That’s not Freddy Mercury. It’s “Golden Voice” dude with a mustache – because the teeth are jacked up. But my husband just said that was a great fucked-up picture of Santana. Santana minus his guitar.
Mama, just killed a man,
Took my paintbrush and my paint.
Freddie Mercury, he ain’t.
Mama, art has just begun
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away …
Okay, it’s the best I can do without being medicated.
“This my neighbor, Nursultan Tuleiakbay. He is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get painting of myself with tiny t-rex arm, he cannot afford. Great success!”
This is the first time I’m leaving a comment and the only thing I can say is that you are all wrong. The artist clearly was inspired by an image of Borat.
I thought this guy was self-taught at first. Evidently he has a BFA, meaning he should’ve gotten a proper education on how to make things look anatomically accurate and how to give them dimension and all that. I understand that he’s going for a more expressionistic feel (, and I can appreciate that. Maybe the general lack of dimension in most of his pantings can also be attributed to a stylistic choice. But goddamn, that anatomy is just terrible, and combined with the flatness and chunky lines and colors, it makes him look like he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. This guy seriously needs to practice capturing human anatomy before putting anything up for sale.
I took painting in my last semester of college. I majored in biology, not art. If my non-art major self tried to get away passing of shit like this as a completed piece, the professor would’ve failed me and verbally bitchslapped me for being stupid enough for thinking this was anywhere near acceptable.
“Copyright? Check. Certificate of authenticity? Check. Signed and numbered? Check? Inflated $4200 “original price”? Check. Spell check? Fuck it, he’s dead anyway. What’s he gonna do, sue me?”
His description says it’s acrylic AND oil paint? Unless the acrylic paint was only used to prime the canvas before he started painting (in which case mentioning the acrylic is totally unnecessary) the paint is going to start to crack and peel off that masterpizza in no time.
So BenWill happens to be the father of one of my best friends and he is actually a really good artist. My father, another artist, loves his work and has an BenWill original hanging in our living room. I will say the proportions of the arms on this one are not a great representation of his work, but unlike what has been said in the comments he does NOT have any real formal art training other than like 2 or 3 classes taken 15 or 20 years ago.
January 11, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I didn’t know Freddie suffered from Withered Limb Syndrome…
January 11, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I love that the artist provides his own “View it in a Room”.
January 11, 2011 at 4:49 pm
And my right hand is really a penis.
January 11, 2011 at 4:50 pm
I see a little silhouette uh…tiny hand?
January 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm
See what happens when you wear armbands that are too tight? Now listen to mama!
January 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Hey! I’m crazy chicken arm! ‘Stead of an arm, I got a drumstick! Now give me candy!
January 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm
What did Freddie do to deserve this?!?!?!?!?!?!
January 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Did assprint chick paint this?
January 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm
“Carrie”
http://www.etsy.com/listing/49822618/janis-joplin-30-inch-abstract-original
January 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm
did the artist exhume the body to paint this?
January 11, 2011 at 5:16 pm
“Under Pressure” indeed! he looks like he’s about to implode!
January 11, 2011 at 5:17 pm
That’s not Freddy Mercury. It’s “Golden Voice” dude with a mustache – because the teeth are jacked up. But my husband just said that was a great fucked-up picture of Santana. Santana minus his guitar.
January 11, 2011 at 5:17 pm
Murcery poisoning
January 11, 2011 at 5:18 pm
You know, if this guy studies anatomy/proportion and spelling, he could do well. I kind of like his color use…
January 11, 2011 at 5:19 pm
aw. this makes me sad & i don’t know why.
January 11, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I thought this was the cover art for the new season of My Name is Earl.
January 11, 2011 at 5:22 pm
Even Freddie Mercury would think this is too gay. By the way, where did the artist even find a room that grainy to view his creation in?
January 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm
omg, I didn’t expect hilarity as soon as the page loaded and choked. I should have known better.
January 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm
What Gallery does this guy show at?
The gallery price is $4200 but his Etsy price is $498. I think the gallery is ripping him off!
January 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
I beg to differ, this is just ‘Butthead’ with a mustache.
January 11, 2011 at 5:27 pm
My reaction: “Oooh Freddie Mercury I want i … AAAGH!!! No no no no no.”
January 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Mama, just killed a man,
Took my paintbrush and my paint.
Freddie Mercury, he ain’t.
Mama, art has just begun
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away …
Okay, it’s the best I can do without being medicated.
January 11, 2011 at 5:30 pm
It is a lovely print of Jason Lee. I bet the idiot who didn’t buy it for $4200 in 2009 feels real stupid now.
January 11, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Hold me closer, tiny-hand-ster.
January 11, 2011 at 5:45 pm
I would totally buy this if the seller offered it as a paint-by-number kit!
January 11, 2011 at 5:47 pm
I just want to point out that it’s not an Abstract painting……. and a horrible horrible horrible waste of paint.
January 11, 2011 at 5:47 pm
It is ideed the spitting image of Jason lee as Earl complete with wife beater. Can we get the artist to do a portrait of Mimi Hendrix aka Crabman?
January 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm
I have yet to read the comments, so I’m not sure if this was already pointed out…
Jason Lee, My Name is Earl, anyone??
http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/files/2009/11/Jason-Lee-My-Name-Is-Earl.jpg
January 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm
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January 11, 2011 at 6:01 pm
This is so bad it makes LeRoy Nieman seem a little less horrible.
January 11, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Well, there’s yet another piece of my past shat on by Etsy.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go listen to “We Are The Champions” and flip through my Queen scrapbook to regain my perspective.
January 11, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Mayhaps it’s a current likeness?
January 11, 2011 at 6:16 pm
My hand is minim, Etsyyy.
So very teeny wee-ee-ny.
My hand is bantam
So lilliputian
Not monumental, or even faintly normal, or of this world…
January 11, 2011 at 6:17 pm
^And yes, I’m aware I really stretched the meaning of some of those words in order to make it rhyme. And the fact that most of them don’t. I admit it.
January 11, 2011 at 6:42 pm
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January 11, 2011 at 7:20 pm
“This my neighbor, Nursultan Tuleiakbay. He is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get painting of myself with tiny t-rex arm, he cannot afford. Great success!”
-Borat
January 11, 2011 at 8:10 pm
This is the first time I’m leaving a comment and the only thing I can say is that you are all wrong. The artist clearly was inspired by an image of Borat.
January 11, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Nevermind. #31 KibblesNBits got it.
January 11, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Everyone, sing it with me:
“BenWill, BenWill fcuk you!”
January 11, 2011 at 10:50 pm
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January 11, 2011 at 11:50 pm
If the artist was going for a hybrid of Borat meets John C. McGinley with dinosaur arms, well I say he NAILED it.
January 12, 2011 at 4:03 am
I want to comment, but everything I come up with contains the word “fist,” and I just KNOW that will get me voted down.
January 12, 2011 at 5:40 am
I like that all of the artist’s view-it-in-a-rooms seem to be his paintings photoshopped into pictures from furniture websites.
January 12, 2011 at 6:31 am
I thought this guy was self-taught at first. Evidently he has a BFA, meaning he should’ve gotten a proper education on how to make things look anatomically accurate and how to give them dimension and all that. I understand that he’s going for a more expressionistic feel (, and I can appreciate that. Maybe the general lack of dimension in most of his pantings can also be attributed to a stylistic choice. But goddamn, that anatomy is just terrible, and combined with the flatness and chunky lines and colors, it makes him look like he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. This guy seriously needs to practice capturing human anatomy before putting anything up for sale.
I took painting in my last semester of college. I majored in biology, not art. If my non-art major self tried to get away passing of shit like this as a completed piece, the professor would’ve failed me and verbally bitchslapped me for being stupid enough for thinking this was anywhere near acceptable.
January 12, 2011 at 6:32 am
Hm, I have no idea why I left a (, in the middle of my post. That’s a tad awkward.
January 12, 2011 at 6:44 am
I don’t know what any of you people are complaining about. It is a lovely picture of Gerald McRaney
January 12, 2011 at 7:09 am
“Copyright? Check. Certificate of authenticity? Check. Signed and numbered? Check? Inflated $4200 “original price”? Check. Spell check? Fuck it, he’s dead anyway. What’s he gonna do, sue me?”
January 12, 2011 at 8:29 am
Reminds me of SNL’s Lawrence Welk sketch with Denise.. Doo dooo-do…
http://ln-s.net/8MQK
January 12, 2011 at 9:29 am
“NO! NO! NO!NO!NO! NO! NO! NO!
Oh Mama Mia, Mama Mia!’
Another graduate of the “Can you draw Sparky?” art school
January 12, 2011 at 9:56 am
Two questions –
Why did Leroy Neiman paint John McGinley from “Scrubs” and why did he make him a thalidomide victim?
January 12, 2011 at 10:44 am
Why, this would look lovely next to my American Fag!
January 12, 2011 at 11:26 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/32037479/vogue-stella-30-inch-runway-fashion-oil?ref=v1_other_1
“It took me like 3 hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It’s probably the best drawing I’ve ever done.”
January 12, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Aw, Freddie. . .who knew you were the offspring of Jeff Foxworthy and a T Rex?
January 12, 2011 at 6:45 pm
So we all know Freddie was gay, but I think painting an erect phallus across his chest is still a little inappropriate.
January 13, 2011 at 5:31 am
His description says it’s acrylic AND oil paint? Unless the acrylic paint was only used to prime the canvas before he started painting (in which case mentioning the acrylic is totally unnecessary) the paint is going to start to crack and peel off that masterpizza in no time.
January 19, 2011 at 12:38 pm
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