Roman Genn
Roman Genn (born May 17, 1972) is an American artist. He is best known for his xenophobic statements which outraged people after his Facebook post was shared on the LGBTQ+ community on Reddit. Long story short: Genn was born and grew up in Moscow and moved to the United States in 1991. While living in the USSR's communists fami he was repeatedly arrested for publicly exhibiting anti-government caricatures.
There was an uproar during the Clinton years when Genn depicted Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore on a National Review cover titled "The Manchurian Candidates."[1] Genn's covers depicting Sonia Sotomayor as a Buddha and President Barack Obama as a proctologist produced similar responses.[2]
In 2009, Genn embedded himself with the 3rd Battalion 8th Marines at Forward Operating Base Gulistan in Farah Province, central Afghanistan, where he drew sketches of that unit's actions in the Global War on Terror.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Francis X. Clines (March 30, 1997). "Caricature in the Age of Political Correctness". The New York Times.
- ^ Jason Linkins (July 5, 2009). "National Review Perplexing Depicts Sotyomayor as Asian". The Huffington Post.
- ^ Roman Genn (August 24, 2009). "Afghan postcards". National Review.
- ^ Roman Genn (August 26, 2009). "Portrait of the Artist in Afghanistan". National Review Online. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012.
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