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Barack and Michelle Obama's portraits unveiled (Trunc.)
Entertainment News ^ | Feb. 12, 2018 | Chancellor Agard

Posted on 02/12/2018 11:11:36 AM PST by libstripper

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Barack and Michelle Obama's portraits unveiled at Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

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Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on Monday morning.

The former president’s portrait was painted by artist Kehinde Wiley, and the former First Lady chose Baltimore artist Amy Sherald for hers. Wiley and Sherald are the first two African-American artists to ever be commissioned to paint presidential portraits for the museum.

(Excerpt) Read more at ew.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; amysherald; cnn; fakenews; kehindewiley; michelleportrait; natlportraitgallery; obamaportrait; obamas; portraits
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To: dead

Where did the original on the come from? I KNOW that painting — one dog facing east, the other facing west. Something tells me that was from a Coen Brothers movie.


21 posted on 02/12/2018 11:22:55 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: libstripper
Brittany Packnett ✔ @MsPackyetti: "Can we talk about how stunningly powerful it is to see a black man in a garden the way Kehinde Wiley painted Barack 0bama?! It dismantles so much and creates new visions of masculinity that black men rarely have the public permission to explore."

OMFG!

22 posted on 02/12/2018 11:23:50 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Okay everybody, PRETEND you love these paintings like everyone in that room did. What a JOKE. Disgusting narcissists!

It looks like 'paint by numbers' therapy for someone in a 12 step program .

23 posted on 02/12/2018 11:23:53 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: joethedrummer; dead

“Ya got one dog lookin one way an’ da udda one lookin’ da udda way...”

That’s it! Goodfellas.


24 posted on 02/12/2018 11:24:15 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: butlerweave

In circumspect, he is just another thin leaf, ready to fall.


25 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:01 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: dead

Heh-heh-heh. :)


26 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:01 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: rktman

In looking at both portraits, I thought “man-spreading” is currently a cultural taboo...especially for Michael/Michelle. Perhaps the “wide stance” is code for his days in Chicago at the “Man’s Country” bath house.


27 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:01 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: libstripper

One of Kehinde's other paintings.

28 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:11 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Haha. Somebody post the painting of Tony Soprano dressed up like Napolean with the horse.

That would be funny. Especially since I talked about it first.

29 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:14 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: libstripper

Kalindy Wilder...

What Ever!


30 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:32 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Plus 1.


31 posted on 02/12/2018 11:25:37 AM PST by rhubarbk (Winning, Winning, Winning . . . MAGA it's a beautiful thing!!!)
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To: Puppage

*GASP*


32 posted on 02/12/2018 11:27:09 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A garden? I thought he was in the cotton patch.


33 posted on 02/12/2018 11:27:39 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: dead

AWESOME!!


34 posted on 02/12/2018 11:29:31 AM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: bagster
Follow up comment:

Those have to be two of the most shittiest paintings I've ever seen. Especially Mooch's.

But at least they were painted by black people, and that's what's important, right?

I've just never seen affirmative action paintings before, I guess. I don't get out much.

35 posted on 02/12/2018 11:30:45 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Huh?! What the heck is that Brittany person on about? Total gibberish masquerading as profound commentary.


36 posted on 02/12/2018 11:31:13 AM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: libstripper

http://www.cnn.com/style/article/barack-michelle-obama-official-portraits-unveiled/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlarge

link from cnn article, if you dare...


37 posted on 02/12/2018 11:32:33 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

It was from Goodfellas. Joe Pesci’s mom painted it.


38 posted on 02/12/2018 11:32:59 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Puppage

Charming. /s


39 posted on 02/12/2018 11:33:43 AM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: libstripper

Looks nothing like Michelle Obama.


40 posted on 02/12/2018 11:34:21 AM PST by corlorde
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