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Posted on 02/14/2018 8:08:14 AM PST by libstripper
I notice that the weirdest before Obama was Kennedy. Portayed as a blonde when he had dark hair, and looking down instead of at the viewer. I suppose that was a posthumous portrait though, done after everyone had decided to practically beatify him.
Nah, there is no sixth finger, that is just the palm of the hand bulging outward because the hand is pressing down on the leg.
Why would Obama choose an “African American” artist who maintains his studio in the People’s Republic of China? Where cheap Chinese “assistant” laborers actually crank out the artwork.
“I’m sensitive to it,” says Kehinde Wiley. “I don’t want you to know every aspect of where my hand starts and ends.”
The man staring back at us from the canvas might as well be saying the same, especially as the plot to undermine the candidacy and administration of his successor, Donald Trump, comes to light.
Well my left hand is nothing like that along the side, it could not have that bulge along the side, but I haven’t made any study of Barack Obama.... fortunately.
It doesn’t look like that on his other hand.
Obama’s New Portrait=The Emperor’s New Clothes
So Obama’s official portrait is a fraud produced by Chinese slave labor. How appropriate. The only originality is probably the sperm on his temple.
I’m a better painter and I failed High School art class.
“Well my left hand is nothing like that along the side...”
Press your hand up against a surface, at a certain angle, and the palm would certainly bulge out like that to the side. It has nowhere else to go.
If that hand isn’t pressing up against something in the same way, there is no reason to expect it would.
I do, however, suggest a minor touch-up.
Picture this...
...among the foliage, a...
...giant seed pod!
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Don't think of him as an artist. Think of him as an "art product manager."
the Obama’s choice of “painters” pretty much matches their choice of “musicians”, but that’s another story.
nonetheless, nothing is funnier than the MSM coverage:
‘A Game Changer.’ How a Painting of President Obama Broke the Rules - In Depth· TIME
It captures her charm & hotness, says Obama about wife’s striking portrait - GkMen
Obama’s new portrait of loneliness - Opinion-CNN
The Obamas’ portraitists bonded the everyday and the extraordinary - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Obamas’ Official Portraits Break New Ground With Their Boldness - Smithsonian
Michelle Obama’s Instagram Post About Her Portrait Is So Inspiring - Elite Daily
13 Feb: Guardian: Portrait of Obama: ‘This will not tell the future ages what made him special’
There’s a boardroom blandness to Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of the ex-president. But Amy Sherald’s painting of the former first lady, unveiled at the same time, is a haunting, billowing revelation
by Jonathan Jones
Kehinde Wiley’s keenly awaited portrait of the 44th president of the United States is a disappointment...
He deserved a closer look from Wiley. He demanded to be seen afresh, as the unique person he is. The artist has fitted Obama into a grid of stylistic jokes and art-history erudition, instead of capturing his essence...
Both these artists – who were chosen by the Obamas – are conscious of challenging expectations. Yet Wiley’s irony is much less subversive than Sherald’s emotional truth. Sherald’s painting is remarkable – a new birth for the portrait, even...
She looks vulnerable and exposed, a human being without pompous armour. The soft, poetic tones of Sherald’s painting are disarming and completely unexpected in a formal portrait...
What she has done with her promising material is to create a great American portrait in the tradition of Whistler and Warhol. Obama may no longer be president but at least he can say he’s married to a modern-day Mona Lisa.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/12/kehinde-wiley-portrait-barack-obama-amy-sherald-michelle
Actually, Boobamba's portrait fits him perfect. He as as traitorous and unAmerican phony President.
And choosing this portrait is another way he flips the bird on America and we stand for.
In 20 years, looking back on this odd portrait will prove to the unborn generation of Americans of his seditious legacy.
Even the portrayal of Obama's hands as larger than they are in real life shows Obama's intent to deceive. He can never be a full-fledged man like Trump. He's a weak Chauncey Gardener who stuttered every time he mentioned Trump's name.
Good point about future generations looking back at that childish schmuck through that hideous portrait.
I, too, often thought he was Chauncey Gardener.
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I love that meme.
LOL...that is GREAT!
Thank you, fair Duchess. We can say that Obama’s legacy is now fading into the garden, but in short time, his legacy will be played out in a very different setting.
“One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality” Crazy Horse
That’s a very nice tag line to think about. Is not our everyday Reality a kind of dream itself?
According to the Hindi tradition, life is a play and each of us wears many masks across our lifetimes.
And Alan Watts taught that the word “person” has its origins in the Greek word “persona” that was actually a mask the the actors wore in the Ampitheater in amplify their sound.
Thank you, I have always liked that quote. I believe he dreamed his reality, I’ve always imagined it was many buffalo, many horses and green grass, no old age.
That is not my reality but I do believe I will see my dream when I leave this world.
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