Only the shadow knows ....
Posted on 03/02/2015 11:45:55 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
Over the weekend, the Philadelphia Inquirer published an interview with a renowned local artist named Nelson Shanks, whose portfolio includes the official painting of Bill Clinton hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. (Sidenote: during my time as a speechwriter for George W. Bush, I learned that 43 loved to open any set of remarks where he was having his portrait unveiled with “Welcome to my hanging.” For some reason, I always found that endearing). Anyway, Shanks, who we can only presume has figured out that publicly slighting a Democratic president is basically the royal road to a Fox News contributor gig and a possible presidential candidacy (looking at you, Ben Carson), let slip that there’s an easter egg for Clinton-haters right there in the Smithsonian:
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.
Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t the weirdest part of this that no one in the Oval Office antechamber thought it was strange that the artist had a mannequin with a blue dress on it? Then again, this was the Clinton White House. You probably could’ve brought in the Rubber Man suit from American Horror Story and not had anyone bat an eyelid. Apparently, the inside joke didn’t go down too well. Shanks continued:
And so the Clintons hate the portrait. They want it removed ...
(Excerpt) Read more at ricochet.com ...
Only the shadow knows ....
Fun from Ricochet ...
Notice his fingers are in same position as if holding cigar.
That’s gonna stick in his craw ‘til the day he dies! Hahas!
Perfect! LOL
Thank you.
Id send a copy to bill... but Id prefer to live out my life...
That shadow could have just as easily been said to be Bill Clinton’s shadow as a reaction to floorlighting. How would we ever know that was a shadow of any dress, let alone ‘The Blue Dress”. That said, speaking as someone who enjoys art, if I ever got a commission to paint a presidential portrait, there is no way in hell that I would use that as a vehicle for my political expression. At very least, I would not go around bragging about it years after the event. If I did not want to paint a proper portrait I should refuse the commission.
BILL CLINTON TROLL.
There fixed title.
But in this case neither was the client proffesional. I would not have taken the job cause I figured knowing these two shitz you wouldn’t get paid.
What is that hanging from his fly?
When Clinton is in the afterworld (???). And no one remembers his charisma and attractiveness to women, the only thing that will be talked about is the blue dress and both clintons’ lawlessness. And how they got away with it. Oh.. And the shady media.
If I were that artist I would go into hiding. We all know about Arkencide.
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