This article contains adult content. Comedian Eric Andre isn't the least bit shy when it comes to exposing himself, and Australian graffiti artist Lushsux seems to abide by the principal of "the more publically outraging, the better," so it comes as no surprise that the two have joined forces to create an enormous frontal nude selfie mural of Andre in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne.
Lushsux, who was recently showered with media attention for erecting a mural of Hillary Clinton in a skimpy bathing suit and then proceeding to paint her in a burqa in response to the furor over the original piece, used his army of 138,000 Instagram followers to attract the attention of Eric Andre through a post on August 6th that reads "Let's politely ask @ericfuckingandre to slide into my DM's with a nude so I can paint a huge mural of it…"
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According to Acclaim, soliciting celebrity nudes is par the course for Lushsux. That same day, Andre did in fact slide into Lushsux's DMs, giving him full-throttle permission to go through with the piece, while also giving the OK to make his junk bigger and badder—although the artist assures The Creators Project that he "kept it true to life," but added that, "I'm sure he beat it up prior to the selfie."To honor Eric Andre's nude Instagram antics and his tendency to bare it all in his Adult Swim talk show, Lushsux painted the mural in the nude himself: "This was a special one, had to get a bit loose for it," he remarks. A 50-second clip of the graffiti artist donning a face mask but otherwise butt-naked, painting the mural, is somewhat ironically viewable on Pornhub, perhaps the only content outlet that won't censor some wholesome nudity.
Photo courtesy Lushsux
In an unfortunate but unsurprising turn of events, however, the Eric Andre mural was painted over a few days later, with Lushsux suggesting on his Instagram that the same person from Melbourne Council who demanded the removal of the Hillary Clinton mural was responsible for Andre's disappearance. Regarding the removal, the graffiti artist argues that "the authoritarian Left here say one thing and do another," a hypocrisy all too prevalent within seemingly progressive political groups.More of Lushsux's bold reactions to pop culture can be found here, and also on Instagram.
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