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Upon entering the exhibition we got, who we really were. The portrait of Trump depicted in a way which was honest. The hyper realism of a photographic copy is one way to think of honesty in our age, but merely we find this to be a beautified version of ourselves. The paint takes on the properties of skin, espousing a kind of dishonesty. Although one might speak of Trump as a kind of person who spits this kind of beautification of a lie, the viewers, or at least the attendees of the exhibition were quite unlikely to buy into such fallacies. I find this to be the unpopular truth to deal with, that the viewers always think they’re smarter than the object, that they are not the same as that which they deem despicable.

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Thus, in the time I found although we might want this man who we though would serve the greater good, who eschewed the favorable characteristics that we want to espouse to the world, someone who was okay to like, that your friends could say, you’re a good person for liking this guy, this candidate, this Bernie Sanders. The reality is that we were not offered four candidate saviors, but four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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In an internal way the piece dealt with hubris. This is certainly found in abundance among artists, people who value something they touch as worthy for others to admire. As though making art were serving a social good, or preventing a social ill. Social media personalities are often operating in the exact same mindset, that they are a poet, with words of such value.