{"id":429,"date":"2003-04-15T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=429"},"modified":"2003-04-15T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T01:54:48","slug":"ars_gratia_arti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/15\/ars_gratia_arti.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ars gratia artis<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Savage me, O Mighty Wyrm of Tikrit!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/rowena_king-dragon.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"163\" border=\"0\" align=right hspace=10 \/>Fantasy artist Rowena is <a title=\"NY Daily News - front - Daily News Exclusive: Shag-dad art is mine!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/75594p-69826c.html\">torqued<\/a> that some of her original oils were hanging in Saddam&#8217;s love nest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Rowena said she still can&#8217;t believe something in her artwork might have touched a chord in someone as evil as Saddam. <br \/>\n&#8220;That would be a horrifying thought,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He in his twisted mind must have read something into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8212; the description of &#8220;King Dragon&#8221; is given as <i>&#8220;a chained woman clad in a tattered bikini arches her back as a dragon&#8217;s talons reach toward her.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>No, can&#8217;t imagine what Saddam would have seen in <i>that<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they can be donated to the Baghdad Museum.  In 3,000 years, someone might think they&#8217;re fine art.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_04_01_archive.html#200153269\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy artist Rowena is torqued that some of her original oils were hanging in Saddam&#8217;s love nest. 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