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Well Hung: Bubba’s Hip New Portrait (Picture This: Bill Is Framed)
NY Post ^ | Ian Bishop | April 25, 2006

Posted on 04/25/2006 8:08:39 AM PDT by dead

Bill Clinton has never looked so "hip." This jacket-pulled-back, extended-hip pose of the former president was unveiled last night during a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution.

In the unconventional creation by artist Nelson Shanks, Clinton bears a passing resemblance to former "Nightline" host Ted Koppel and has a hint of a scowl on his face.

But it was the former president's somewhat unpresidential, somewhat louche stance in the Oval Office that had people talking from Washington to New York...

The painting will hang as part of the newly expanded exhibition "America's Presidents" when the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery opens on July 1 in Washington.

"I have reservations about having a large portrait of me," Clinton said at the unveiling ceremony, where he was joined by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea. "If you grew up when I did, portraits were for dead people."

Curator Carolyn Kinder Carr says Clinton appears "intense" and sports a "warm gaze" as if to "greet an unseen visitor."

The other portrait commissioned at the same time features a more-traditional profile of Sen. Clinton striking her best Susan B. Anthony dollar pose.

Sen. Clinton chose Ginny Stanford to paint her portrait - the first time the Portrait Gallery has commissioned that one be painted of the first lady at the same time as the president's.

While many liked Hillary's pose, some of the same people said Bill's "Inside the Beltway" portrait looked very unpresidential.

Carol Baker, 65, a tourist from London, said Clinton's pose looks feminine.

"He looks very effeminate for some reason," she said. "He ought to be wearing a white shirt."

Both paintings were paid for by Clinton's friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton
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To: dead
Won't the old goat accept that he's just that. But then...I guess a nasty old goat just CAN'T accept it.

HEY! billyblythe! You're NOT hip any longer. Not even the young kids want to know "boxers or briefs" about you aaaaaanymore! Even Monica'd look the other way now.

Get a grip y'old man.

141 posted on 04/25/2006 8:06:34 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: mewzilla

Those are NOT shillery's eyes! THOSE eyes are human!


142 posted on 04/25/2006 8:07:53 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: stylecouncilor

Preferably well hanged.


143 posted on 04/25/2006 10:17:18 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Polyxene
The grim reaper has been looking over your shoulder for a long time now.

That portrait makes him look like death warmed over!

144 posted on 04/25/2006 11:04:32 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: gopwinsin04
/sigh

It is lunchtime here.

145 posted on 04/25/2006 11:06:31 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: martin_fierro

LOL. I should have known you would be on this one. Do you still have the "leisure suit clinton" pic?


146 posted on 04/26/2006 3:53:49 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: dead

Could you tell if Bubba is wearing his wedding ring in that portrait?


147 posted on 04/26/2006 4:46:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: raybbr
Do you still have the "leisure suit clinton" pic?

?

This is all that came to mind:

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148 posted on 04/26/2006 5:58:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: dead; dighton

He's wearing the wrong outfit. That pose requires something else:


149 posted on 04/26/2006 7:20:57 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart
That pose requires something else

olé... er... touché. ;)
(It DOES have the bull, tho.)

150 posted on 04/26/2006 5:13:23 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
Toreador, hey! don't spit on the floor
Use the cuspidor
That's what it's for...

151 posted on 04/26/2006 5:17:43 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: hellinahandcart

Too bad nobody told him....


152 posted on 04/26/2006 5:22:53 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: reagan_fanatic

Note how everything about this portrait draws attention to the crotch. The central location on the frame, the red tie, the pointing fingers, the bent-back posture, the jacket pulled back like a theater's curtain. The whole thing is a inside joke by the artist, displaying what he thinks of as being most important about his subject.

Project out the lines from the mantle and the bottom of the fireplace. The horizon line used to construct the perspective runs through at belt height. None of this is accidental.

Then let's look at some of the other props in the room. We have the fireplace poker (Not too subtle there...). We have the massive columns. We even have bushy dark shrubs. Then the rigid linear man is offset by not one but two curvaceous feminine urns, one prominent and one mostly hidden from view...

And the funny thing is, Bill likes it!

153 posted on 04/27/2006 12:25:55 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: bondjamesbond

From the unveiling.

Well, look at that. Look at what got hung at eye-level. What are the chances?...

154 posted on 04/27/2006 12:30:02 PM PDT by bondjamesbond (RICE 2008)
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To: debg

delusion
Pronunciation: di-'lü-zh&n, dE-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin delusion-,
delusio, from deludere

A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. In psychiatry, the definition is necessarily more precise and implies that the belief is pathological (the result of an illness or illness process).

155 posted on 04/28/2006 3:18:17 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: dead
clintonportrait.gif

156 posted on 04/28/2006 8:57:08 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: dead

157 posted on 04/28/2006 9:02:39 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: dead

158 posted on 04/28/2006 9:03:55 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: isthisnickcool

That was my FIRST reaction, too!!!!


159 posted on 04/28/2006 9:04:51 AM PDT by true_blue_texican (grateful texan!)
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To: dead

160 posted on 04/28/2006 9:07:08 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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