“You, as a human being, do not deserve to be judged by fictional ideas of your body by anyone. “I am sincerely sorry for the role I played in the criticism of your body,” a portion of the statement on Gore’s website reads.
To help ensure her disapproval of this perspective is more accurately understood with this new batch of work, Gore, 26, is offering an explanation of sorts up front, in the form of a written apology to the president. She tells Rolling Stone that the response to the Trump portrait became “disheartening,” because the furor over it proved to her that our cultural bias against modestly sized male genitalia - that small penises somehow determine a man’s value - is holding firm. Nonplussed, shortly after posting the first new portrait, that of a nude Kim Jong Un, Gore said in a text to Rolling Stone, “Let’s see if I get banned before I can put more up.”īut this time, Gore’s mission is to get a message about masculinity across more clearly. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs In the aftermath, Gore also said she was anonymously threatened with legal actions, held captive in an Uber, received death threats and was punched in the face by a Trump supporter.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time
After posting the Trump piece on Facebook, she was banned from the site and publicly accused by some of body shaming the eventual president, including actress Amber Tamblyn. Small-genitalia portraiture is a familiar dive into controversial waters for Gore - she is, after all, best known for her portrait of a naked Donald Trump sporting a tiny penis, which went viral in February 2016.
There’s just one catch - they’re all being painted nude, with extremely tiny penises. The roster includes Harvey Weinstein, Brett Kavanaugh, Richard Spencer and Osama Bin Laden, along with Darth Vader, Superman, Albert Einstein, Pope Benedict XVI and Jesus Christ. On Wednesday, the painter Illma Gore unveiled the first of what will be 26 depictions of political and cultural figures, both contemporary and historic, ranging from international terrorists to saints to superheroes.