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bOb FREIMARk

Lives and works in Morgan Hill, CA USA

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE http://bobfreimark.com

AMERICAN CRUSADE: In Stuttgart, rumors about the first gulf war knew, photographs are not sufficient and the artisanship of the painter’s
abounded and the painter set to work on a large picture, Isn’t It About brush can elicit more intense feeling. Once “Operation Desert Storm”, the
Time for Another war? It pictures a large human body, hanging upside battle to secure the oil in kuwait started, Freimark made a lithograph, Free
down. The carcass has been beheaded. we see its genitals on top and kuwait in which an abundance of oil derricks, some of them suggesting
red and black spots, indicating bullet holes on the mottled grey body. The agitated humans, are neatly arranged in five rows. During the second, more
image was appropriated from the photographs of Mussolini’s body hanging ferocious and ever-lasting Iraq war, the artist produced a large number
from its feet in the Plaza del Duomo in Milan in 1945. But as Susan Sontag of watercolors, drawings and prints, which tell the dismal story in an
indirect way. george Bush II has not allowed us to see body bags, which
had been such a powerful indication of the thousands of soldiers who were
killed in vietnam. So, Freimark has made paintings of body bags, such as
Man and wife: Iraq, done in watercolor and acrylic in variations of grays,
depicting two dead bodies who seem to be floating in nowhere. Others are
bleeding, or are packed and thrown to the ground. There is a watercolor
of disembodied legs and arms, another of a bleeding blanket. These body
bags are witnesses to the criminality of the current war, in which, at the
time of this writing, close to 3,000 American troops have been killed and
a vast number wounded. Over 50,000 Iraqis are dead and there are an
untold-indeed untold-number of wounded and displaced. Civil war has
broken out. In 2006, the artist made a watercolor of a large pile of skulls
with blood flowing from a cloud above. Called Stuff Happens, it bears the
caption, “I saw Jesus in the corner reaching out and weeping... we have all
been snookered by g. Bush and the other rotten gang, Cheney and Rove
and Rummy and all the flathead gnomes who congregate in washington
to serve mammon. we are up to our necks in shit and they are shooting
at our heads. Rummy summarized it all:’STUFF HAPPENS’”.

 Free KUWaIt 1993 LITHOgRAPH 21x30 IN. / 53x56 CM.

 tHe INteNse PaIN OF DOLOres HUerta, sUFFereD at tHe HaNDs OF tHe
saN FraNCIsCO POLICe, 1988 ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANvAS wITH TRAPUNTO, PLUS
gROMMETS AND ROPE IN PLAIN wOOD FRAME 108 1/4x70 ¾ IN. / 275x175 CM.
Dolores Huerta was standing on the curb with hundreds of others, protesting
george HwBush’s policies. Because she was a union representative (United
Farm workers) the police attacked her and beat the 54 year old grandmother
to the ground. Her spleen was knocked out of her body -medics said she
had about one more minute to live. She was awarded the Freedom Medal by
President Clinton.
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