Skip to comments.
Off the Wall: White House Changes Mind About Painting (FReeper Victory!)
The New York Times ^
| Wednesday, November 4, 2009
| Randy Kennedy
Posted on 11/04/2009 3:20:11 PM PST by kristinn
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 121-138 next last
To: Indy Pendance
It was done to subvert the art world and public perceptions of art. Now we’ve had nearly 100 years of anti-art. It is the new establishment.
21
posted on
11/04/2009 3:32:40 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: kristinn; TChris
Here's an overlay with the original rotated posted by TChris in the other thread in case anyone missed it.
![](http://i34.tinypic.com/2epms7c.jpg)
Close enough to be plagiarism even in most public high schools.
22
posted on
11/04/2009 3:33:36 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
To: Teflonic
I dont understand anybody that would call that art.
My niece painted better than that .... when she was 3.
23
posted on
11/04/2009 3:33:47 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: kristinn
Excellent!
Now I wonder if it’s common practice to borrow paintings from museums to decorate the WH. I’ve not heard of this being done by presidents in the past.
24
posted on
11/04/2009 3:35:26 PM PST
by
ElayneJ
To: kristinn
Have the Obombas been using Ward Churchill as an art consultant?
25
posted on
11/04/2009 3:35:32 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
To: kristinn
Um. was this a black artist by any chance? A feminist icon for some reason?
There has to be a reason they chose it. Just diss the original, maybe?
26
posted on
11/04/2009 3:37:39 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: Indy Pendance
The railing around them to keep people from fondling the red, yellow, or blue squares cracks me up. As if a replacement print couldn’t be produced in ten minutes if one were damaged.
27
posted on
11/04/2009 3:38:24 PM PST
by
Teflonic
To: San Jacinto
I’ve got the original hanging on my refrigerator! It’s from my grandkid’s nursery school.
Yours is a fruad I have the original hanging on my refrigerator. My granddaughter painted it.
28
posted on
11/04/2009 3:38:24 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Domandred
The New York Times celebrated the masterstroke genius of it all...
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.
The emperor's new clothes really ARE snazzy.
29
posted on
11/04/2009 3:38:27 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: kristinn
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.
I'd be curious to know the dimensions of the painting and the dimensions of its replacement.
30
posted on
11/04/2009 3:38:42 PM PST
by
Brown Deer
(4 Google execs are on Obama's staff - YouTube is owned by Google)
To: kristinn
I think this masterpeice, the original, is just a color test for Matisse.
If we could talk to the dead... lol.. “Masterpeice? Your talking about my color palette test!”
31
posted on
11/04/2009 3:39:21 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: kristinn
Semonti Stephens, the deputy press secretary for Mrs. Obama, said that the painting had been intended to go in the first ladys 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.
Yeah. The one of 45 they send back.
32
posted on
11/04/2009 3:40:04 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Why not "interpret" your tax returns like the Supreme Court "interprets" the Constitution?)
To: San Jacinto
I’ve got the original hanging on my refrigerator! It’s from my grandkid’s nursery school.
Yours is a fruad I have the original hanging on my refrigerator. My granddaughter painted it.
33
posted on
11/04/2009 3:40:29 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Buck Farack)
To: Teflonic
When I saw it, the railing was there. Like it’s the Mona Lisa.
34
posted on
11/04/2009 3:40:30 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(Conservatives are their worst nightmare)
To: Flint
35
posted on
11/04/2009 3:40:49 PM PST
by
Running On Empty
((The three sorriest words:"It's too late"))
To: kristinn
the work takes a Matisse collage and, as Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times, praising the selection, shifts the pieces around
Nothing “shifted”. The identical composition was rotated 90 degrees.
36
posted on
11/04/2009 3:40:53 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Why not "interpret" your tax returns like the Supreme Court "interprets" the Constitution?)
To: Indy Pendance
lol!!
I bet they had a 3-page explanation about how Red, Yellow and Blue was a comment on materialism, war and the awfulness of western civilization.
37
posted on
11/04/2009 3:41:50 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: Domandred
Ah, c’mon now, great artistic minds think alike, doncha know??? ; )
38
posted on
11/04/2009 3:42:20 PM PST
by
LucyJo
To: Brown Deer
You’ll have to ask Michelle yourself.
39
posted on
11/04/2009 3:42:40 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
To: Teflonic
A package of color construction paper....
So much art, even before you cut them!
40
posted on
11/04/2009 3:43:56 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 121-138 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson