Posted on 03/02/2015 6:34:20 PM PST by woofie
Nelson Shanks, who painted a portrait of former President Bill Clinton in 2006, revealed in an interview published Sunday that there's more to the image than meets the eye, including a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
"The reality is he's probably the most famous liar of all time," Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News. "He and his administration did some very good things, of course, but I could never get this Monica thing completely out of my mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting."
Shanks explained that a shadow covering the Oval Office mantel in the painting has a double meaning, including a nod to the blue dress Lewinsky wore during her affair with the president.
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artist draws painting of obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrv4PjgQFfE#t=91
I like it
The shadow looks like H! practicing riding her broom.
I’ve always wondered what exact brand and size of cigar Bill used on Monica?
Yeah, and if he curved his signature ‘bend’ into it just for laughs!
William Jefferson Clinton was a reprobate. He defiled my White house with a blow job from a star struck intern in exchange for a pizza. He is a sickening ,undisciplined piece of crap. Then he perjured in the face of a Federal Judge at deposition (sanctioned) and was impeached by the House and disbarred as a lawyer. He has no value and defiled our nation. He is a total buffoon. His wife is complicit an incompetent.
> “The reality is he’s probably the most famous liar of all time,” Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News
Yes but he has nothin’ on the Lyin’ King AKA The Taqiyya Lya
I saw the painting, and I see no Monica reference.
WHERE IS THE MONICA REFERENCE...?
Sorry, I don’t get it.
Looks like a prophecy.
Stop with the sugar coating crap and tell us how you really feel!
From the article;
“It actually literally represents a shadow from a blue dress that I had on a mannequin, that I had there while I was painting it, but not when he was there,” Shanks said. “It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him.”
William Jefferson Blythe "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946).
Changed his last name from Blythe to Clinton, (@ age 15, approx year of 1961) see below: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
Section Early life and career:
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.[1][2] His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.[3] His mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923–1994), traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after he was born. She left Bill in Hope with grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store.[2] At a time when the Southern United States was segregated racially, Bill's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races.[2] In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton, Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother.[2] The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950.
Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy (as he was known then) turned fifteen[4] that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.[2] Clinton says he remembers his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and half-brother, Roger Clinton, Jr., to the point where he intervened multiple times with the threat of violence to protect them.[2][5]
We don’t blame kids for acts of their parents.
PERIOD.
People may not know that Hope Arkansas was “sin city” in the south at that time ......My mother said they would100 miles out of their way to avoid going through Hope when we were little
BREAKING…. The Obama administration has just released the PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT that will hang in the White House after he's gone… Per the release: "The president is quite pleased and feels it captures the essence of his presidency, both the humanity of it and the results he worked and labored to achieve… Well done."
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