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Artist who painted ‘worst’ Trump portrait for Colorado State Capitol says 41-year career may be doomed after prez’s criticism
NY Post ^ | 04/06/2025 | Jared Downing

Posted on 04/06/2025 5:45:07 PM PDT by simpson96

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To: simpson96

I always wanted a pet chipmunk.


61 posted on 04/06/2025 7:38:58 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 thoe prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: simpson96

FAFO!!!!!!

Too bad!


62 posted on 04/06/2025 7:45:29 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s like something from a Quentin Tarantino movie.
A burlesque of gratuitous gore.


63 posted on 04/06/2025 7:47:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: madison10

No it doesn’t ....and the “fact”
that the story reports it’s garnered positive reactions could mean they were being kind to the artist and her bad art and/or they just liked the obvious fact that it made Trump look bloated and unsure of himself....obviously the portrait was done by someone who doesn’t like the man, and likes him less now.


64 posted on 04/06/2025 7:50:58 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: simpson96

Speaking as a professional artist - It needs to be reworked. I don’t think she tried to make it look bad, but she is just not a great portrait artist. She’s is an “okay” portrait artist. Likenesses are very hard to get right and you need to flatter the person at the same time. Her other portraits are a little better, but I see the same kind of “not quite up to presidential portrait calibre” problems. All the faces are a little too smooth and pudgy...or something.


65 posted on 04/06/2025 7:51:00 PM PDT by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: simpson96

it’s not as bad as that jesus portrait fix…


66 posted on 04/06/2025 8:17:55 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: madison10

“It doesn’t look like him.”

True. Looks like the Alec Baldwin impersonation.


67 posted on 04/06/2025 8:26:17 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: NFHale

But she should’ve had him sit for a portrait to get it more realistic view.
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Well, maybe she should take another shot at it....


68 posted on 04/06/2025 8:33:12 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: madison10

Looks like Alec Baldwin


69 posted on 04/06/2025 8:41:57 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: madison10
It doesn’t look like him.

Kinda looks a little like Alec Baldwin.

70 posted on 04/06/2025 9:48:58 PM PDT by Ranxerox
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To: madison10

It looks like her if she was a man😆


71 posted on 04/06/2025 10:00:15 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 )
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To: Waverunner
>
Elon Musk as Spock
JD Vance as Scotty
Mike Johnson as Bones
Pete Hegseth as some un-named guy in a red shirt who beams down with Kirk (watch out)
Pam Bondi as Yeoman Rand
Kristi Noam as Nurse Chapel
John Thune as a Klingon in a bar on a space station
The Gop house and senate as Tribbles
The democrats as the Horta

That's really good, LOL!

72 posted on 04/06/2025 10:28:35 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: madison10

doesn’t look like him.

Not even close. Looks like someone with mumps.


73 posted on 04/06/2025 10:37:11 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: Jamestown1630

It looks nothing like him. She painted quite good portraits of Obama and Bush, though.


74 posted on 04/06/2025 10:55:42 PM PDT by madison10 (God chose President Trump. Satan chose judges and Democrats.)
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To: madison10

It makes him look like shit.


75 posted on 04/06/2025 10:59:55 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: madison10

No, but it looks like she did the best of her ability without him sitting for it, only to be insulted and humiliated because she chose to depict him as a human being rather than the Devil.

If she had wanted to make him look bad the skin color would be orange, he would be shown with his too tiny pouty mouth, he would look either stupid or mean, all of which liberals depict him as easily, and even so their efforts are recognized as being depictions of him. She did none of that, and made a nice if boring somewhat sympathetic portrait whose failing is making him look a lovably chubby.

He should apologize to her for shooting his mouth off prematurely and being an ass.


76 posted on 04/06/2025 11:05:02 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: simpson96

FAFO. She altered his facial proportions to give him an almost sinister aura.


77 posted on 04/06/2025 11:23:37 PM PDT by navymom1 (God bless President Trump!)
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To: ETCM

You are entirely correct. A more perceptive portrait of Trump would be embraced by him and his supporters. The painter could even offer Trump an explanation: that with the benefit of time and experience, she is a better artist and Trump is a better President, with deeper character evident to her as a portraitist.


78 posted on 04/07/2025 12:25:12 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: simpson96

Without the hairdo and the signature red tie, it would be hard to recognize this as Trump


79 posted on 04/07/2025 2:11:21 AM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie. Normal is not coming back, but Jesus will. )
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To: goodnesswins

What’s off is his mouth, and the cheeks are a bit too full. She failed to capture the twinkle in his eye. His mouth turns down a bit on one side while the other looks ready to pop into a smirk...unless he’s pissed. She didn’t capture his spirit. She made him flat and dead.

I’m thinking she’no/ a Trump supporter. She did well with zero.


80 posted on 04/07/2025 2:43:33 AM PDT by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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