Posted on 03/02/2015 8:55:18 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
RENOWNED Bucks County portrait artist Nelson Shanks has painted everyone from Princess Diana to President Bill Clinton and from Pope John Paul II to Marisa Tomei. He and his wife, Leona, are the founders of Studio Incamminati, an art school on 12th Street near Callowhill.
On a recent Friday, as the north light of a chilly afternoon flooded his Andalusia studio, Shanks, 77, chain smoked cigarettes and drank Diet Cokes while painting Gabrielle, a beautiful young belly dancer, on a 7-by-5-foot canvas.
Following his 7-hour session with Gabrielle, Shanks spoke with Stephanie Farr about a hidden secret in his portrait of President Clinton and his friendship with Princess Di, and shared some deep thoughts on celebrity and art.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
OMG....is slick flashing a gang sign
We are luck a guy with Clinton’s political skill just wanted to get sucked.
If you put Clinton’s political skills together with 0bama’s desire for a Caliphate subjugating America, we’d be in real trouble.
That’s a pretty significant shadow. Would have been nice if the portrait included a globe and the shadow covered it - his “legacy” endangered the entire world.
If you look at the left-hand side of it there's a mantle in the Oval Office and I put a shadow coming into the painting and it does two things. It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there. It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him. And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They're putting a lot of pressure on them.
ROTFL
Great post...
From Link:
Q: Who did you find was the hardest to capture?
Clinton was hard. I’ll tell you why. The reality is he’s probably the most famous liar of all time. He and his administration did some very good things, of course, but I could never get this Monica thing completely out of my mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting.
If you look at the left-hand side of it there’s a mantle in the Oval Office and I put a shadow coming into the painting and it does two things. It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there. It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him.
And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They’re putting a lot of pressure on them. [Reached by phone Thursday, a spokeswoman from the National Portrait Gallery denied that.]
He looks kinda like Ted Koppel in this painting.
Anybody know what actually happened to Monica’s blue dress?
I’m visiting the Clinton Library in Little Rock next month but I doubt I’ll find it there.
Now DAT’S funny right there...
I think that I read that they gave it back to Monica.
Now THAT’S funny.
Thanks
Someday that will auction for serious bucks I’d think.
Slick Willy’s left arm looks very strange in that portrait.
Maybe he has the blue dress stuffed up his sleeve.
The artist biggest compliment was from Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Though it is not important, I wonder what his political leaning is.
If I remember, wasn’t it found that the DEMS always had extremely large portraits painted of themselves while the Republicans had more modest paintings?
Clinton was hard.
so i've heard...
“Anybody know what actually happened to Monica’s blue dress?”
Smithsonian ?
Evidence is usually returned to the owner once the case closes. She could retire on the sale of that dress. Compensation for his and its ruining her life forever.
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