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| Some of Obama's portrait artist's other work reported to be a bit troubling |
| 2018-02-13 |
| [PJ] The official portraits of the Obamas were unveiled today to much buzz and criticism. The artist who painted Barack Obama's portrait is Kehinde Wiley, a well-known, far-left gay painter whose work is racially charged. Anyone with eyes can see Wiley uses race as his main subject. The New York Times pontificated endlessly about his edgy and important work highlighting injustice. "He redresses the absence of nonwhite faces in museum masterpieces, 'using the power of images to remedy the historical invisibility of black men and women,' as Eugenie Tsai, the curator of the Brooklyn Museum show, observes in the accompanying catalog," the Times wrote. Wiley's shtick appears to be taking famous paintings and recreating them with black people in order to represent blacks in Western masterpieces. (This, of course, begs the question of whether Wiley thinks white people are underrepresented in Asian art or in African art where very few white people are depicted.) His version of "Judith Beheading Holofernes" is raising eyebrows on social media. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Or at most the biblical Serpent in Americas Garden of Eden. |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-02-13 19:13 |
| #11 A Cheech and Chong 60s type phsycodelic portrait. A chumb gang hippy who became President. |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-02-13 19:06 |
| #10 re #8 - You know, Rantburg really needs Like/Haha/Wow buttons like Facebook. USN Ret - now that is funny. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-02-13 16:54 |
| #9 As I recall, the JFK and Bill Clinton portraits were also non-classic in style. The Bill Clinton pixelated face is a bit of a horror; the Obama is merely insipid and sentimental. And executed at a good high school student level, but that's a separate issue. The Obamas wanted artists about whom there is a buzz, particularly in the African-American community, and that's exactly what they got. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-13 16:16 |
| #8 First impressions of Obammy's pitcher: 1) Is that Clint Eastwood's chair he is siting on? 2) the floral background would be right at home as a Dorothy and Toto backdrop, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Regarding Moochelle's: Never saw a cleanshaven Wookie before. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2018-02-13 15:48 |
| #7 "One of these things is not like the other" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-02-13 15:15 |
| #6 Can spot the portrait that appears slightly out of place ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-13 13:55 |
| #5 #SPOD Ignoring for the moment, all the questions about "O's" origins, one has to wonder if "O's" election was rigged back in 2008 in light of all the rigging that went on with Hildo. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-13 13:45 |
| #4 An insolent man of Mongolia, Possessed by a cute melancholia, Would give us the finger, Then, grinning, would linger Till covered in P. quinquefolia. Sabo. Heh. Or Dubya. He's probably pretty good by now. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-13 13:33 |
| #3 They should have gotten Sabbo to do a portrait. His Ted Cruz is assume. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-13 12:55 |
| #2 Not impressed either. You get a better one from any street artist on Montmartre in 15 minutes |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-02-13 11:53 |
| #1 Both portraits look like cheap photoshopped kid stuff. I think the general shoddiness of the portraits is a perfect commentary on both of them. Twitter has had a field day with these "portraits" Will the National Portrait Gallery take them down after Zero is convicted of treason? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-13 11:10 |
