![]() ![]() “In order to dismantle prejudice and stereotypes we must confront our biases head on,” she says as justification. Still, Gore is releasing more portraits of men with tiny members in tandem with the apology to Trump. “The idea that the perception of your body would shape the way you interact with the world is really fucked up,” she tells Rolling Stone. In reflecting upon the original Trump portrait, Gore regrets ignoring her personal ideology about the human form when she knew some people would ridicule him. In other words: Judge men not by their bulges, but by the content of their character. “That’s exactly the bias that we hold,” Gore tells Rolling Stone. When she then asked her friend why she’d responded to it that way, the friend replied: “Because it’s funny he has a small dick.” When Gore showed a sketch of the work to her female friend, “of course she immediately laughed,” Gore recalls. Gore painted the body of a male friend of hers, but put the sneering Trump mug in place of her model’s face because, Gore says, whether “you love him or you dislike him … Trump is someone who elicits a reaction.” With that piece, Gore had set out to show a female friend of hers that she held a bias against small penises - something her friend didn’t believe to be true. “A lot of the stuff this administration has done is simply disgusting,” she tells Rolling Stone, but the original micro-penis portrait of the president was an experiment that had little to do with her personal feelings toward the then-GOP presidential candidate. Gore, a gay, female Australian-American artist living in Los Angeles, is not being sarcastic, though there’s certainly an underlying irony. Paintings by Illma Gore Paintings by Ilma Gore … Your body, whatever it looks like and is capable of, does not define the job you do or your ability to do that job well.” “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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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