"Every portrait that is painted wit...

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter," said a character in Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. And that is the sole way to interpret sculptor Daniel Edwards' resin rendition of Hillary Rodham Clinton, lately unveiled at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan. It says a chance about Edwards' feelings and excessively little about Clinton, the Democratic senator from recently made known York.

The cut depicts Clinton as a wizened Pamela Anderson, jowl nevertheless big bosomed in a revealing dres "Her cleavage is forward display, prominently portraying sexual power, which any people still consider too threatening," Edwards explained of his likeness.

nevertheless the portrayal is not about sexual power -- it is about Edwards' ability to garner media attention. He is the same artist who did a resin cut of pop singer Britney Spears crouching onward a bearskin rug giving birth. Tacky, tacky, tacky. It generated a chance of buzz, as did this bust of Clinton.

Moreover, the Clinton rendition is an insult, rather than an homage to an influential woman. Hillary Clinton is a serious politician who uses her intelligence, not her putative "sexual power," to validity her work in Congress. common wonders how Edwards would portray her husband Bill, the former president known for his sexual proclivities? We'll leave it to your imagination to answer that question.

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