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Twitter users noticed something about Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama
washington examiner ^ | February 12, 2018

Posted on 02/12/2018 4:32:44 PM PST by SMGFan

Twitter users noted on Monday morning that Amy Sherald's portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama resembled someone else, not its muse.

The former first lady's painting was done by Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist who won the Gallery's 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

"As you may have guessed, I don't think there's anybody in my family who's had a portrait done, let alone a portrait that will hang in the National Gallery," Obama told attendees.

"I am a little overwhelmed, to say the least," she added. "I am humbled. I am honored. I'm proud, but most of all, I am so incredibly grateful to all of the people who came before me in this journey — the folks who built the foundation on which I stand."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amysherald; blackkk; killwhitey; michelleportrait; obamanation; selfcongratulation
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A street artist's Caricature could have looked more like her. What a joke. And Barack is sitting in front of plants.
1 posted on 02/12/2018 4:32:44 PM PST by SMGFan
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They do look more like her https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=caricature+of+michelle+obama&FORM=HDRSC2


2 posted on 02/12/2018 4:34:08 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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I think it represents Michelle Obama just fine.

Heh.


3 posted on 02/12/2018 4:35:18 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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It looks more like Serena Williams. And Barack is sitting in front of the Vines in Wrigley, I think.


4 posted on 02/12/2018 4:36:25 PM PST by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: SMGFan

Well, I said this on the other thread, but if someone had to choose which of the subjects of these two portraits had a white parent, they would choose Mooch. The artist de-Africanized her features.


5 posted on 02/12/2018 4:36:30 PM PST by Yaelle
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Looks like Scarlett ? and frankly I don’t give a


6 posted on 02/12/2018 4:37:23 PM PST by butlerweave
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She looks like a Peanuts character. The painter thought she did pretty good. She did it from memory.


7 posted on 02/12/2018 4:37:31 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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Well, there is a slight scowl starting and she’s wearing a white chick appropriated synthetic wig.

The Kenyan is a head scratcher. Literally. As others have said, it looks like he’s in the middle of poison ivy.


8 posted on 02/12/2018 4:38:07 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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I would be angry if I was Michelle. That portraits looks nothing like her and it is embarrassing that likeness will be hanging there forever.


9 posted on 02/12/2018 4:38:08 PM PST by tinamina
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To: Yaelle

And de-emphasized the perpetual sneer.


10 posted on 02/12/2018 4:39:27 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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She has the arms of an NBA seven-footer! They look like Caribbean street art!


11 posted on 02/12/2018 4:39:28 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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I would be angry if I was Michelle.

She's always angry.

12 posted on 02/12/2018 4:40:05 PM PST by bkopto
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To: MeganC

I am in agreement with you Sherald was able to portray the resting b+tch face of MO!


13 posted on 02/12/2018 4:40:59 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (TRUMP 2016// Gran Torino- get off my lawn)
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To: Defiant

Outfielders are going to have trouble with the new obstacle at Wrigley Field this season. [image]

https://twitter.com/dhm/status/963080430013636614


14 posted on 02/12/2018 4:41:42 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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It is less than 12 hours since these have been unveiled and they are not aging well at all. Whatever Mr and Mrs zero were thinking, it has fully backfired.


15 posted on 02/12/2018 4:42:22 PM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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Apparently, she’s whiter than her husband.


16 posted on 02/12/2018 4:43:01 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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Looks more like Karl Malone in drag


17 posted on 02/12/2018 4:43:12 PM PST by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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18 posted on 02/12/2018 4:45:25 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: MeganC

Mrs FD is ZERO political.

I just showed her the portrait and asked her who it was.

Not kidding — she said “hillary clinton.”

I am still laughing (on the inside).


19 posted on 02/12/2018 4:45:35 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo took 8 years to try to destroy us. Trump took 1 to rebuild us. MAGA!!)
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Both of these are not portraits in any sense of the classical word and that’s OK because whatever has been captured by these two “ artists” is the truthincluding the soul and talent of each of the artists.

In my book? I’d call it “ outsider” art.


20 posted on 02/12/2018 4:45:53 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (TRUMP 2016// Gran Torino- get off my lawn)
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