scroll to right, I made it big on purpose.
The portrait is different. Its certainly not traditional. But I don’t think its so bad that it deserves mockery. Personally, I really don’t care who a First Lady gets to paint her portrait or what it looks like. If Michelle picked the artist, which is what all other presidents and first lady’s do, then so be it.
Now the Barack Obama portrait, on the other hand, deserves mockery. He is a president. His portrait should conform to certain norms. Being seated in front of flowers and vines is unbelievably bad — beyond parody.
The artist for Michele said.......”My work began as an exploration to exclude the idea of color as race from my paintings by removing ‘color’ but still portraying racialised bodies as objects to be viewed through portraiture.” — Amy Sherald