Posted on 04/27/2018 3:53:30 PM PDT by ethom
First impressions are important, and for many people, their introduction to artist Amy Sherald and her work came in February. That’s when she stood alongside First Lady Michelle Obama and helped unveil her official portrait at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
Now the High Museum is honoring Sherald — who is a native of Columbus, Georgia — with this year’s David C. Driskell Prize, the first national award to honor and celebrate contributions to the field of art of the African Diaspora.
Sherald’s portrait of Obama features her seated in a stunning patterned dress, looking at once thoughtful and relaxed.
“As a portrait painter, you have the capacity to capture something that is not captured in photography, she tells City Lights host Lois Reitzes. “And in that moment, that’s what I saw. It was a piece of her or a type of energy that I hadn’t picked up in any of the photographs.”
The work also drew criticism due to Sherald’s use of grayscale for skin color.
“You grow up knowing that you’re black because other people look at you that way. Who would we be without all of the external directives?” she asks. Saying that her work is a means to explore “the crooks and the crannies of who you really are and how you really exist in the world.”
“I wanted these images to live in spaces where they can be commentary to black people. They can walk into a museum and rest their eyes on somebody that’s looking back and reflecting love to them,” Sherald said. “But viewers who are non-black can approach the image and maybe in a way internalize who these people are without dissecting them first based on their skin color.”
linebacker arms...maybe this is her nfl draft photo...
we rented a condo in Santa Fe a few yrs ago...they had an Obama photo in the br....it quickly got placed on the floor near the toilet where it belonged, facing in...
I’m glad I let my High membership lapse!
The hand under the chin is to hide the adam’s apple.
It’s a portrait of a dress! Lol!
I’m not sure if the portrait is that of The Mooch, but the dress is my parent’s shower curtain back in the 60s.
It’s pretty bad drawing!
Looks like someone raided the flag locker on the signal bridge and made a dress.
Yes, that does look like a caricature, she is too ‘white’ and about two or three neck/shoulder sizes small.
Maybe she is ‘surrendering’?????
19 Apr: UC Santa Barbara: ‘Intellect, Creativity and Commitment’
Three scientists and scholars are elected to the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Andrea Estrada
Their selection brings to 37 the number of UCSB faculty members who have been named fellows of the academy...
The 2018 class of the American Academy of Arts and Science includes President Barack Obama; Supreme Court Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor; Netflix, Inc. chief executive officer W. Reed Hastings; artist and scholar David C. Driskell...ETC
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018917/intellect-creativity-and-commitment
Wikipedia: David C. Driskell: In 2000, Driskell was honored by President Bill Clinton as one of 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal.
The dress was hardly “stunning”, except for overwhelming the “portrait”. Otherwise, the subject looks ANGLO and more like Jane Seymore, of Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman.
Sure captured Michelle’s F you look quite nicely...
What a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
Liberals are such simpletons but they are decaying our culture.
It’s an interesting painting but a bad portrait. That gown seems to be the actual subject, aside from the lack of a likeness to the sitter.
Looks like a black tranny wearing a designer curtain. A nice tat would be the coup de grace.
The painting/drawing is very flat in more ways than one.
LOL!
LOL, it’s lovely, and only she could wear it so well.
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