[libstripper]

Please look at the two unretouched portraits as depicted in this article. The picture shows both Obolas beside their portraits in proper, normal contrast that, by comparison with the paintings, shows both paintings to be horribly done, with each profoundly lacking in contrast.

Then take a look at CNN's reproduction of both paintings, shown here:

http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/obama-portrait-unveiling/index.html

Neither is shown beside the Obolas as the portraits were unveiled, a showing that would have revealed the horrible lack of contrast. Instead, each is given a free standing showing and appears to have the proper level of contrast, something that probably resulted from CNN electronically adding the contrast to make them look better.

[rktman]

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!

[Psalm 144]

LOL! Looks like a student did them with a photo projection.

Both sets are bad. The CNN gloss didn’t help the fundamental weaknesses very much.

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[roadcat]

How appropriate, on EWW.com (or close to it). Yuck.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Okay everybody, PRETEND you love these paintings like everyone in that room did. What a JOKE. Disgusting narcissists!

[Jeff Chandler]

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Where is the portrait of Reggie Love?

[Billthedrill]

100 years from now Americans will look at these and understand the shallowness, pretentiousness, and sheer ugliness of the 0bama administration embodied on canvas by Identity Artists. Fourth-grade art students will laugh.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

>>>Wiley and Sherald are the first two African-American artists to ever be commissioned to paint presidential portraits for the museum.<<<

And very likely the last . . .

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Krishana Davis ✔ @KrishanaDavis: "The softness and ethereal feeling of Obama’s portrait speaks volumes."

Oh, Fer Feck's Sake! These people are brainwashed morons.

[marstegreg]

Obama looks like the delicate flower that he is. However, Michelle does not look at all like Michelle (which is not a bad thing).

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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!

[Puppage]

One of Kehinde's other paintings.

[Big Red Badger]

Kalindy Wilder...

What Ever!

[heterosupremacist]

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

link from cnn article, if you dare...

[corlorde]

Looks nothing like Michelle Obama.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Good gawd! How awful is the wookie’s! Her friken hand is bigger than her face!?! And she ain’t frowning in the portrait— not natural at all.

[Squeako]

There is a gross tendency in the black community to hail anything done by a black person without any attempt to achieve excellence in that endeavor. A very poor painting showing limited skill is praised while that same painting by a white artist would be lampooned by a white art critic as crap. There is literally no critical evaluation and this trend encourages the bar to be constantly lowered.

[Yaelle]

Obama looks like he’s in a booth in Man’s Country, waiting.

[Yosemitest]

The portraits of the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF and his wife can't be "art" to LIbEralS.
There's NO Elephant Dung on them, and they're not in a jar of urine !