The work of the West's most improbable artists, George W Bush, has already been derided as "very simple-minded" and now it turns out they're pretty unoriginal too.
Solo art show “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy” appears to have taken a very quick search on Google images as inspiration.
Art critic and filmmaker Greg Allen has compared each painting to the "first-to-surface, easiest-to-find photos of his subjects" and it's hard to argue...
Hmm...
To be fair, the art of tracing is "completely legitimate method" according to art critics it's just you would think a little more effort would go into sourcing images for exhibition level.
Bush claims he took his inspiration from Winston Churchill who dabbled with a brush in later life.
But as one art critic put it: "I think a lot of us wish he had become a painter as opposed to a president. We all could have been saved a lot of trouble..."