Saddam Hussein Giga Chad, GigaChad

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Last updated 13 junho 2024

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But Saddam is less elevated in his taste than Hitler. The Fuhrer was more pretentious: Leda and the Swan is a classical myth. By contrast, there are no high cultural allusions whatsoever in the Saddamite paintings. These have the iconography of psychotic p---. They're certainly not Islamic - in early medieval Iraq the brilliant art of the Abbasids included splendid palaces with figurative decorations celebrating the pleasures of the ruler: hunting, food, music. The numerousness of Saddam's palaces follows a tradition in which Islamic rulers had palaces like desert caravans. But there's not much that is culturally embedded about his taste in paintings. They are from the universal cultural gutter - pure dreck. They look spraypainted, in a rampant hyperbolic style where all men are muscular, all women have giant breasts and missiles are metal cocks. These are art for the barely literate, or the barely sentient, dredged from some red-lit back alley of the brain.