Don't forget to check out that slideshow if you have a sec - speaks for itself.
OMG - the second one looks like a piece of carpeting. The rest could have been done by a child.
So they have time to choose art but no time to think about our soldiers plight?
So, when is FLOTUS going to do the TV tour through the WH?
Ugh - that slideshow - empty and tasteless.
Wasn't this the artwork found on the famous blue dress and in the sink off the Oral Office during klintoon's term??
I’m surprised. I would have expected self portraits.
I laughed when I saw this. I remember it from college art classes, as the ultimate example of "will they believe THIS is art?" art.
Homage to the Square. Absolutely amazing and though provoking piece of ... uh ... art.
Surely there must be a picture or two of Assata Shakur.
I adore Richard Diebenkorn but some of the contemporary stuff they chose looks like it is from the same school of taste that picks out Michelle’s wardrobe. A couple of those at the slideshow, in particular the Alma Thomas, makes my head hurt.
......the Obamas LACK OF artistic taste........"
Caitlin is the only one that remotely represents art. The rest are your surburban princess majors in art at ivy league for $80K a year kind of choices. Wow, how cheap things get when you let academics teach what is nothing more than a trade. There are inspired and talented artists and then there are the academically produced artist. With few exceptions, the later are hokey, predictable, wrapped up in some theory and unimaginative. Give me an artist that studied with artists he/she admired and you are on to something.
Here are examples of some of the work by (real) artists:
Portrait of Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, chief of the Blood tribe, by George Catlin. The article has to put in the usual slam about him being 'just a tourist'. Nonsense. He did promote his paintings in London and New York, but he had to feed his family same as everyone else. And he did a tremendous service in memorializing the Plains Indians as they were before 'civilization' got hold of them.
Winslow Homer, one of THE greatest American artists. BOTH his oils and his watercolors are truly magnificent, and he was tremendously sensitive to the difference.
William H. Johnson's stuff, however, is totally lame. Why couldn't they get something by a black American artist who could actually PAINT, like Henry Ossawa Turner?
"The Banjo Lesson"
"The Annunciation"
Although Bamma would never have a Christian religious painting in the White House . . . .
I've got a steak dinner that says they no more personally chose these paintings than they flew to the Moon.
Of Course, her all time favorite is one entitled "Lost Puppy."
Must be nice to be able to leisure around and look at US Art Collections books all day......
Well... none of this stuff is anything that I’d like to have in my house, but I’m not going to spend any energy worrying about O’s odd artistic taste.
The selection of the Morse Telegraph for the Oval Office is surprising, almost. It’s clearly a key invention that changed history and improved life, and it’s a thoroughly American invention to boot. It’s something that if it were me I might have had on my shortlist of things to display as well. Mighty surprising, that.
I would’ve expected something more like a momento from the civil rights struggle.
Let me guess. Elvis on velvet along with the long legged pimp mac on the street corner with his skanks.