Posted on 02/12/2018 12:13:02 PM PST by grundle
Michelle Obama chose an artist named Amy Sherald to paint her official portrait.
The New York Times writes of Sherald:
Ms. Sherald only paints African-Americans.
I can’t wait for all the social justice warriors who want the government to force bakers to bake cakes for gay weddings, to use the exact same logic to try to get the government to force Sherald to paint portraits of white customers.
Just kidding. We all know those hypocrites are never going to do that.
Clint Eastwood loaned him the chair.
I will give the Obamas this, they’ve captured essentially how I’ve viewed them from day one.
Well, Michelle should probably be holding a hay fork, but otherwise they’ve got it right.
Not true! The “artist” does paint caucasian ladies, as long as they are a severed head being held by a “lady of color”, with a knife in the other hand.
her artwork is amazing... and I’m not saying that from the viewpoint of an art-critic.
Posted on 2/12/2018, 10:59:32 AM by MNDude
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3631487/posts
Michael Obama is the President of the Racists “R” Us club.
Thanks for the link.
Here are more via a Google search on this so called Artist:
“Ms. Sherald only paints African-Americans.”
As is her right under Amendment I.
It’s a good picture except Michelle looks rather unhappy.
Michelle I guess suffers from depression (despite Obamacare), but the artist should have painted her as if in a happy mood for an official portrait.
I like the Obama portrait.
she painted Michelle to look grey.
This is sort of like that “Emperor’s new clothes” tale. People are raving over her portrait ... compared to the other things this artist has done, this really sucks. There already are much better portraits of her, they should have chosen those.
I was proud to do her official song: FAT BUTT MICHELLE (Fat Bottom Girls)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5Hjz9LZQE
Did you see the portrait? SO totally hideous. I read that at the unveiling today at the Natl Portrait Gallery the audience gasped and/or laughed. It’s THAT bad, and Michelle heartily approved. No one ever thought she had taste, anyway. But she’s really good with that racist stuff.
In a few years Michelle Obama needs to have a second portrait done - then a few years after that replace the first one...
She’s a terrible painter.
I think Amy Sherald rendition of Michelle Obama was hostile. Our former First Lady is represented looking more like her daughter than herself - and the ‘whites and grays’ show her condemned for being ‘establishment’. Toward the bottom of the painting are the power stripes... more than in other works of this artist, but it's too campy.
It's an interesting work but disappointing. It won't survive the test of time. Michelle Obama deserves better.
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