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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sure no artist will ever paint her in an unflatering way after hearing this. Did NGA leak this or did she make a public statement?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The Picture of Gina Gray.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Best of luck. Get back under your bridge! Shoo!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Stay humble, bitch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Surely there's a billboard near her home that they can put that on?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


That certainly seems to be the case with a painting by indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira, which includes a portrait of Australia’s richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.

Other subjects in the piece include the late Queen Elizabeth II, American musician Jimi Hendrix, Australian Aboriginal rights activist Vincent Lingiari and the former Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison.

Australian media has reported that Rinehart approached the NGA’s director and chair to request the painting’s removal.

Australia’s National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) has spoken out to support Namatjira, CNN’s affiliate 9News has reported.

“While Rinehart has the right to express her opinions about the work, she does not have the authority to pressure the gallery into withdrawing the painting simply because she dislikes it,” NAVA’s executive director Penelope Benton said, according to 9News.

NAVA offered its “unwavering support” to National Gallery of Australia, 9News reported, stating that it was concerned that Rinehart’s demand to remove the portrait “sets a dangerous precedent for censorship and the stifling of creative expression.”


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That is some funny shit right there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even if you want to be mad at her for being rich and being part of the oligopoly that is creating suffering and impending environmental doom, can you blame her for requesting the portrait be taken down? It's really unflattering and doesn't look that much like her. She didn't demand it, she asked. No one likes being humiliated, and that portrait probably made her feel terrible. There's nothing wrong with making a request, most people in her position would do the same.

She should create a foundation to called "The Institute for Reduced World Suffering" and make the charter bylaws include her picture on anything sent out, any website, any marketing material, and her photo must be on any material generated by the organization, and it can only be 1 type of picture that she chooses, then she should have an artist do a really flattering picture of her that makes her look nice. In the Institute's first year, she should offer 10 10,000 grants to those who study reduced world suffering and in announcing the grants opportunity she could include her picture in the advertisements. She could let anyone apply and she chooses the winners. She could turn a strange situation into something wonderful if she wants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I don't mean to be rude, but fucking what

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

if only i had written "stay humble, bitch" the people of lemmy would like me 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

no sense of humour, so sad.

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