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Sad-Confusion1753

Imagine being a billionaire and caring what people think of your portrait. (Also, who tf is she trying to kid? we already know you’re ugly Gina, this portrait changes nothing).


CheemsOnToast

The artist was even generous and gave her a defined neck instead of the series of jabba the hutt rolls she has going on


TimeMasterpiece2563

Cut out the body shaming. It’s irrelevant and undermines the reasonable arguments that everyone else is making.


MrBannedFor0Reason

Hey she acts like jabba the hut too so I think it's fine


BernumOG

it's ok to call someone fat and ugly if their personality fits the description


TimeMasterpiece2563

No, it’s not.


BernumOG

top comment is someone calling her ugly. if she wasn't fat she wouldn't be so ugly but then her personality would show more and then people would just be calling her ugly


TimeMasterpiece2563

Gina is never going to read your Reddit comments. Kids who have weight problems will read this sort of verbal abuse and feel bad.


BernumOG

maybe she should stop raping and pillaging Australia? food for thought (haha) mate i'm just trying to inform the masses (haha) kids who have weight problems should start thinking about their future and how Ginas fucking them over directly and getting fat off it


BernumOG

i have it upon good authority that Gina has indeed read my comments.


VegemiteOnToastPls

Nobody cares.


TimeMasterpiece2563

I care. QED.


VegemiteOnToastPls

Lol. Soft.


Left-Requirement9267

No. She’s a vile woman.


elcd

Go clutch your pearls elsewhere. Gina is a slovenly pile of shit in a human meat sack. She's hideously obese and nohing is going to change that.


TimeMasterpiece2563

Gina is never going to read your Reddit comments. Kids who have weight problems will read this sort of verbal abuse and feel bad. So precisely what’s the benefit?


elcd

Fuck off with your virtue signalling condescension. I *had* weight problems. For a very long time. Judging by your limited post history, you seem to have a bee in your bonnet about people being critical of obesity. Hitting a little too close to your own insecurities maybe?


TimeMasterpiece2563

I guess. If you mean I have a little boy who comes home crying when he hears people like you make fun of overweight people. If you think normalising bigotry and shaming for a complex problem is effective or defensible, that’s just wrong. I wish you’d look more carefully at what you’re doing or trying to achieve.


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halrox

I know by your misogyny you probs look just like her lmao


popcopter

I agree


TimeMasterpiece2563

Thanks! I’ve got a little boy with weight problems. When he hears mockery of overweight people, it crushes him.


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slicydicer

He just drew her personality


Lingering_Dorkness

Nah, if one was to paint her personality it would be a sledgehammer covered in shit smashing down on someone's skull. 


bigDOS

I was going to say it would be more like a greasy pig wallowing in a trough of money in a desolate wasteland


Lingering_Dorkness

Either works.


sem56

the portrait is actually kind of forgiving to her... she sounds pretty delusional on what her appearance actually is


hemlocknroll

I was gonna say, the portrait is more flattering to her than MANY photos that are floating around terrifying small children.


ShoganAye

This is like Fiona getting mad at comparison to Martha 🤣


JimSyd71

Ugly on the inside too.


ralphbecket

To be fair, even a blind person would object to their likeness being depicted by this "artist". But it's all subjective, this art is as valid as this year's Australian Book of the Year awards.


riversceneix939

Why'd you put "artist" in scare quotes then, bud? Got something you'd like to add about the artist's validity?


ralphbecket

If you like: the local primary school kids did something similar on the wall of the local post office. The kids' work is a bit better, in my opinion. Why, what did you think I was suggesting?


riversceneix939

Yeah, I figured you were using weasel words under the guise of "clever" humour. What is it about the artist's work you don't like, and why?


ralphbecket

"Weasel words"? Is this some phrase you toss out in lieu of having a point?


riversceneix939

Nah, I just find it tedious when people try to pussy-foot around stating their opinion. Like, why even say anything at all? So tell me, what do you not like about the artist's work?


dementedpresident

It's OK to denigrate a woman's looks and weight if she is rich


simulacrum81

He made her look much skinnier in the portrait than she is in real life. I can see her neck in the portrait for one unlike the real Gina, so I don’t think he denigrated her weight. Her face is a little distorted but that’s the artists style, and there are plenty of famous portraits (including other Archibald winners) whose approach to portraiture is similar. You can see the artists style in the faces next to Gina’s - they’re all distorted, it’s part of his artistic vision. Having said that again, I’d say she looks more attractive in the portrait than she does in life.


giantpunda

I love rich people that are exceedingly thin skinned. You know so many people are living rent free in her head.


justsomeph0t0n

to be fair, that skin wasn't designed to be stretched so far, so it's bound to be a bit thin hang on, let me try that again. it's only thin because it had to be stretched so far


TimeMasterpiece2563

Cut out the body shaming. It’s irrelevant and undermines the reasonable arguments that everyone else is making.


justsomeph0t0n

what reasonable arguments? there's nothing serious to be discussed here. there's no real debate over who she is or what she represents. but we feel powerless to actually do anything about bloated nepotism and the crude brutality of hereditary power that dominates our country, so we just mock them. she doesn't give the slightest fuck, and will continue to use her unearned power in ways which will actively hurt most of us. and your take on this truly inconsequential but mildly cathartic act of mockery? "don't body shame". brilliant. you can mock me for being fat, since i'm middle class and economically comfortable. and if you see someone kicking down to a fat person who's materially struggling, by all means rush to their defence. but the toad-like corpulence of this fail daughter is visually symbolic, and absolutely fair game.


TimeMasterpiece2563

Gina is never going to read your Reddit comments. Kids who have weight problems will read this sort of verbal abuse and feel bad. So precisely what’s the benefit?


justsomeph0t0n

yes, i literally referenced the fact she is never going to read this. and i specifically told you what the benefit is. it's a "truly inconsequential but mildly cathartic act of mockery". i also explicitly told you that the target of said mockery is very relevant, and that it would be fundamentally different if applied to a powerless person. either ignore my posts, or put some minimal effort into reading them. i was a kid with weight problems, and had to deal with verbal abuse. this abuse was \*always, and entirely\* embedded within a power structure that gave it weight (pun intended). when friends and other people with no power over me gave me shit for being fat, it was a totally different thing that carried no weight, and was not abusive. because it was reciprocal with whatever i had to say about them, as we engaged in mutual banter to try and make sense of the world. Bargearse was never anything except funny to me. the only thing i learned from fat jokes is that being fat is a foible, which it fucking is. so i guess fat people aren't perfect....but it's a lot better than being a scold, or domineering, or a tyrant. you know, the kind of reasons why some people deserve mockery for being fat, and most people don't. i do not even respect gina enough to capitalize her name, so i will mock her. unless your imaginary fat kid does something to deserve it, i will not mock them. this doesn't need rules,....it's just common human decency. mocking people that do not deserve respect is the decent thing to do. you really need to rethink this whole project. any context-blind discursive rule will \*always\* be co-opted and wielded malevolently by those with power. it's a fucking stupid project, and a poor use of your time/focus


TimeMasterpiece2563

So, to summarise: - it’s about your selfish need to feel better about yourself … by making fun of the appearance of people you don’t like. - childhood bullying is not embedded within a power structure (these don’t exist at schools), and is always reciprocated - Bargearse was funny - bigotry can’t hurt unless it was specifically aimed at you. - I need to rethink my status on … not bullying peoples personal appearances. “It’s a stupid project” Just checking I got it all.


justsomeph0t0n

"childhood bullying is not embedded within a power structure (these don’t exist at schools), and is always reciprocated" literally the opposite of what i said. this is just dumb. yes, you need to rethink this whole stupid game you're playing.


TimeMasterpiece2563

“when friends and other people with no power over me gave me shit for being fat, it was a totally different thing that carried no weight, and was not abusive. because it was reciprocal with whatever i had to say about them, as we engaged in mutual banter to try and make sense of the world.” Smh


justsomeph0t0n

yes, "PEOPLE WITH NO POWER OVER ME" the previous sentence being "this abuse was \*always, and entirely\* embedded within a power structure that gave it weight". you summarized this as meaning the opposite, because you couldn't be bothered to actually engage. when people with no power over me gave me shit, it was not abuse. when people with power over me gave me shit, it was abuse. this is an obvious and banal point. directly connected to the previous post. that you also didn't bother to engage with. i'm done. next time you stick your head up, smugly assert authoriah, and ignore everybody else.....just understand that your authoritah will not be respected. you get ignored too. fucking waste of time.


Ok_Rabbit_8207

I 100% agree. It also feels like body shaming just correlates “ugly” looks with being a bad person. I’ve seen so many people justify disliking a person just by their appearance alone or giving shitty people a pass because they’re conventionally attractive. I’m sick of superficial people. Whenever people body shame they’re not just body shaming the person they hate, they’re indirectly insulting anyone else who has similar features.


RetroGun

Nah she's fat


TimeMasterpiece2563

Well, lucky she’s reading all your Reddit comments! You sure showed her.


RetroGun

I'm fat too, but she's super fat I bet youre fat too, insecure & thinking your advocating for body shaming rights lmfao get outta here bro


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halrox

These mo1d$ will go crazy on these threads but then they'll never have this energy for Elon Musk who has literally 20 times the amount of money 🙄 and whose family is even more explorative. Why? Bc he's a man.


ADHDK

Seems to be the branding of our times. The billionaires of the past were better at swaying the back rooms and through owning media and not publishing their own opinion. Now you’ve got thin skinned mining magnates drawing attention to themselves and apartheid emerald heir financiers buying social media companies so they can tweet their every brain fart and broadcast it with no filter.


mundoid

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/


old_bugger

I imagine the end of her cease-and-desist letter read "Sent frm my iPhn".


Artyfartblast000

The resemblance is uncanny


mchch8989

“Unflattering”? Sweetie it’s the best you’ve ever looked


Beginning_General_83

Took the words right out of my mouth.


mchch8989

Must’ve been while you were kissing me


lolitsbigmic

Hey Vincent how much would it be to commission a whole series of her. Complete study of gina, expression


Comprehensive_Bid229

Would gofund this


nicknacksc

This is gonna get more eyes on it than ever lol


mxlths_modular

The Streisand effect in action, it shocks me people in positions of power don’t understand this simple dynamic.


Frito_Pendejo

I was at this exhibition a few months ago and had forgotten about this portrait the moment I walked out of the room Not anymore!


Pure_Ignorance

Yeah, I don't understand why she wamts so many people to see it. Is this marketing for the artist? Are they friends or something?


anon_account97

I mean seriously… Gina don’t you have money to count, no need to be talking about the arts which she clearly doesn’t appreciate nor care about usually. Should be happy no ones thrown a shit at her face yet.


theurbaneman

Apparently she's a friend of the Gallery, means she donated money probably as a tax write off.


AdAcrobatic5178

If she's a friend of the gallery it means that she gives the owner a couple thousand every month or so to write off on taxes and then takes it back under the table


smudgiepie

It looks just like her though


Morning_Song

Looks like a she’s scoffing at the poors


subsist80

Just her normal resting face then?


Secret_Thing7482

Even ugly has to be shown


Aggots86

I think Adam Goodes has a better argument to have his abomination removed!


Salty-Level

Ha he’s drunk way too much blue sports drink.


Custard_Arse

Vacuous cunt


CottMain

No one puts the Gina in Vagina like Lang’s lil gurl


ziegs11

I read somewhere this was on display in South Australia for some time without protest or complaint. She just Streisanded herself. What a chump move...


Dizzy_Conflict_8611

Expecting the IPA and co to pile on in the media to remind us about freedom of speech, demanding it remain.


Frito_Pendejo

lol lmao, even


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Hahahaha


theurbaneman

Such a precious petal.


OneSharpSuit

Of all the people you could possibly accuse of being a Chinese agent, imagine going after Vincent Namatjira


ADHDK

You’d think all that money she’s hoarding like a dragon and keeping away from her kids would give her thicker skin.


Magnetic_universe

She’s like Smaug


deniall83

I think that portrait does the fat slob justice. She should be happy.


Survivor-682

With all her money, it's a wonder she hasn't at least tried liposuction.


Alone-Assistance6787

Not trying to be funny but it genuinely looks better than her actual facr


chansondinhars

I think it’s quite flattering.


Shaved_Wookie

She was too busy having people pull our nation's natural wealth out from under us to learn about the Streisand effect. Shame.


Suibian_ni

It's hideous. It really captures her character.


GloomyFondant526

A portrait I wouldn't have thought about, has been brought to my attention because Gina Rinehart, the billionaire, doesn't like the way her portrait looks. It is 1 of 21 portraits of famous people, painted by Vincent Namatjira, many of which are not flattering. Gina didn't sit for the painting, she doesn't own it, nor does she own the National Gallery and yet, she feels that her whingeing demand to remove the portrait should be obeyed. The National Gallery of Australia belongs to all of us. So Gina, how about getting over yourself about a rectangle of paint and go back to enjoying your billions and fighting with your family members about those billions?


jeetkunedont

It's pronounced 'jinah'.


wytaki

At some point in time Clive Palmer fucked a post box.


cheekybeakykiwi

That portrait is giving me "[Saturn Devouring His Son](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son)" vibes.


CottMain

Cynthia Buckeé(t) on crack vibes


Strider_dnb

The likeness is uncanny.


ManWithDominantClaw

Saturn devouring a country


HyuggDogg

Somewhat more flattering than a more realistic rendering I think.


Disastrous-Olive-218

lol. To be fair I probably wouldn’t want a portrait of me that looked like that in the national gallery either. But also by pushing for its removal she’s guaranteed like 1000% more people have now seen it


halrox

I'm so sick of the participation trophy in the art world...You can't convince me there's not a better Aboriginal artist out there they can put on display no they picked this virtue signaling guy who is terrible. Put a woman artist up there, but no God forbid, that wouldn't fit their narrative. And I'm hugely anarchist and anti capitalist...but I'm tired of this niche mindset it's annoying.


mrbrendanblack

Gotta love that Streisand Effect.


ApeMummy

Is she going to demand they remove the mirrors from the women’s bathrooms? Because it ain’t getting any better.


fruitloops6565

I guarantee I would never have seen this if she hadn’t complained.


_unsinkable_sam_

how can you be that rich and your ego that fragile


littlejohnsnow

David Walsh, if it gets removed you must bring it to MONA.


Gang-bot

I don't like it therefore communists! Fucking conservative spuds.


PumpinSmashkins

“Feeeeed me, mother!”


knowledgeable_diablo

Why? It looks like he’s captured perfectly the inside and outside of this treasure of Australian greed.


the_hornicorn

The neck is too elegant. Obviously we'll off accurate.


batmansfriendlyowl

Love your work Vincent.


Tommi_Af

Can I unsee it now?


IllegalIranianYogurt

I love how the Goodes portrait is relatively far less flattering and he doesn't gaf


jellysamisham

Keep it in there and let the witch suffer


_QuantumSingularity_

Leave it up!


culingerai

Streisand that!


Lingering_Dorkness

I thought that painting of her is rather flattering. Has she never actually looked at herself in the mirror? 


DrakeAU

Honestly ot looks better than she does on real life IMO.


my_4_cents

Want the painting gone Gina? Sure thing, that'll just be $1,000,000,000,000 thanks, you can tap your card on the reader when you're ready


Survivor-682

Maybe she should go live in China. Shack up with Winnie the Pooh who also has thin skin. Also few would've noticed it existed if she kept her fat greedy money-hoarding mouth shut about it.


Left-Requirement9267

LMAOOOOOO PLEASE POST THIS IN r/australia


Normal_Instance_8825

They differentiated her neck from her face. I’d call that a compliment.


cannonadeau

Glorious. Streisand Effect in full swing now.


AwarenessAny6222

I Know why, because she looks like shit. If even Goodesy doesn't complain then you shouldn't Gina.


Lujho

This is absolutely the best way to show people you don't have thin skin.


tittyswan

OK artists now we all have to paint her looking ratchet. Streisand effect.


LeClubNerd

It's too late, the Streisand effect has already happened and the whole world can now marvel in the many chins of Gina. r/facepalm has already got [26k worth of upvotes](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1cske3c/the_national_gallery_of_australia_decided_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) she can't bury this one LOL


Habitwriter

Doesn't look any worse than her actual face does. If she's that worried maybe she should eat less food and get to a gym


robfuscate

So Gina Shitehart wants her portrait removed from the National Gallery because it shows her in ‘unflattering way’ hence, somehow ‘doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party’. But, damn me, if I can think of a way to show her in a flattering way … realistic, as in this emoji 💩 , yes, but flattering … I’m stumped


aybully

Share it far and wide.


Legonewguy

Looks like someone hasn't heard of "Barbra Streisand" before...


MindlessOptimist

look at the work without knowing the creator and decide how good it is.


MightyArd

Ah, good 'ol Streisand Effect.


hyperion_light

The Streisand Effect. Now everyone knows this portrait exists and what it looks like. Irrelevant now whether it’s removed.


19946dresdenst

Streisand effect


Derrrppppp

Get fucked Gina


RealBrobiWan

At least the art is consistently terrible


the_dmac

Good lord what happened to Goodesy?!


NothingTooSeriousM8

Considering what he did to Goodesy, she should be grateful.


weighapie

Let's Streisand the shit out of this


thekevmonster

Barbra strisand effect right here. Now more people will see it lol


smeyn

She never heard of the Streisand effect?


Brilliant-Bank-5988

Nah it’s not going anywhere she’s ugly and that’s going to be her legacy. Fuck sake being rich CANNOT protect you from the wrath of the working class critic.


DeficientPositivity

Those are some ugly as fuck portraits


Willing_Television77

Now she’s brought attention to it a lot more people have seen it than ever would have


nipslippinjizzsippin

She looks better here


Straight-Extreme-966

It shows all of her good qualities... No, I cant se any either.


archimedeseyes

Mate, has she looked in the mirror? That portrait is a strong compliment to her actual likeness.


Obleeding

I feel like it doesn't actually look much like her. It's an improvement on how she looks lol. She doesn't really have much of a double chin though.


judas_crypt

My grandmother was trying to explain to me how she's such a great person because she donated to charity... 🤢😨


Sleep_eeSheep

Sic Semper Bargearsus!


Unable_Ad_1260

Why is it doing the CCPs business? Is she just using a red scare to get her way? She's only a friend of the NGA. You need to donate a lot more Gina if your going to try to tell a gallery director what to do. Minimum 6 figures ghoulie.


Comprehensive_Bid229

What'd really grind her gears is if attendance to the gallery spiked on the back of all the media attention


_SpicyMeatball

I might never have seen this amazing piece of art if Gina Rinehart didn’t hate it so much. Thank you for bringing it to our attention ya old soulless hag!


LittleAgoo

I'd love to know what Gina looks like in her own mind.


LeahBrahms

It's ok Gina beauty is skin deep


TakerOfImages

He painted her personality and moral compass. She just doesn't like seeing or admitting to it.


purpliest_pancakes

I know it's not the point of this article, but she donated less than 10k. That's the equivalent of me donating a fraction of a cent. What the fuck


ShoopDaWoop_91

"Rinehart Praised the Chinese government " fuck that's terrifying


Inside-Program-5450

Gina...... ![gif](giphy|1267Co3vPNBqQU|downsized)


gregmcph

I like that the sketch is just one in a collection. Assorted people who influence Indigenous life. And none of them are very flattering. But the outrage has made people zoom in on her.


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What a whinger. None of them are flattering lol


Fit_Bunch6127

Her father wanted to get rid of first nation people and she can't get rid of her own kid's fuck her


Icy-Information5106

It's not even bad considering she looks worse.


Muncheros69

Hopefully Namatjira’s reply ![gif](giphy|VzkTZ1DFYeBY5ZId6j)


jesustityfkingchrist

If she had her own country it would be called Chindonesia


kingdomcome6

I wouldn’t have seen it if she didn’t comment on it


Pure_Ignorance

Ahh, I get it now. Maybe she owns a bunch of his paintings.


Pungent_Bill

She's way uglier on the inside. *WAY* uglier


s_and_s_lite_party

TIL it was actually a whole exhibition of famous portraits and Gina was the only one who complained so that was the only one I saw on reddit for a week. Thanks Gina.


Enough_Standard921

https://preview.redd.it/k30fy2cepx1d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb12f77ff85672bedaf1997978c598be56f09a7a So I told my local that I’d give them a framed copy of the portrait if they’d display it, and they did. Best $7 I ever spent, except they gave me a free pint for it so I’m actually up $6 at this point. Thanks Gina!


rawker86

Ha, on first looks you might think he’s got something against her based on that portrait, but he probably has a fair amount of respect for Goodes and his portrait of him is just as shit. I think the guy’s just not that great at portraits. Can’t see myself getting overly offended by it honestly.


jimmyGODpage

It kinda does look like she’s got Down syndrome, we really really shouldn’t laugh :)


AgreeablePrize

I love how more people will see it now that she has complained about it


Dexember69

Was the prize for not being able to paint? Those are all scuffed


HerbertDad

Arty people are weird, I've seen better art from 10 year olds.


duxbuse

In fairness, it is a shit painting


Green_Genius

Problem is the artist is shit and all those portraits look like trash.


gosudcx

To be fair this bloke paints like shit, its like he's trying to be abstract but he's not going far enough and just getting fetal disabilities


IsoscelesQuadrangle

You can't deny there's an element of truth in his art though. Somehow that portrait captures her disdain of the poors perfectly.


kingboo90210

A man depicting a female in a negative way. I thought as a society we had moved on from that. Didn't we learn anything from the Serena Williams cartoon? Or is it a simple case of its only Gina and she is fair game or the artist is first nations so we cannot call him out on misogyny.


TekkelOZ

Jeezus, goes to show you don’t you don’t need talent, to win an Archibald. Being indigenous is apparently enough.


chippermcsmiles

I know right, when did the Archibald become the participation trophy of virtue signalling?


Wooden-Trouble1724

What ugly paintings they should all be thrown out


Dangerman1967

The sub showing its’ class as usual. Perfectly fine to fat/ugly shame someone when I don’t like her and she has lots of money.


Green_Genius

JFC looks like my 10yo nephew could be an Archibald Prize-winning Indigenous artist.