Posted on 04/06/2025 5:45:07 PM PDT by simpson96
The artist behind a portrait of Donald Trump in the Colorado State Capitol says her career could be in tatters now that the president has besmirched it on social media.
Sarah Boardman’s painting of the president had hung in the Denver building for six years before Trump called it “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst” on his Truth Social platform in January, prompting state lawmakers to yank it off the wall.
Now the artist’s 41-year career “is in danger of not recovering” from the backlash, Boardman said in a statement on her website on Saturday.
“For the 6 years that the portrait hung in the Colorado State Capitol Building Rotunda, I received overwhelmingly positive reviews and feedback,” Boardman said. “Since President Trump’s comments, that has changed for the worst.”
It was Colorado Republicans who had actually raised more than $10,000 through a GoFundMe account to commission the oil painting during Trump’s first term in 2019.
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But the president now says he would rather have no portrait at all than Boardman’s work hanging up, comparing it to a nearby portrait of former President Barack Obama, who Trump said “looks wonderful.
“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the state Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote.
Boardman countered in her statement, “I completed the portrait accurately, without ‘purposeful distortion,’ political bias, or any attempt to caricature the subject, actual or implied. I fulfilled the task per my contract.”
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The jaw is too flaccid.
Look at the old Stalinist bastard on the left.
Artists often work from photographs to get realism.
Actually, I can’t believe they paid ten thousand for that!!!
I don’t think you’re sorry at all...
Trump, like most at his age, has some serious ‘sag’ going on, and he did even when the portrait was painted:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/10/25/us/25TRUMPTAPES1/25TRUMPTAPES1-superJumbo.jpg
I think she should have elongated his face somewhat; but I don’t know what photo she worked from.
Yeah, those two look much closer to their subjects than Trump’s.
But they all look like they were done from photos.
AI was available then?
His face looks squished down. It looks like he has a funny little white Hitler mustache (or when I enlarge the image, it looks like two streams of snot running down from his nose.)
I remember when Peter Hurd was commissioned to paint Lyndon Baines Johnson’s official portrait.
When presented, LBJ said “That’s the ugliest thing I ever saw.” and refused to accept it.
Yet somehow Peter Hurd’s career managed to NOT ‘be doomed’ by that.
As to this particular Trump painting..... Am I the only one that thinks it looks very much like the artist, not the supposed subject???
Like she used a mirror instead of a photo of Trump to guide her brush strokes and paint colors?
SORRY—_CHICKEE—THIS DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE TRUMP WE HAVE KNOWN FOR YEARS.
Looks like he has 2 chins.
Someone needs to put it in Google and see who Google facial recognition thinks it is. Or is it Facebook that will do that?
Ha!, you beat me to it.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought so.
? What the heck? How could she see it for what it is and that was painted six years ago? It’s not just awful, it’s insulting.
I can see that too.
Now Trump knows how England’s King Charles felt, when he commissioned his first official portrait as King, and had artist Jonathan Yeo do it. The result was called
King Charles’ Red Portrait. My opinion? It looks ‘bloody’ ominous!
She was messing with him. Anyone can see that. He never looked even close to that fat and jowely. Bitch.
Gosh, I hadn’t seen that.
I sort of like the idea of it, but not in a portrait of the King.
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