – and very unlike your own service – head injuries were a feature, not a bug.
On the other hand, bulked up shoulders, arms, chests – or at least the appearance of same – are essential traits for every aspiring Internet Tuff Guy.
*TBogg Industries, All Rights Reserved
Those appear to be stratocumulus clouds in the foreground.
The arms may be stumpy but that dead fucker’s at least 8,000 feet tall.
That’s the saddest thing since forever.
Wait on, Breitbart never had no shadow under his chin. It was a curtain of fat hanging all the way from his maxilla to his clavicle. It must be the government garotte used to kill him – what shockingly bad taste.
And yeh, those arms…it looks like a scan of Gimli with AB’s head phopped on. And since when do you wear your belt buckle on top of your right hip? And that is pretty shitty scroll work on that armour as well. And he wants $160k for his work? Jeezuz, you could hire a top-line professional digital artist for that much – in fact, just for the 4 grand.
His back doesn’t seem to be protected; certainly the backs of his arms aren’t. What an opportunity for an unscheduled job promotion! (His armor must be the discount version of parade armor: showy but not very useful.)
Five bucks a print? Gee I’d love to know where you get your giclees printed, PW! It is done by inkjet but a sophisticated inkjet printer with 8 jets using archival quality ink. So the same, only not.
As others have said the proportions are laughable. I think what the artist did was try to get that magisterial look of looking WAAY up at the still dead Breitbart, hence the foreshortened limbs, but didn’t bother with his head.
Was Breitfart pitching a remake of “Gladiator” when he cakked?
After this pic spreads far and wide via the intertubes, Conservative Mullets are coming back bigtime!
I know an artist who has one. He was the first in his circle to spring for one and for a number of years he made a fair amount of income renting it out to other artists at around $30 a print, which they would turn around and sell for $75 to $150.
“imagine 15000 years into the future….what if this is the clue upon which we are judged and recreated?”
In that event, both our own Imperial epoch as well as the tiny 200 year hiccup of proto-Republic that led up to it, will be very well represented.
Encoded in this icon is all of the information necessary for future historians to piece together the core causes of our massive fail.
It is my hope that out of this limited edition, that at least one of Mr. Bugnon’s prints survive the coming dark age to both tell our story, and to serve as a warning.
I would say Cumulonimbus. But I may be wrong. It’s happened before.
LMAO, I thought you’d blown a fuse TBOGG.
don’t be mean, he lost his forearms in a battle.
Do we need to re-estimatate his height?
I did McFancy McMegan math to come up with the original 8,000 foot guess which means he could be anywhere from 800,000 to .08 feet tall….
LOL
I know, Kinkade had occured to me, mostly because of the smaltz factor – this work lacks Kinkade’s tradmark lurid colors.
I did a post on my blog about a year and a half back, titled Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Shite, and the day after the dude croaked, that post got 10,500 hits. Judging from the comments, some of them were from people who thought he was an artist. Snerk.
Did you notice how the Ass_gawd_ian look-alike has weirdly stubby arms? Can’t really swing that Model T of a sword with those (if it really mattered).
[Video] The Saga Of Biorn
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With the tragic loss of Thomas Kinkaide, I think we might have a worthy replacement in Mr. Bugnon
Substance McGravitas sheds a little light on the situation.
Goatse Light.
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He’s ALIVE!! HE’s ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!
Perhaps if 39,990 of us each pitch in a penny we could buy it and torture it, possibly in the driveway of the artist’s residence?
The noble canines in Dogs Playing Poker had character. Andrew had none and the hallucination represented in this icky giclee has less than none.
I wonder how much the list of buyers is worth to telemarketers? A short list, but rife with possibilities.
I want a good ole fashioned Amerukin “Freedom squirt” not none of this Frenchie shit
Don’t believe the cover story about this picture being painted by some talentless hack.
The picture was found in Breitbart’s attic.. It started off looking exactly like Breitbart, way back in his younger days. They they both changed, but only one of them for the better.
Just like Dorian Grey, only backwards.
This would also come in handy to immediately clue any females entering the house that they should stop, turn and run away as fast as possible.
Bionic is correct about the price of similar prints. My husband is a wildlife photographer and it costs about $50 each to do prints in that size using good artist-quality paper and archival ink, if you consider the calibration tests and test prints to ensure proper printing before producing a final product. That’s not counting the cost to purchase and maintain the printer. I’ve seen the canvas in our paper catalog, but was never interested in getting some so don’t recall the price for that and I’m too lazy to go out to the studio and look it up, but it’s probably a little more than the paper we print on. When we got our first large-format printer about twelve or so years ago, it cost even more than now. You could probably, using cheap paper and inks and doing no quality set-up and tests, produce prints for somewhere around $10 each.
That said, even if this painting were printed to the highest standards on the best available media, it would be worth about $5 if used to decorate a 3-year-old’s birthday party, where the lack of perspective and the hilarity of the subject matter would make it coincide nicely with Ronald the other clown in the bright yellow pants on the paper party plates.
$150, it says right here.
The rest is for the exhumation.
Price:
$3,999.95
But according to The Bradford Exchange, it is guaranteed to increase in value.
You have the original Reagan in Bright Yellow Pants painting? WOW!
Too bad he didn’t paint Andy in his blue snuggly with the wine glass…I guess that would be too realistic for the rubes that’ll que up for their chance to own a piece of the Breitbart fantasy.
With those arms, he looks like a king.
T. Rex!