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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
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To: txroadkill
You’re missing the most important requirement: a cadre of snooty liberals to endore your work as art.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:06:08 PM PST
by
Teflonic
To: Domandred
I don’t think this is such a big deal. The earlier thread found quotes from the “artiste” that stated the “painting” was a merely study of Matisse’s work. So, actually, there was no fraudulent intent. But,,,, the thing is a piece of cr@p, and so is the work by Matisse!
To: kristinn
why doesn’t Michellemabelle just hang a pegboard with all those boob belts?
To: Indy Pendance
Do you think “Green Bedroom Wall” is pretensious enough?
64
posted on
11/04/2009 4:15:33 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: Brown Deer
To: Beelzebubba; kristinn; Pukadon
Here's my comparison from back then. The Matisse is on the left - the "copy was only rotated and re-sized to match. There are differences - its not an exact copy - but I now understand that if its termed "appropriation" instead of "plagiarism" then its ok. ;-)
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:20:19 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: eureka!
Can’t wait till Christmas for HQ TV to show case Whitehouse Christmas. Should be real interesting and fun for all.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:22:34 PM PST
by
ducks1944
(GOD Bless the USA .)
To: GeronL
How about ‘teenage daughter’s green bedroom wall’? (She’s an Iraqi Vet now, but we’ll have to cover that up) That’ll float their boat.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:22:55 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(Conservatives, we are their worst nightmare)
To: eureka!
Can’t wait till Christmas for HQ TV to show case Whitehouse Christmas. Should be real interesting and fun for all.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:23:20 PM PST
by
ducks1944
(GOD Bless the USA .)
To: Tunehead54
The only reason it isn’t a forgery is that Matisse’s signature isn’t on it.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:23:33 PM PST
by
usmcobra
(Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
To: Tunehead54
They look NOTHING alike!!! sarc/
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:23:47 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Beelzebubba
Yer gonna get Joe-the-Plumbered.....hell, now so will I just for posting in your direction.
Good work...
72
posted on
11/04/2009 4:24:04 PM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Obama is a DIC....... Ditherer-in-Chief)
To: ducks1944
I’ll bet condoms on the tree are banned, bad press you know.
73
posted on
11/04/2009 4:27:53 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(Conservatives, we are their worst nightmare)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:33:42 PM PST
by
Brown Deer
(4 Google execs are on Obama's staff - YouTube is owned by Google)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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... 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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posted on
11/04/2009 4:36:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: kristinn
first lady said that the painting made her butt look big because the large painting was smaller than her butt. /s
76
posted on
11/04/2009 4:40:32 PM PST
by
guitarplayer1953
(Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
To: kristinn
Thanks for posting the original. Funny, but I like it and don’t like the repainted one. The colors are better, the painting skill sharper/surer.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:41:02 PM PST
by
patriciaruth
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
To: kristinn
FR: On the leading edge of Art (fraudulent painting), Letters (RatherGate) and Science (Space Shuttle Columbia).
78
posted on
11/04/2009 4:47:22 PM PST
by
rabidralph
(http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/ http://www.sarahpac.com)
To: patriciaruth
Thanks for posting the original. Funny, but I like it and dont like the repainted one. The colors are better, the painting skill sharper/surer.
I agree, but bear in mind that the original is a 10-foot tall collage pf pasted paper squares, not a small painting.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:57:13 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Why not "interpret" your tax returns like the Supreme Court "interprets" the Constitution?)
To: Teflonic
That particular Matisse is representative of the art he produced at the end of his life. I’ve forgotten what physical condition forced him to go from painting to arranging pieces of colored paper.
My grandmother, who used to knit beautiful and intricate sweaters, was still knitting on oversized needles at the end of her life, several years after she had gone blind. I have her last knitting, still on those inch-thick needles, saved in a bag. It’s not up to the standard of her earlier work by a long shot, but it made her happy to keep doing it. I’m guessing Matisse felt the same way.
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posted on
11/04/2009 4:58:07 PM PST
by
nina0113
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