The tea party movement is taking it to the arts. Just got a press release about an artist who calls herself “Megrit” and has created a work dubbed “The Tea Party,” a still life of a teapot, cup and saucer and (I think) a box of sugar. It is, she assures investors, painted in “a most conservative and traditional style.” Got none of your fancy multiple vanishing points, cubism (except for sugar cubism), pointillism or other communo-liberal artistic movements. Rest assured that this is art that’s safe for your political movement. Plus, its “bright lively orange tone” makes it suitable for “any wall, office, living room or elsewhere.”
Not sure what’s the weirdest part of this–conservative politics as artistic aesthetic, the name “Megrit,” or that “wall” doesn’t match “office” and “living room.” Or that the only political content apparent is her palette: she’s siding with the Protestants in Northern Ireland with a bright lively orange tone and purple accent, surely an un-American choice.
Here is the artwork, presented in “a most conservative” (and anti-IRA) style:
