Michelle Obama portrait faces brutal mockery after unveiling

Fox News ^ | February 12, 2018 | Barnini Chakraborty

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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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[Leaning Right]

> ...with vines growing up his legs! <

As weird as Michelle’s portrait is, Barack’s is worse. It looks like he is being slowly enveloped by plants.

[Alas Babylon!]

CC rider:

Yeti with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Yeti with a blue dress on!

[where's_the_Outrage?]

My first thought was Karma. But then I decided let's compare to other presidents (I was kind of expecting realistic portraits like in the White House)

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After her portrait was unveiled, the former first lady said she “was a little overwhelmed, to say the least.”

She added, “I’m also thinking about all the young people, particularly girls and girls of color, who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up, and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall.”

1. Stop talking about color. No one gives a flip.

2. No one is ever going to look at these portraits and hope they one day can have some joke of perpetual posterity played on them....

[Vendome]

Just got around to looking at Barack’s portrait.

Was the subject for his hands an alien?

[Mears]

I really liked the one by Paul D’Amato.

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[caww]

Not even close!..

[PeterPrinciple]

I really liked the one by Paul D’Amato.

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Curious as to why?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I think the artists intention was to make Michael look a little more feminine than usual.

[Red Badger]

So, it captured his persona perfectly.....................

[Califreak]

That doesn’t look like a painting of a formoer FLOTUS.

It looks like a Mahogany greeting card.

[RightGeek]

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[PeterPrinciple]

These portraits will disappear and be replaced when no one is looking

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What happened to the bust of Hillary?

Hillary Clinton’s bust (The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton: The First Woman President of the United States) was massaged into shape by Daniel Edwards for display at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan,

[Bob434]

in thaT PORTRAIT OF clinton i believe the artist supposedly included the shadow of the blue dress on the wall-

[BenLurkin]

Excellent!

[BenLurkin]

Clinton’s painting looks like he should have his little bent willie poking out of his trousers.....

[Mears]

The people looked like real people,no artistic gimmicks.

That’s it-——I just like realism.

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[RooRoobird20]

Obama says Chewbacca is hot?!?

LMAO, I suppose he had to say that, otherwise Chewbacca would have beaten the cr@p out of him!