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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As a rule, a portrait artist will use his/her own face as a starting point.
Comes from all those years of practicing in front of a mirror.
Looks like Alec Baldwin.
That’s a FABULOUS picture!!
Its a crap painting. You could pick up a copy of American Art Collector magazine on any given month and find a dozen artists who could paint circles around this chick.
It’s not horrible, it’s just not good.
Sort of like when my father in law died. I went to the funeral home a few hours before the viewing to approve of the job they did. They had his hair combed in a way he never did it and it truly looked like someone else. They were able to correct it.
BTE, wanna see an absolutely atrocious official portrait? Go on the White House tour. At one point you can see the official Michelle Obama portrait. I think a racoon with a paint my numbers set could do a better job.
“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.“
Bull. One bad review or painting can’t change the “it” factor in art. If she has it she has it and that’s it. This portrait doesn’t look like Trump. You could duplicate the effect she painted by digitizing a pic of Trump in roughly the same position and scaling slightly smaller the eyes, nose and mouth.
She’s TDS, Only that sort of piece of crap would sell out their talent so easily.
“Am I the only one that thinks it looks very much like the artist,…”
Nope. I immediately thought the same thing.
It’s terrible. Learn to paint.
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