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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: woofie
African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists


He hates white men.
21 posted on 05/22/2009 2:02:16 PM PDT by Vision (Obama is a jive turkey)
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To: windcliff; raven92876

Good Times!
22 posted on 05/22/2009 2:03:01 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: C19fan

23 posted on 05/22/2009 2:03:34 PM PDT by Woebama (Paying for my neighbor's mortgage and Wall Street's bonuses sure is hard.)
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To: C19fan

That sucka done started taggin’ the whiteyhouse???


24 posted on 05/22/2009 2:03:36 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: C19fan

of course the “Che” poster will replace the portrait of George Washington.


25 posted on 05/22/2009 2:04:08 PM PDT by pennboricua
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To: C19fan

He hates America, our history, our culture and our children.
Next: Spinners on the landing gear of Air Force 1.


26 posted on 05/22/2009 2:04:25 PM PDT by two23
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To: Godwin1

Mary with elephant dung was always my favorite piece of art done by a black artist. That should go in Michelle's boudoir.

27 posted on 05/22/2009 2:05:41 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: C19fan

Che’ posters?


28 posted on 05/22/2009 2:05:48 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: C19fan

29 posted on 05/22/2009 2:06:08 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: C19fan
This will be replacing Washington's portrait:


30 posted on 05/22/2009 2:06:39 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Powell/Whorealdo 2012- The New GOP Dream Ticket)
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To: C19fan
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.

Afrinazi pukes ... I guess AMERICAN artists aren't good enough for these jerks?

31 posted on 05/22/2009 2:06:47 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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To: C19fan
the White House should be about OUR history......not Asian or African......or anything else. much as obama might not want a hallway of dead white men BUT they were our presidents. the scenery painted is our scenery.....our land of the free......has he taken the American flags down yet?
32 posted on 05/22/2009 2:07:31 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Liberty Valance

33 posted on 05/22/2009 2:08:04 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: woofie

>>How about art from us white guys?

Ain’t gonna happen, honkey.


34 posted on 05/22/2009 2:08:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: C19fan

Is it common practice to send out requests to galleries and museums like this? Seems like they could purchase some pieces.


35 posted on 05/22/2009 2:08:04 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: C19fan

Artwork by Nicholas de Stael

36 posted on 05/22/2009 2:08:27 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ElayneJ

Confiscation is always cheaper than buying.


37 posted on 05/22/2009 2:09:00 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: C19fan

Artwork by Nicholas de Stael

http://www.fulcrumgallery.com/a51497/Nicolas-De-Stael.htm?source=GoogleAdWords&ad=NICOLASDESTAEL&gclid=CK2hkdbq0JoCFQIyxwodDCJBkw

Nicolas De Stael
Nicolas de Staël, (5 January 1914 – 16 March 1955) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscapes. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles. In the 1930s, he traveled throughout Europe, lived in Paris (1934) and in Morocco. In 1941, he moved to Nice where he met Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Robert Delaunay. These artists would inspire his first abstract paintings, or “Compositions”. In 1943, (during the Nazi occupation) de Staël returned to Paris. There he met Braque, and a 1945 exposition brought him critical fame. In 1948 in Paris he began a long friendship with German artist Johnny Friedlaender. He had considerable success in the United States and England in the early 1950s, but by 1953, de Staël’s depression led him to seek isolation in the south of France (eventually in Antibes), and he committed suicide in 1955.


38 posted on 05/22/2009 2:10:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: C19fan

Major stupidity while Rome Burns Ping.


39 posted on 05/22/2009 2:11:25 PM PDT by rlmorel ("In the northern hemisphere, nations swirl to the left before going down the sewer." - glock rocks)
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To: C19fan

Money can’t buy taste, and the Obambis are “The Chicago Hillbillies go to Washington.”


40 posted on 05/22/2009 2:11:27 PM PDT by hsalaw
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