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Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits unveiled
NYPost ^ | iled By Yaron Steinbuch February 12, 2018 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 02/12/2018 9:54:40 PM PST by Daffynition

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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

The picture seems just plain weird until one stops to think that the subject of the art and the artist seem to be bowing to the norms of what Islam thinks about representations of humans.
Note that his hand has on its outer side either an extra pinky or a thumb on the wrong side of this hand’s set of fingers. Weird, but that startling hand serves a purpose. It turns image from a real human into something on closer inspection one sees is not human, thereby meeting the Islamic law and preference of not opening opening oneself up to human representation in art.

Obama’s advisors and he himself have surrounded him with a hale of vines and greenery, as is the essence of Islamic art’s taste for the depiction of crawling vines, plants as the main, if not exclusive theme of art.

Obama body, in stark contrast to other presidential portraits, does not stand, just as so so many immigrant Muslims and kneeling football players show their disdain for America by refusing to stand for the flag and the national anthem. Instead he slouches and his legs apart. There are spoofs already out there superimposing a white bathroom commode with flusher for this chair, this because of the every so familiar sitting posture he has struck here.

He could not decline a presidential portrait for the portrait gallery, so he decided to create a scene that mocks the U.S. and the entire non-Islamic world.


41 posted on 02/12/2018 11:55:07 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Daffynition

My sole concern is: is the taxpayers paying for it?


42 posted on 02/13/2018 12:11:02 AM PST by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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To: Daffynition

ROFLMAO... good God... so pathetic.


43 posted on 02/13/2018 12:25:36 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: All

Seems appropriate for a guy who led a majority of Americans down the garden path.


44 posted on 02/13/2018 12:26:44 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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45 posted on 02/13/2018 12:27:02 AM PST by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now
41 The picture seems just plain weird until one stops to think that the subject of the art and the artist seem to be bowing to the norms of what Islam thinks about representations of humans. ...

The painting by Kehinde Wiley is called “Judith and Holofernes,” which refers to a story from the apocryphal Book of Judith which inspired a whole bunch of art during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. While the original story did involve a woman whacking off a guy’s head, Wiley’s choice to use a black woman holding a dead white woman's severed head is clearly a deliberate one. Wiley’s become pretty famous for his reimagining of traditional European portraits using black people as stand-ins.

The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, with whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the Israelites. Gaining his trust, she is allowed access to his tent one night as he lies in a drunken stupor. She decapitates him, then takes his head back to her fearful countrymen. The Assyrians, having lost their leader, disperse, and Israel is saved. Though she is courted by many, Judith remains unmarried for the rest of her life.

1613 - Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Cristafano Allori

46 posted on 02/13/2018 12:41:09 AM PST by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
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To: MacNaughton

I’m referring to the new “portraits” of the Obamas that this artist did, not the one with the beheaded woman by the same artist.


47 posted on 02/13/2018 12:52:01 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

The left hand looks deformed.


48 posted on 02/13/2018 12:59:16 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: Daffynition

I think these portraits qualify for the Trump curse.


49 posted on 02/13/2018 1:06:24 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Daffynition

Are those marijuana plants?


50 posted on 02/13/2018 1:06:37 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Daffynition

he has no thumbs on his left hand!


51 posted on 02/13/2018 1:20:35 AM PST by MNDude (This is story is so tragic,)
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To: Daffynition

https://www.bing.com/search?q=preservation+hall+new+orleans&form=hpcapt&filters=HpDate%3a%2220180213_0800%22

The Bing people have a sense of humor.


52 posted on 02/13/2018 2:28:23 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: Daffynition

Looks like she’s wearing window curtains, not only in the portrait but IRL.


53 posted on 02/13/2018 2:38:24 AM PST by Zack Attack
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54 posted on 02/13/2018 2:39:37 AM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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55 posted on 02/13/2018 2:43:28 AM PST by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Daffynition

Tan line where his wedding ring should be.


56 posted on 02/13/2018 3:05:32 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: laplata

He wipes his ass with that left hand.


57 posted on 02/13/2018 3:15:18 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Daffynition
It is more of that subtle, edgy, subterranean, push the culture "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed".... that we dealt with for ( including his run ) for about 10 freakin' years. Will they ever let it go and just go with tradition? Na....
58 posted on 02/13/2018 3:18:55 AM PST by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: Daffynition
The 2 black artists that did these HIDEOUS paintings are HACKS! Obama's artist painted black women with DECAPITATED White Woman's head...TWICE!

And the Mooch painter is obviously NOT GOOD....but maybe they love it because it looks nothing like the Mooch!

59 posted on 02/13/2018 4:25:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Daffynition

I like it better without the unsightly weed in the middle.


60 posted on 02/13/2018 4:35:59 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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