Posted on 11/04/2009 3:20:11 PM PST by kristinn
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ARTnews has reported that the White House has quietly de-listed a painting by Alma W. Thomas that it chose last month, among some 45 pieces borrowed from several Washington museums, to decorate the private White House residence and the West and East Wings.
Titled, “Watusi (Hard Edge)” from 1963, the work takes a Matisse collage and, as Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times, praising the selection, “shifts the pieces around, cools the colors down, and adds a title that refers to a Chubby Checker song.”
“But through copying Matisse,” Mr. Cotter added, “she began to work out a format she would use again and again.”
Some conservative Web sites, like Freerepublic.com, had criticized the painting as a fraud, calling it a “re-colored reprint” and questioning the wisdom of hanging it in the White House. By late October, the painting, which had been destined for the East Wing, had been removed from the list of works bound for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, ARTnews reported, though a second Thomas painting from 1973 remains on the list. The Hirshhorn Museum, which owns the painting, confirmed that the 1963 work had been sent back, but no one involved with the White House loans at the museum would say why, the publication said.
Semonti Stephens, the deputy press secretary for Mrs. Obama, said that the painting had been intended to go in the first lady’s office and that the the decision not to put it there was made only because its dimensions did not work in the space in which it was to hang.
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I saw your first post. Good on you! That was an interesting experience.
Now, will you get a tax audit?
I think the White HOuse has a warehouse full of stuff the president can choose from...I remember when Jackie O found some antiques that she brought into the White house to use...Loans would probably be a courtsey to the President whoever he may be...I think most things borrowed go into the private living quarters, but some may also be used in the offices...
Why do I feel confident that no Norman Rockwell works will be displayed?
What a POS, just like the POTUS.
The Snail, 1953, Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on white paper, collection Tate Gallery
Mac! Quit goofing off at the neighbor’s and get back home!
Mom
Henri Matisse is probably laughing his arse off.
I just assumed it was a given.
I went to see “Blue Man Group” a while back, and they did a routine that I just loved where they put different color dyes in their mouth and try to out-do each other in various techniques of spitting it out.
One guy takes a square white cardboard, puts it on a thing and spins it around while spitting on the dye on it, kind of a human spin-art machine, then when he is done, he slaps a $1000 label on it and puts it on a wall...:)
I loved it. Spitting on paper at random and selling it for big money as a poke at art! They are avant garde artists themselves, but they know the score if they can poke fun at it that way. (As an aside, I heard that they do sell them for charity donations!)
Ha...have you ever read Gary Aldrich’s book “Unlimited Access”? He spends a whole chapter on the Clinton White House Christmas arrangements.
I think that was enough to cause him to retire from the FBI.
That's the main thing! If it fits, who cares about the artistic attributes?
the art czar is an idiot, too. what a shock
Is he another urban thug?
Matisse is still a great artist.
This collage may be one of his weakest works,
out of many thousands of ‘experiments’ great artists
produce over a lifetime to keep developing their ‘chops’.
The fact that an Obama-sanctioned “artist” chose this
nothing painting by Matisse to copy, speaks the proverbial volumes about what a cultural reprobate Obama is: consider that ludicrous “poet” he chose for his inaugural, best now forgotten, because it was so bad NOBODY wants to remember it. Even worse than that self-created legend Maya Angelou and the poem she did at the Clinton Inaugural.
Clinton, the forerunner to Obama, who when asked about who his favorite musician was, said , with no irony, “Kenny G”.
These people don’t rise to the level of cultural trailer trash.
Reminds me of the Steven Wright joke:
“I went to a museum dedicated to Children’s Art.
It was room after room of paintings, all hung on refrigerators”.
“A package of colored construction paper”..
HEY, don’t forget, that’s how SOUTH PARK started!
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