Sorry for a long silence — on the road. My hotel near the highway displays this image of, I quote, President Eisenhower: I assume this means there’s another President Eisenhower, and there are gaps in my historical knowledge. More soon.
While I’m not intimately familiar with Ike, I can see his likeness in that statue. The question is, what period of Eisenhower’s life is this statue supposed to be from?
Oh good grief! Reminds me of how my older brother decided to change majors at UCSB. He started as a Fine Arts major. He’s a very talented artist. He said he put a lot of thought into his first two or three assignments and spent hours getting them just right. His work wouldn’t get a passing glance, while what he would refer to as dreck was fawned over. So, he said, once he figured out what made this guy tick, he decided to play the game. Next assignment was to do a large painting depicting the passage of time. So he stretched and gessoed his canvas, then took a big blob of black paint and put it at the top, a little off-center and timed how long it took to drip to the bottom, and affixed the stopwatch there. The guy raved, and that was it. He was done with ‘Fine Arts’.
I suspect the sculptor was from Easter Island…
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Looks like a Google Gemini AI-generated version of Ike.
Probably looked close enough for the government contract 60 years ago.
Pretty sure that's Jamal Eisenhower. Not Ike.
While I’m not intimately familiar with Ike, I can see his likeness in that statue. The question is, what period of Eisenhower’s life is this statue supposed to be from?
It’s expressionist sculpting. The square jawline captures the essence, the masculinity, the heroism of General Ike.
Applying the same expressionist style to our current Commander in Chief would result in something like Withered Wojak.
They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
I searched images. Yours looks nothing like him. Nor does this one:
https://www.presidentsusa.net/eisenhowerveteransmonument.html
I wasn’t aware that Saint George Floyd had changed his name to Eisenhower.
They made a Big Mike version of Ike.
Oh good grief! Reminds me of how my older brother decided to change majors at UCSB. He started as a Fine Arts major. He’s a very talented artist. He said he put a lot of thought into his first two or three assignments and spent hours getting them just right. His work wouldn’t get a passing glance, while what he would refer to as dreck was fawned over. So, he said, once he figured out what made this guy tick, he decided to play the game. Next assignment was to do a large painting depicting the passage of time. So he stretched and gessoed his canvas, then took a big blob of black paint and put it at the top, a little off-center and timed how long it took to drip to the bottom, and affixed the stopwatch there. The guy raved, and that was it. He was done with ‘Fine Arts’.
Hotel California?
I stared at the picture for a minute. Because suddenly I wondered if I was remembering Eisenhower correctly. 😂
It's not an Easter Is;and statue, but reminiscent.
That disembodied head reminds me of something out of Monty Python.