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Changing the Art on the White House Walls
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 22, 2009 | Amy Chozick and Kelly Crow

Posted on 05/22/2009 1:50:39 PM PDT by C19fan

Barack Obama is taking on health care, financial regulation, torture and environmental policy. He’s also revamping the White House art collection.

The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. In a sharp departure from the 19th-century still lifes, pastorals and portraits that dominate the White House’s public rooms, they are choosing bold, abstract art works.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; art; bho44; bhowhitehouse; obama
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To: C19fan
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121 posted on 05/22/2009 7:10:42 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out
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122 posted on 05/22/2009 7:11:27 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: C19fan
Do you think Zerobama would be fooled if we sent him a boatload of this stuff by the famous Hispanic artist Tomas Kinkada? This is a picture of a barrio along the Rio Grande River.
123 posted on 05/22/2009 7:11:34 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: ladyvet
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124 posted on 05/22/2009 7:15:44 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: Ditter

I, nor my wife, are offended if people don’t like her work. In fact, we’ve met only a couple of artists who like what she does. They always call it “copy work”. It is true that her stuff looks realistic, but that’s what she enjoys doing. It also happens that 99 percent of non-artists love her work.

What put me off was that you automatically assumed that she projected the picture on a canvas and just copied it. Maybe that’s how your friends do their work, but its not how my wife does it. Maybe they don’t have the skill to look and imitate what they see without a projector. I would still like to see some of your work, or a piece that isn’t boring to you.


125 posted on 05/22/2009 11:42:25 PM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: Ditter; Skenderbej
Coming from a "supposed" artist and a long time FReeper, your post is the rudest, most boorish post I've ever seen here.

No class pal, absolutely none

126 posted on 05/23/2009 7:41:05 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (zer0 is doing to capitalism what Kennedy did to health care)
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To: C19fan

“that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. “

African-American, Hispanic art? Any city in the USA could send him miles of the graffiti that is covering everything.


127 posted on 05/23/2009 8:35:55 AM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; Ditter
I could not agree more with LV Ron.

Was it REALLY necessary to actually type out and send your thoughts Ditter? They would have been much better kept to yourself. It has been my experience that when someone puts down someone else, they only do it to try and elevate themselves because they lack confidence in their own abilities and talents.

128 posted on 05/23/2009 8:53:18 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Yo Barry, IF FOR 20 YEARS YOU STAY IN THE PEW, IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHARE THE VIEW!!!!!)
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To: kcvl

Those are nice!


129 posted on 05/23/2009 8:59:33 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: DoughtyOne
Over there is the picture of Allah.

No, not that. Pictures of Allah and/or Mohammad are strictly verboten. In fact so are pictures of anyone, but depictions of those two are "instant riot" material.

130 posted on 05/23/2009 9:01:23 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: C19fan
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131 posted on 05/23/2009 9:12:01 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: mojitojoe

I like that. Who did it, and when, is there some context to it's creation?

132 posted on 05/23/2009 9:13:29 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

;-)


133 posted on 05/23/2009 10:27:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama is mentally a child of ten. Just remember that when he makes statements and issues policy.)
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To: Liberty Valance
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134 posted on 05/23/2009 10:59:27 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (I like guns...)
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To: RetSignman
Marxist Pictures, Images and Photos
135 posted on 05/23/2009 11:03:37 AM PDT by Bush Revolution (I like guns...)
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To: lilycicero
Here's one of the new paintings: Ed Ruscha’s ‘I Think I’ll...’ (1983)


136 posted on 05/23/2009 11:20:14 AM PDT by Girlene (Lots of ways to finish that sentence.)
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To: C19fan

I’m just wondering if they’ve installed all-white furniture yet.


137 posted on 05/23/2009 1:06:00 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: C19fan

138 posted on 05/23/2009 1:12:14 PM PDT by Walmartian
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To: kcvl

Is that “Terrence and Philip?


139 posted on 05/23/2009 2:40:26 PM PDT by Don W (People who think are a threat to socialism)
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To: Skenderbej

WOW, the stories in that man’s face! The hat, the blazer, the undershirt all have tales to tell. The work is well-served with the indistinct background, it’s almost too busy now. The medals are almost a distraction.

A powerful, amazing portrait. Thank you for sharing that.


140 posted on 05/23/2009 2:49:17 PM PDT by Don W (People who think are a threat to socialism)
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