Posted on 02/14/2018 5:30:19 PM PST by conservative98
Was the presidential portrait of Barack Obama made in China?
Sources say artist Kehinde Wiley — who painted the former president before a background of greenery and flowers — has studios in China and produces most of his work there.
“It’s his base of operation,” said art critic Charlie Finch, who has known Wiley and appreciated his talent since they were students at Yale. “He has dozens of assistants working for him.”
While Obama sat for Wiley for several hours, the portrait may have been sent to China to be completed.
“Normally, Wiley sketches out the important parts, and assistants fill out the rest,” Finch told me.
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So the artiste is fake, and the painting is hencho en chine- just like husseyn. Who would have ever thought it?
These portraits look like they a were painted by an underpaid armature and I suspect purposefully considering the praises the Obozo was giving the artist. They imply quit clearly what the Obamas have staged as another one of their snubs to this country.
“Fitting....for a Manchurian candidate.”
Sort of like, “Whitey, you know what I am and I know what I am, and this proves it. So, UP YOURS, HONKEY!!”
The “portraits” are a giant: “UP YOURS AND YOUR ROTTEN CONSTITUTION, HONKEY AMERICA!!”
My guess was that the actual painter in Beijing said, "This doofus is getting paid bazillions while I'm making $2/hr to do the actual work?. Wonder how long it will take them to figure this out? And when they do, **** it, I can always get a $2/hr job with Apple."
“The “portraits” are a giant: “UP YOURS AND YOUR ROTTEN CONSTITUTION, HONKEY AMERICA!!””
Yup. A big middle finger to what’s left of America after his disastrous treason regime.
This Obama portrait thing keeps getting creepier and creepier. Really weird.
“In China the BLACK men have 6 fingers!! ANd SPERM on their foreheads!”
lolol. Obola knew this ‘artist’ was obsessed with sperm. He knew what this ‘artist’ did with his portrait and he approved its release anyways!!
Prolly with lead paint.
When Obama first saw the painting...”There’s a giant spermatozoa on the side of my forehead...cool”
Actually, almost all of his paintings have this same GAUDY WALLPAPER BACKGROUND. Despite all the claims by the artist about the meaning of the leaves and flowers in Obama's painting, It is just the artist's 'thing'. Even his clothes are like the painting backgrounds.
even artist are outsourcing these days, huh?
“Wiley sketches...”
Yeah, sure he does, just enough for the client to think they are getting their money’s worth. But then those sketches go in a drawer somewhere and whoever does the painting uses a projector and a photo or two.
Old masters used apprentices too, so this is not a new thing. But old masters worked with their apprentices, this guy just sends in an order and has probably never met any of the people who do the work or swapped paintbrushes with them or shared the same palette... just sent in the order.
The leaves are repetitive, like wallpaper, not a sketch, and not artistic. You can see the same leaf with the same arrangement of 5 leaflets over and over, the lighting on them does not change to fit the position the leaves are in though they vary slightly as if tole painted...it may as well have been stenciled. The lighting for the leafy background is not from the same source as the lighting on the figure, so there’s nothing to connect the background from foreground stylistically, which pretty much screams that there was more than one artist even if he didn’t admit it. The only connection between foreground and background are a few leaves added to overlap the figure so the figure looks a little less like it was just slapped on top, which it was. There’s no hint of light reflected from what is lit up onto nearby surfaces- that would have eliminated the pasted on look.
Maybe once he has it drawn out he sends it to China and they fill it in like paint-by-numbers. Or he just sends a digital file which would be the most economical.
He could probably buy painted panels from China and then superimpose the figure on top, but most likely he just has them do it all.
Good post.
love that one
Still only see four fingers on each hand.
Nah. It’s one of those sperm wails from the left.
The dnc will ask for more NEA and EPA funding.
I remember seeing something about the art factories on 60 Minutes (or a similar program). Anyway I figure with a population of over 1 billion, there are a whole bunch of talented painters. They showed them painting copies of Van Gough’s Sunflowers-pretty good copies that sold for less than $100.
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