Artist Jon McNaughton has painted portraits of President Donald Trump as a football player and motorcycle rider, but his latest, 'The Masterpiece,' presents the president as his own artist.
A new McNaughton painting is often a cause for celebration on social media. Commonly depicting Trump with a beatific smile, engaged in prayer, or sometimes as a great athlete, McNaughton's paintings can look like missives from an alternate dimension to people familiar with the president'sand love of fast food and gossip.
Donald and Melania Trump look at a portrait of late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in July. Trump has been the subject of numerous portraits of his own, including"The Masterpiece," by Jon McNaughton."The Masterpiece" is especially well-suited for meme modification, because the subject of the painting—itself a painting—can be easily changed to something other than the vague medley of blues and greens McNaughton provided.
It could, for example, be replaced by fan art depicting a bizarre tryst between Garfield and Jon Arbuckle. Or perhaps it's Trump's unreleased tax returns hiding under the red velvet drop cloth:
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