Former Iraq administrator Bremer now a painter
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/03/05/art.bremerart.gi.jpg caption="A sample of Bremer’s art, which favors farm and country scenes."]WASHINGTON (CNN) - L. Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, has a new trade: painting.
Bremer has launched Web site promoting his work, mostly oil paintings on canvas or panels, depicting wintery landscapes in Vermont, where he has “an old farm house.” He’s also holding an exhibition - his second - in the Vermont town of Grafton this summer.
He said he refined his skills at a school in Glen Echo, Maryland. “I started painting about two years ago,” he said. “It’s something that always interested me.”
Bremer currently does consulting work and serves on a number of boards in the Washington area. He said he’s donating the proceeds from his sales to the Chester and Grafton Historical Societies in Vermont.
John Wayne Gacy painted too...
...hopefully, they'll meet similar ends...
Well I'll be able to sleep securely tonight in the thought of this information.
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He should be painting in a prison cell somewhere.
He's about as good a painter as he was as interim head of Iraq...Not!
Ahhh...where is that van I just saw out front; you know the one containg several bags? Bags? yes, bags filled with $100.00 bills!
Not exactly Donna Dewbury
What ? No Iraqi Farm and Country scenes?
Perhaps they would not be as pastoral, with all that smoke rising in the background . . .
@keith in california
You probably can't say anything nice can you? You must be a liberal.
He is doing now what he should have been doing in Iraq....painting landscapes not diplomacy.
I'd like to see him paint a still-life of the nearly 9 billion dollars that went missing in Iraq on his watch.
Wow, looks like someone finally found something he could do. Congrats.
He should be in IRAQ in the on guard duty in the brig!
Liberals would never consider this painting "art". To be considered art there has to be overtly homosexual inferences or a sculpture of Jesus made out of poop. Farm & country scenes have no artistic merit anymore. I'm sure liberals view American Gothic as a painting of 2 racist homophobes with a pitchfork. A liberal is probably looking at Bremer's painting now trying to decide which barn is potentially the Slave Quarters, so they can act outraged.
We can now scratch two trades from his possibilites!
Well, administration wasn't his calling.. and neither, it appears, is art. That looks like a paint-by-numbers my 8-year-old did. Keep searching, L. Paul.
Hmmmm – paint by number?
How twisted! I wonder if this is how Van Gogh got started.
And when my numbers up. I will live, live live until I die. Micky Jackson...
GGGGGGGGGeeeeeeesh!
B_____D!
Yes GAcy ,while I who have invested 50 years in my painting craft...don't even get enough SS income to eat for 30 days a month.
That's because the money Bremer "lost" in Iraq came out of our SS fund!
Bunch of cybersnots...I think it's great he's pursuing his muse...and donating the proceeds to local charities. Do you?
who cares? is this really news... this guy needs to be forgotten...
Pretty good painting... don't know much about the man... and don't want to! Seriously... I have better things to do with my time.. 🙂
I wanna comment on Sanjay Gupta above.
It is good he nevered tyhe admin
I saw his name and immediately thought – oh that's harmless, he's painting houses now. Oops.