{"id":1117260,"date":"2021-12-14T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117260"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:28:55","slug":"hunter-biden-embraces-art-for-arts-sake-no-interest-in-making-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-embraces-art-for-arts-sake-no-interest-in-making-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Embraces &#039;Art for Art&#039;s Sake: No Interest in Making Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-embraces-art-for-arts-sake-no-interest-in-making-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Hunter Biden has revealed the humble ethos that drives his newfound love of painting. He told&nbsp;<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>&nbsp;a recent Manhattan gallery show left him thrilled because \u201cI wasn\u2019t there to sell my art\u201d and people going \u201cwow\u201d is its own reward.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s son opened up about his self-effacing objective in the magazine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/12\/hunter-biden-is-painting-his-truth\">interview<\/a>, explaining the creative process satisfies him rather than tawdry suggestions he is only in it to trade off the family name.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hunter claims about 95 per cent of the people at his recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/25\/report-hunter-biden-secretly-holds-second-art-show-in-soho\/\">opening<\/a> in New York City were people he knew rather than art speculators. They included such celebrities as Moby, graphic artist Shepard Fairey \u2013 who designed the Obama \u2018Hope\u2019 poster \u2013 and Sugar Ray Leonard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t there to sell my art. I wasn\u2019t there to talk about my art. I wasn\u2019t there to explain myself, or explain what my art represented. All I had to do was watch people go, \u2018Wow,&#8217;\u201d the 51-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I knew that that\u2019s what they would do, not because I was overly confident about it. I\u2019m sure some people didn\u2019t like some paintings, or some people thought that that was too abstract, or some people thought that that was too figurative. But I didn\u2019t care. I truly didn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He called putting paint on canvas \u201cthe most true thing that I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d after previously saluting himself for his \u201ccourageous\u201d work and business model.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.0110497237569\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hunter Biden proclaimed Thursday it is &#8220;courageous&#8221; to sell &#8220;art&#8221; to &#8220;anonymous&#8221; investors for $500,000.00. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/spF9lcjsY9\">https:\/\/t.co\/spF9lcjsY9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1421492615367757836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though Hunter is eschewing the pursuit of dollars for paintings, others are interested in why he is doing it at all.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported,&nbsp;Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), a candidate for Alabama\u2019s U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in 2022, has called for a full select committee investigation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/07\/mo-brooks-calls-for-full-select-committee-investigation-into-hunter-biden\/\">into Hunter Biden\u2019s art dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama Republican suggested the investigation take place once Republicans took control of the House of Representatives after the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19124474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236029228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19124474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236029228-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Paintings by Hunter Biden are seen as Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) questions Attorney General Merrick Garland about price fixing during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhile Socialist Democrats claim you can identify as just about anything you want, everyone can agree that Hunter Biden can\u2019t identify as an artist,\u201d Brooks said in a statement given to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this, his paintings sell for tens of thousands of dollars. The White House released a report that the art market is ripe for financial corruption. Yet somehow, they claim Hunter is immune from this. It\u2019s quite apparent that people are not paying these outrageous prices for the \u2018art.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.7222222222222\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House Under Fire After Hunter Biden Art Show Ethics Debacle <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wviqLfFJOr\">pic.twitter.com\/wviqLfFJOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1446192387680841734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others are just as worried about the principles involved in those who sell art to anonymous buyers \u2013 including the White House, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/white-house-flags-art-industry-for-money-laundering-while-permitting-hunter-to-sell-art-to-anonymous-buyers\/\">flagged<\/a> the practice for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter has reportedly&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=partner-pub-9229289037503472:6795176714&amp;q=https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/07\/report-hunter-biden-sells-five-art-75000-each-los-angeles-show\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjrzsLw-M_0AhWQhXIEHQYDDCgQFnoECAEQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw1LbN4AScGIZGGXeWDoPpL-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">sold<\/a>&nbsp;multiple pieces of art for at least $75,000 this fall to anonymous buyers, and the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;reported first lady Jill Biden has allegedly&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=partner-pub-9229289037503472:6795176714&amp;q=https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/13\/jill-biden-displays-hunter-bidens-art-taxpayer-funded-white-house-office\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjZ4Iq89s_0AhW8l3IEHcbOCds4CBAWegQIBRAB&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ODzGyk-8-ezW4Q2inXEwQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">displayed<\/a>&nbsp;Hunter\u2019s artwork in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>There are critics enough who simply pan the works as amateur and contrived daubings of an enthusiast who can somehow hold exhibitions where paintings are sold for up to $500,000.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/jknudsen\/\">Jack Knudsen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s art dealer, Georges Berg\u00e8s, begs to differ. He announced to the <em>New York Times<\/em> in October that Hunter\u2019s artwork is a testament to the \u201cAmerican story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Berg\u00e8s has reportedly managed to sell multiple paintings by his untrained client for a total of $375,000.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden has revealed the humble ethos that drives his newfound love of painting. 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