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Michelle Obama portrait faces brutal mockery after unveiling
Fox News ^ | February 12, 2018 | Barnini Chakraborty

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. She’s 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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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: blackkk; bushportrait; clintonportrait; killwhitey; michelle; michelleportrait; nationalportrait; natlportraitgallery; obama; obamanation; obamaportrait; portrait; selfcongratulation; washingtondc
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To: Olog-hai

The portraits of both resemble what third world countries would display of their dictators...

Cheap and Scary.


41 posted on 02/12/2018 10:13:05 AM PST by HypatiaTaught (Whatever's good for your soul, do it.)
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To: Olog-hai

“grace and beauty and intelligence and charm and hotness”
Liberals are indeed out of contact with reality.


42 posted on 02/12/2018 10:13:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: BenLurkin

He looks like he is in the woods to take care of personal business.


43 posted on 02/12/2018 10:14:13 AM PST by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Olog-hai

Mooch is appropriating white culture by straightening her hair!!

Racist!


44 posted on 02/12/2018 10:14:26 AM PST by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah— reminds one of those “art” portraits of say, Pablo Escobar. unnaturally long hands all out of proportion to the rest of the perspective (un-forced perspective, at that, although it seems to have been painted from a wide angle lens ground/up view.


45 posted on 02/12/2018 10:14:58 AM PST by John S Mosby (SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS)
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To: Huskrrrr

I like the painting, but I don’t think it looks anything like her. Obama’s is a better likeness even though a chair placed in a bush is a bit weird.


46 posted on 02/12/2018 10:15:49 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Osage Orange

Michael looks like a clean shaven Russell Brand.


47 posted on 02/12/2018 10:16:18 AM PST by joethedrummer
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To: joethedrummer

About the winner:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/artsmash/bal-baltimorean-amy-sherald-wins-first-prize-in-smithsonian-portrait-contest-20160311-story.html

http://www.culturetype.com/2016/03/26/portrait-of-an-artist-baltimore-based-amy-sherald-wins-smithsonians-outwin-boochever-competition/


48 posted on 02/12/2018 10:16:22 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: joethedrummer

About the winner:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/artsmash/bal-baltimorean-amy-sherald-wins-first-prize-in-smithsonian-portrait-contest-20160311-story.html

http://www.culturetype.com/2016/03/26/portrait-of-an-artist-baltimore-based-amy-sherald-wins-smithsonians-outwin-boochever-competition/


49 posted on 02/12/2018 10:16:23 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: simpson96
Needs interpretation


50 posted on 02/12/2018 10:17:04 AM PST by spokeshave (FBI = Feral Bureau of Insurrection)
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To: Olog-hai

Put Kehinde Wiley in the goog and hit images. Look for decapitated white people.


51 posted on 02/12/2018 10:17:26 AM PST by Stentor
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To: GnuThere

To paraphrase Fred Sanford...looks like they stuck her face in dough, made a gorilla cookie, then took a photo!


52 posted on 02/12/2018 10:17:57 AM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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To: Huskrrrr

College Art major definitely could do better. This would garner second place at a public high school art fair...maybe. And NOT at a public school with a focus on the arts.


53 posted on 02/12/2018 10:18:00 AM PST by utahagen (but but)
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To: Olog-hai

So that’s what an artists rendition of a fat ugly slob looks like.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 10:18:26 AM PST by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Olog-hai

Looks more like a figure in one of those Central American revolutionary murals. Close enough, I guess.


55 posted on 02/12/2018 10:18:31 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Olog-hai

Forget who the portrait is of for a minute. It is a HORRIBLE painting. Terrible.


56 posted on 02/12/2018 10:18:32 AM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Olog-hai

>>>with her hair falling around her shoulders<<<

Shouldn’t that say, with her WIG falling around her shoulders?


57 posted on 02/12/2018 10:18:35 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

here are examples from the runner ups. Could have been worse.......................

http://www.culturetype.com/2016/03/26/portrait-of-an-artist-baltimore-based-amy-sherald-wins-smithsonians-outwin-boochever-competition/


58 posted on 02/12/2018 10:19:25 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Olog-hai

The portrait is different. Its certainly not traditional. But I don’t think its so bad that it deserves mockery. Personally, I really don’t care who a First Lady gets to paint her portrait or what it looks like. If Michelle picked the artist, which is what all other presidents and first lady’s do, then so be it.

Now the Barack Obama portrait, on the other hand, deserves mockery. He is a president. His portrait should conform to certain norms. Being seated in front of flowers and vines is unbelievably bad — beyond parody.


59 posted on 02/12/2018 10:19:30 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Olog-hai

Gray Lives Matter


60 posted on 02/12/2018 10:20:52 AM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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