Posted on 02/13/2018 3:12:03 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Sean Hannity and other right-wing conservatives are calling out President Barack Obama‘s presidential portrait, accusing the painting of having hidden perversion.
In a blog post published on Tuesday and subsequently deleted, the Fox News anchor’s staff reports that “industry insiders” believe Kehinde Wiley secretly placed concealed images of sperm throughout his painting.
“Controversy surrounding Kehinde Wiley’s wildly non-traditional portrait of the Commander-in-Chief broke out within minutes of its unveiling; with industry insiders claiming the artist secretly inserted his trademark technique -concealing images of sperm within his paintings,” the post reads.
Hannity’s blog post also brings up comments Wiley made in 2012 about a provocative art piece he painted of a Black woman beheading a white woman. “It’s sort of a play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing,” he told New York Magazine.
OBAMA PORTRAITS TARGET OF RACISM
The attacks on Obama’s portrait have been ongoing since going public. While most of America was captivated by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama‘s recently unveiled presidential portraits at the National Gallery, some right-wing and racist online users have used it as an opportunity to spread hate.
You don’t have to search far before coming across racist and misogynistic attacks aimed at the Obamas on Twitter, with some comparing the political couple to monkey (no surprise there), among other racist undertones.
In one photoshopped version of Barack Obama’s portrait, a user claims to have “fixed” it by portraying the former president behind bars. Another manipulated Michelle Obama’s face in not so flattering ways. Others are so grotesque it’s almost disbelieving.
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It’s perfectly ‘important’. The state of the arts is one of the signs of the state of our culture.
Let’s laugh at the Marxo-Muslim homo freak with ejaculate on his face. It’s a riot!!
[I would think somebody has the authority to reject these two monstrosities.]
WE THE PEOPLE reject and demand no rendering from this racist, jihadist artist grace the wall of the WHITE HOUSE.
“I just couldn’t figure out why such a talented artist would put a President’s figure in the silly setting that he did.”
He looks like he’s on, ‘The Throne.’ All he needs is a newspaper or magazine in his hand!
Ridiculous!
The work he does with photoshop and Chinese painters is great. /sarc
The problem is that younger artists are all theory and provocation.
Years ago Tom Wolfe wrote a book attacking modern art for being too theoretical, The Painted Word.
That was something of a cheap shot against the painters of his day, who at least had theories about art.
Today, the theories are about race, gender, and sexual preference and the painters don't just paint pictures anymore.
Politicians can reject their official portraits. LBJ did. Churchill had his burned.
As I said earlier, those, ‘portraits’ were one big F.U. to The American People.
They think they’re SO special! *SPIT*
course it was the artists designer collection to begin with.....
nothing else fits at all..
...a talented artist would put a President’s figure in the silly setting that he did...
Talented artist? Huh? An extra finger on Zer0’s left hand?
A disturbing thingy on his left temple. Sitting in a Briar patch? Done by an “artist”who is famous for paintings with black women holding white womens’ decapitated heads. The only “thing” missing is Moochelles man bulge.
This is one of the strangest displays ever put forth by the Democrat party. They must have been.painted in San Francisco.
The artist does have talent as a painter of portraits; he’s just got a weird internal ‘agenda’ that appears to take precedence over his talent, and over good taste.
Your comment about the ‘Democrat Party’ makes me wonder who actually decides the artists for these official portraits; and someone else has told us that some heads of state have rejected theirs...
I said it twice yesterday.
If you look at the portraits and had to guess which one had a white parent, you’d pick Mooch.
I actually kind of like that dress - for beach vacation wear.
Previous First Ladies have seemed to choose something more classic, that will look more or less timeless and LAST over time.
British writer Oliver Herford wrote:
I always like to see them; they make such a nice couple.
Because he is always so ladylike.
And she is always such a perfect gentleman.
If Picasso blew his nose on a piece of paper,
they’d say, “Look—It’s a masterepiece.”
That was something of a cheap shot against the painters of his day,
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WRONG.
Tom Wolfe was writing about the critics who controlled the art world.
You have never read his book.
While most of America was captivated by former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama‘s recently unveiled presidential portraits
I suspect “most of America” was going WTF???
...or trying to suppress their gag reflex.
LOL!
Leave it to the Brits. Their level of wit is something that we didn’t preserve and carry on.
Hmm ... an attack on Greenberg, Rosenberg, and Steinberg?
If I remembered the book that way, I wouldn't even have brought it up.
You have never read his book.
The book came out forty years ago.
Be grateful somebody remembered it at all.
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