Posted on 02/12/2018 9:56:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
The National Portrait Gallery on Monday unveiled portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to a very mixed reception.
Even though Barack Obama praised Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman I love, many critics on social media slammed the rendition of the former first lady.
Their main question: Is that really her? [ ]
For the portrait, the former first lady was painted in grayscale a charcoal color with taupe undertones. Shes seated, with her hair falling around her shoulders, in a bold floor-length dress.
While most agreed the image was striking, Twitter went to war over whether it looked anything like Michelle Obama. The verdict varied widely, from positive responses to confused reactions to concern that the portrait did not live up to the subject.
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Yes. He could be sitting anywhere, not as President. Flowery. A Presidency embellished.
Michelles is a study in black vs white. Racism veiled by a lack of facial depth.
Remember the rags she first wore...
Look at the crap she put on the walls in the Whitehouse dining room..that was never in their living quarters
Exactly. Third-rate “artist” for sure.
I think this artist did a much better job of capturing the likeness of B Obama. Although the painting itself is ridiculous. I think the quality of Michelle’s painting is just awful, nor does it look anything like her.
The people looked like real people,no artistic gimmicks.
Thats it-I just like realism.
Oh wow - I never saw the art they put up. No class at all. Now their choice of artists to paint themselves makes more sense!
Flower/Deflower.
I don't write it, I just report it.
Neither one is smiling or even close to appreciating the offices they held nor the country they were to serve. Heck BO has no tie at all.....and in a vine garden no less....it’s a horrible pointing...looks like a cartoon and so does hers.
Captured her true inner beauty...
LOL!!!
They do this on purpose.....zero appreciation for the offices they held nor an understanding of our Historical WhiteHouse....they didn’t care then and they sure have just shown in these paintings they don’t now.
At least the artist had Chewbacca seated with a very full skirt surrounding her. That’s about the only way to camouflage Moochie’s giagantic wide load booty and her thunder thighs.
The Barack portrait looks a before picture for a laxative advertisement.
Gone with the Wind ?
The artist for Michele said.......”My work began as an exploration to exclude the idea of color as race from my paintings by removing color but still portraying racialised bodies as objects to be viewed through portraiture. Amy Sherald
That painting didn’t capture her angry sour spirit?
horrible portrait. It has no life. You can say a lot of things about Michelle Obama, but you cannot say that she ever sat still with a boring poker-player look on her face. She has an extremely expressive face and real portraitist would have captured something of that energy (while pretty-ing it up a bit).
They both look like cartoons at best........neither sMiling....just awful all around
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