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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I always wanted a pet chipmunk.
FAFO!!!!!!
Too bad!
It’s like something from a Quentin Tarantino movie.
A burlesque of gratuitous gore.
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.
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.
it’s not as bad as that jesus portrait fix…
“It doesn’t look like him.”
True. Looks like the Alec Baldwin impersonation.
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....
Looks like Alec Baldwin
Kinda looks a little like Alec Baldwin.
It looks like her if she was a man😆
That's really good, LOL!
doesn’t look like him.
Not even close. Looks like someone with mumps.
It looks nothing like him. She painted quite good portraits of Obama and Bush, though.
It makes him look like shit.
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.
FAFO. She altered his facial proportions to give him an almost sinister aura.
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.
Without the hairdo and the signature red tie, it would be hard to recognize this as Trump
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.
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