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Date: February 12th, 2018 10:41 AM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma "Let's just start by saying, 'wow,' " Michelle Obama said after her portrait was unveiled. "I am a little overwhelmed, to say the least."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/obama-portrait-unveiling/index.html https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV3DeOcX0AUGJYU.jpg:large |
Date: February 12th, 2018 10:42 AM Author: dun therapy kitchen For her painting, Michelle Obama chose Baltimore-based artist Amy Sherald. Sherald is another African-American artist known for her unique style, and her portraits also tend to underscore themes of social justice.
haha, whoops. whoa. |
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Date: May 6th, 2018 9:15 PM Author: galvanic lilac office toilet seat obama's portrait is fuckin awesome, not sure what kind of crack you're smoking choom gang (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35995127) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 10:45 AM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma Obama also has the world's largest hands. https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/963075124856524800 |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:54 AM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma Isn't Obama a WHITE SOX fan? Why is the background Wrigley? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383899) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:31 PM Author: Cocky slate abode such a "southside kid" was he:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX0PSoCTFas |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:13 PM Author: Kink-friendly water buffalo It’s a subtle dig at Trump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384081) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 10:46 AM Author: arousing stead WTF Michelle's looks like something a girl submitted for a Jr. High art contest and Barack's portrait looks mega old with abnormally large hands (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383246) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 10:46 AM Author: Talented abusive fanboi half-breed Oh, they're not that bad.
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:53 AM Author: Brass travel guidebook michelle's is objectively terrible and barack's is just kinda bizarre with big hands (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383890) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 10:46 AM Author: Submissive Nighttime Idea He Suggested lol that looks nothing like her (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383248) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:55 AM Author: bonkers stock car I’m still trying to figure out who the subject of the Michelle O portrait was because it damn sure wasn’t Michelle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383904) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:59 AM Author: concupiscible set Total shit artist. Look at her other work. Despite the fact that she exclusively paints people she can't paint a face. Notice how the first five paintings on her site have the same face:
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:03 PM Author: Turquoise violent heaven striped hyena "Notice how the first five paintings on her site have the same face"
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:11 PM Author: Black state This is so absurd. I can't believe this "artist" was chosen for anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384073) |
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Date: March 10th, 2018 9:05 PM Author: avocado hunting ground The nose is literally identical in all of them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35578560) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:51 AM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma https://twitter.com/JBurtonXP/status/963092672436211713 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383862) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:53 AM Author: Turquoise violent heaven striped hyena "Can't think of a more fitting way to memorialize the Obamas than to hire a couple portrait artists just for being black and then watch them botch the job horribly."
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:04 PM Author: transparent old irish cottage masturbator Those are the official White House portraits, not the ones for the portrait gallery.
Clinton's National Portrait Gallery painting has a shadow of the blue dress, but the artist only recently revealed what the shadow was meant to symbolize. Lulz.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-subtle-satire-of-a-bill-clinton-portrait/386558/ |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:12 PM Author: arousing stead Yeah, and the casual portraits of the POTUS in the portrait gallery should reflect something about him.
Reagan's casual portrait was meant to reflect him being from the West: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/52/14/7c521410c3f81259f12ad3e06f7472e9.jpg
Carter's "casual" portrait is still formal and in the Oval Office: https://mowryjournal.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/carter-jimmy-by-robert-clark-templeton.jpg
I don't know about Nixon's, but at least it was painted by Norman Rockwell:
What does Obama's say about him? |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:19 PM Author: rusted institution lol that's as bad as Michelle's. looks like Robert Redford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384665) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:32 PM Author: Yellow buck-toothed box office Was JFK’s painted after his assassination? Holy shit it’s sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384253) |
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Date: February 13th, 2018 9:19 AM Author: Bearded Goyim Casino JFK was always pretty tragic. That's why his death resonated so much through pop culture (lana del rey is still singing about him and MM, for instance). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35391708) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:22 PM Author: rusted institution here are W and Laura's; they look about as stupid
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/12/images/20081219-1_d-0337-1-515h.html |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:04 PM Author: Wonderful boistinker if look about as stupid means not even remotely close to as stupid, we all agree |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:36 PM Author: transparent old irish cottage masturbator That's the apples to apples comparison to the Obama portraits that were unveiled today, but neither the Bush or Obama portraits are an appropriate comparison to the pictures in this subthread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385361) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 5:03 PM Author: rusted institution that was what I was suggesting, assuming (stupidly) that other people understood that the standard is NPG, not WH (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386623) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 5:15 PM Author: transparent old irish cottage masturbator I was agreeing with you. Sorry if that wasn't clear. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386707) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 9:29 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma Made it on Tucker. https://twitter.com/Fiery_Floridian/status/963223626265890816 |
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Date: March 10th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: cyan mischievous deer antler university perfect cap on obamas legacy as first weirdo token nigger president. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35578403) |
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Date: March 10th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: cyan mischievous deer antler university just realized obamas portrait looks like a monkey in the jungle when paired with the regal portraits of white presidents thinking in their office. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35578414) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:57 AM Author: charismatic hateful business firm tank Is this seriously going to be hung in some prominent official location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383938) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 11:58 AM Author: charismatic hateful business firm tank Starting to understand that I never truly "got" the real Obama (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383954) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:08 PM Author: transparent old irish cottage masturbator No, they're going into the Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384036) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:01 PM Author: arousing stead If these were Trump and Melania's portraits, the media would be absolutely savaging them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383979) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:02 PM Author: charismatic hateful business firm tank I am looking forward to the medias efforts to praise this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35383986) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:15 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/963098309895294976 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384095) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:20 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/obamas-portraits-unveiled-for-americans-presidents-exhibition/2018/02/12/d9f3691a-1000-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html Always a good sign when you need 13 paragraphs to explain why art is good. |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:22 PM Author: Disgusting Flatulent Meetinghouse Crazy how he still revels in being a national joke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384163) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:04 PM Author: concupiscible set Its literally 1) Obama, drawn out of proportion, who was then pasted onto to 2) a chair, that had to be distorted to fit the POTUS, both of which were then pasted onto 3) a flat wall of ivy, but some of the leaves brought forward to give an illusion of "depth". It's surrealism by incompetence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384560) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:06 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma The chair legs are standing on the ivy so it's a wall and floor of ivy, somehow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384574) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:27 PM Author: concupiscible set "somehow" You can actually use artistic skill to show ivy transitioning from a vertical to horizontal plane but this useless nigger only had a vertical photo of ivy to photoshoop with. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384715) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: Wonderful boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385074) |
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Date: February 13th, 2018 9:18 AM Author: Adventurous national Oh what a diversity hire artist! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35391696) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:47 PM Author: Underhanded center You Guys are morons. In 100 years Obama’s portraits will be the most praised. This is the future (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384389) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:48 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384399) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:48 PM Author: domesticated hominid parlor lol do you just periodically emerge from a state of torpor or something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384400) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:55 PM Author: Underhanded center Kehinde wiley is an extremely popular artist and nobody cares about sticking to traditionally portraiture anymore, even for presidents portraits. You think anyone looks at these besides the Kennedy one anymore? Anyway the Obama’s don’t owe shit to any sort of tradition here. Embracing this is 100% the right move (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384464) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 12:57 PM Author: arousing stead Yes, all 43 other Presidents' portraits line up with the same portraiture that was suitable for heads of state for centuries, but Obama is just TOO IMPORTANT for that pedestrian bullshit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384494) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:16 PM Author: Underhanded center His does as well in its own way. Not every portrait was as dull as they’ve been the past 30 years. Look at teddy’s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384646) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:20 PM Author: Underhanded center Teddy’s is a John singer sargent and looks like it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384668) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:23 PM Author: domesticated hominid parlor The true Celebrity President. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384687) |
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Date: February 13th, 2018 9:18 AM Author: Bearded Goyim Casino showing the feet was a huge prole tell, even more so than attending Harvard imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35391702) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: Disgusting Flatulent Meetinghouse Cr no one cares about traditions!
*promotes tranny rights while shitting on nuclear families* *encourages lawless thugs to kill cops* *praises Islam while degrading christianity* .... *is routed in the general election*
(Libs) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 4:36 PM Author: elite pit What kind of church do you go to? just curious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386438) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 5:13 PM Author: Irradiated son of senegal spin, ratfucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386691) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:07 PM Author: hairraiser step-uncle's house kitty cat Try sitting like Obama is sitting, it hurts your back. LJL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384579) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:47 PM Author: chocolate crusty locale main people His face actually looks decent, but ROFL at the ivy backdrop. Should have just put him in front of the actual Wrigley field Ivy.
Hers, I mean everything but her face is OK for a "portrait", but not for THE portrait. |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:57 PM Author: out-of-control bat-shit-crazy depressive point Wilhely usually uses a studio full of Korean painters but this time I’ll bet he did it himself hence the ugly proportions and bad photoshop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35384994) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 1:59 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma https://babe.net/2018/02/12/has-michelle-obamas-portrait-painter-ever-met-or-even-seen-michelle-obama-before-34474 Who would've ever guessed that it would be BABE.NET that actually had integrity on the left and said the emperor had no clothes. |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: Yapping locus Michelle Obama is more than an undeniably beautiful and accomplished woman. She's our collective American mother and when she flourishes, we all do. Which is why I'm so angry on behalf of Mom and her new National Gallery portrait. It looks nothing like her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385038) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:08 PM Author: Wonderful boistinker unattractive and not particularly accomplished are considered more than? very confusing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385113) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 4:33 PM Author: Costumed tan mother She aint my fucking mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386414) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:07 PM Author: dashing den Michelle's doesn't seem that bad but it looks really washed out.
LJL @ everything about Barack's though. |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:21 PM Author: rusted institution the washout is a thing that artist does for people of color (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385221) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 2:25 PM Author: Canary turdskin dilemma https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/arts/design/obama-portrait.html?smid=tw-share (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35385261) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 4:00 PM Author: arousing stead "Mr. Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker."
Probably troubled because he's being devoured by vines |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 4:45 PM Author: exciting degenerate theater Lol. Michelle’s doesn’t look like her. Barak is sitting in a chair suspended on what appears to be a wall of ivy that is holding him and the chair to it via his feet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386496) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 5:07 PM Author: arousing stead Beautiful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3890639&forum_id=2#35386659) |
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Date: February 12th, 2018 4:53 PM Author: Crawly provocative theatre police squad https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/obamas-portraits-unveiled-for-americans-presidents-exhibition/2018/02/12/d9f3691a-1000-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.61a5bd437ea7
The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect and that’s why they’re great By Philip Kennicott February 12 at 11:15 AM Email the author
Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley, oil on canvas, 2018. (Kehinde Wiley)
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald, oil on linen, 2018. (Amy Sherald) The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled the official portraits of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, both painted by African American artists, and both striking additions to the museum’s “America’s Presidents” exhibition. The 44th president is seen sitting on a wooden armchair that seems to be floating amid a scrim of dense foliage and flowers in an image by Kehinde Wiley. The first lady, painted against a robin’s egg blue background, rests her chin on one hand and stares at the viewer with a curious mix of confidence and vulnerability in a canvas by Amy Sherald.
The artists, chosen by the Obamas, have combined traditional representation with elements that underscore the complexity of their subjects, and the historic fact of their political rise. And both painters have managed to create compelling likenesses without sacrificing key aspects of their signature styles. The Obamas took a significant chance on both artists and were rewarded with powerful images that will shake up the expectations and assumptions of visitors to the traditionally button-down presidential galleries.
[‘Pretty sharp,’ says Obama of his presidential portrait]
Wiley, an established artist whose work is held by prominent museums worldwide, has produced a characteristically flat, almost polished surface, with intensely rich colors and a busy, sumptuous background that recalls his interest in historical portraiture.
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The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. (Reuters)
Sherald, who won the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever prize in 2016, has painted Michelle Obama’s face in the gray tones of an old black-and-white photograph, set against a preternaturally bright background, a technique she has used to introduce a heightened sense of the surreal in many of her works.
But both artists also have tempered aspects of their usual styles to create works that emphasize the dignity of the subject over the irony of the artist. Wiley, who has made portraits of LL Cool J, Michael Jackson and Notorious B.I.G., often skewers the pomp and grandiloquence of historical portraiture, painting his subjects in poses familiar from classic works by Napoleon’s propagandist, Jacque-Louis David, or Tiepolo or Peter Paul Rubens (Wiley depicted Jackson on horseback, wearing the armor of a Habsburg king, crowned by angelic flying figures). Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well.
Wiley’s portrait of the former president doesn’t go there. Indeed, the pose of Obama, who is seen in a dark suit, with an open-collar shirt, sitting with his arms crossed and resting on his knees, recalls Robert Anderson’s official 2008 portrait of George W. Bush, who is rendered in a similar, casual pose. Nor does Sherald, who often depicts her subjects with some curiously evocative object (a bunch of balloons or a model ship) that creates a dreamlike atmosphere, emphasize the phantasmagorical in her portrait of Michelle Obama.
But both artists have stressed the importance of creating portraiture of African Americans that will reconfigure the canon and the museum in more inclusive ways. Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, remembers seeing Sherald engage with young African American girls at a gallery talk. “She bent down and looked at them and said, ‘I painted this for you so that when you go to a museum you will see someone who looks like you on the wall.’ ” Wiley, too, has focused throughout his career on inserting black faces and figures into the traditional context of elite, aristocratic portraiture, although with ambiguous results: It is never clear whether the goal is to remedy the omission, or destabilize the tradition.
The two portraits render their subjects life-size, which underscores their historical importance and accomplishments. Although the artists worked independently of each other, and their works aren’t meant to be seen side by side (they will reside in different galleries when they go on view), they make a curious pairing. Both capture elements that their subjects carefully curated during their public life as president and first lady. A swelling vein on the left side of the president’s face, and the intensity of his gaze, suggest the “doesn’t suffer fools gladly” impatience that occasionally flashed from him, a marked contrast with the smiling and laughing photographic portraits by Chuck Close that have until now stood in for the official portrait in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition.
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Wiley has included flowers in the background (another nod to historical portraiture) to reference elements of the president’s personal history, including jasmine for Hawaii, African blue lilies for his father’s Kenyan heritage, and chrysanthemums, which are the official flower of Chicago. Curiously, the president’s left foot is poised just over a bunch of African blue lilies, as though he’s about to crush them.
The scene during the Obamas’ portrait unveiling View Photos Artists revealed the former president and former first lady’s portraits at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Sherald has depicted Michelle Obama in a dress by Michelle Smith’s Milly label, tasteful but not extravagant department-store fashion that recalls the first lady’s mix of couture and comfortable pragmatism. Sherald was attracted by the large, geometric patterns of the fabric, which recalls the style of Mondrian. But it is the bulk of the dress that makes a statement, all but engulfing the body, with little more than the face, arms and hands (with light violet-colored nail polish) exposed. The dress forms a pyramid, with the face atop, in a way that suggests a protective carapace, hiding from view the first lady’s body and some of her femininity, which were targets of racist attack during her tenure in the East Wing.
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Sign up The contrast of the artists’ renderings of the backgrounds is also compelling. The first lady inhabits a world of calm, clarity and Wedgwood-hued enlightenment, while the president is seen untethered against a screen of leaves and flowers, with occasional glimpses into an unknown, dark space beyond. So one of them seems grounded while the other is up for grabs, while some of the femininity hidden within the folds of the first lady’s dress has magically reappeared in the refulgent floral world of the president’s portrait.
It’s easy to forget the historical importance of Monday’s unveiling. Intellectually, we all know that the White House was a white man’s exclusive preserve until 2008. But a stroll through the National Portrait Gallery emphasizes that fact in a visual and emotional way that recalls not just the racism built into this country’s founding document, but the racism that has shaped the history of art and portraiture since the Renaissance.
The Obamas’ potential to change the tone and political culture of this country was blunted by the persistence of that racism before and during their time at the country’s political apex. Now that they have left office, now that their fundamental decency is in high relief by contrast with the new political order, memory is refreshed. They look a bit older than the two people who carried so much collective fantasy of a different America with them to Washington nine years ago. That fantasy was premature and unrealistic, and it is only now clear how powerfully it animated the meanest impulses of those who reject it. But these portraits will remind future generations how much wish fulfillment was embodied in the Obamas, and how gracefully they bore that burden.
Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well. |
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