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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Something tells me the artist is disturbed in more than one way...
Didn’t Thomas Kincaid (Painter of Light) do something similar? Have mass-produced paintings that he’d dab a few finishing touches on?
Sheperd Fairey must be eating his heart out:
“Obama! I MADE you!!!”
All I can say about the dude’s work and his own appearance is that if he has ever painted your portrait (in general, not you UCANSEE2) then “U R probably gay!”
I’d never have thought that someone based in China would do us such a favor and make an absolute laughing stock of the former Poser-in-Chief. Some of the modifications of the portrait floating around on the Web approach masterpiece status.
Obama’s portrait is a rip off of two or more self portraits by Frieda Kahlo. Self Portrait with Cropped Hair: Self Portrait with Monkey: Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace
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