Changing the Art on the White House Walls

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 22, 2009 | Amy Chozick and Kelly Crow

[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.

[Vision]

African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists


He hates white men.

[stylecouncilor]

Good Times!

[Woebama]

[humblegunner]

That sucka done started taggin’ the whiteyhouse???

[pennboricua]

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

[two23]

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

[DogBarkTree]

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

[5thGenTexan]

Che’ posters?

[Electric Graffiti]

[TADSLOS]

This will be replacing Washington's portrait:

[Centurion2000]

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?

[tioga]

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?

[Liberty Valance]

[freedumb2003]

>>How about art from us white guys?

Ain’t gonna happen, honkey.

[ElayneJ]

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

[kcvl]

Artwork by Nicholas de Stael

[Fresh Wind]

Confiscation is always cheaper than buying.

[kcvl]

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.

[rlmorel]

Major stupidity while Rome Burns Ping.

[hsalaw]

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