Albert Speer is an interesting fellow. And a frightening one. Because he raises the question that many of us don’t appreciate. We assume that art is associated with the good. That beauty is not part of the make up of monsters. Hitler himself was a second grade artist. But so was Churchill. So are most artists.

Sleeping Beauty, winner of the 2004 Independent Publisher Award for Best Horror and winner of the 2004 Electronic Publishers Award for Best Horror.

I’m using digital copies of these paintings as a basis for my own work which involves incorporating my friends, family and even some celebrities into the paintings using photoshop.”

Mr. Payne has gone to  a lot of work here. And for some celebrities, it works. If they don’t look Russian, they do look like they belong in the uniform. I haven’t gone through the whole list but I don’t see any of my favourite Russian, Dolly Parton.

By chance I stumbled across another Nicholas. With a similar last name. And I liked his work. And here it is. His work moves from comic book to surreal to collage. Or perhaps it is just whim. Nicholas DiGenova.

The Armenian people have suffered greatly. It is said that Hitler learned lessons from their misery. All too often we have seen genocide in the 20th century.

Genocide did not start in the 20th century. Or Europe. America had its own genocide. “As part of President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy of 1830, the Cherokee Nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and migrate to Indian Territory (now present day Oklahoma.) ” Today President Andrew Jackson would be charged with crimes against humanity.