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I guess the Obamas were going for something lighter and brighter than the usual presidential portrait, so they didn't go with a more traditional painter.

The problem is that younger artists are all theory and provocation.

Years ago Tom Wolfe wrote a book attacking modern art for being too theoretical, The Painted Word.

That was something of a cheap shot against the painters of his day, who at least had theories about art.

Today, the theories are about race, gender, and sexual preference and the painters don't just paint pictures anymore.

Politicians can reject their official portraits. LBJ did. Churchill had his burned.

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That was something of a cheap shot against the painters of his day,
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WRONG.

Tom Wolfe was writing about the critics who controlled the art world.

You have never read his book.