Today on Godwin's Law Art Revue we have Adolf Hitler's earliest (and only?) self portrait. He apparently signed his initials over his head as he sat on the stone bridge.
Where are they written? Are they in mid-air? His megalomania appears to have been going strong even at age 21, as he pointed his own figure out on this painting as if painters are supposed to do that.
I like the watercolors reflected in the water, this one almost has some soul! The shadows of the bridge look realistic reflected in the water. This might be my favorite Hitler painting!
Technically, this is much worse than Hitler's painting. Where is the mirror supposed to be facing? If it's showing me Bush's face, then it should be tilted to the right, but it looks tilted slightly in the other direction. And Bush's face is tilted in the other direction! Also, what's up with his back muscles? They look like his front. He clearly painted this with no sense of how others see him (a common complaint against Bush).
Comparing these though, they reveal that we all have moments of vulnerability, and look both wistful and depressing. Sad and poorly thought out, again like many other choices he made in his life.
The bottom line:
We agree that Hitler's painting here deserves 3 mustaches,
whereas Bush's only deserves 2 out of 4
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