Too bad she couldn't have gone with her 1st choice.
Posted on 03/25/2015 11:13:45 AM PDT by drewh
Visitors to the White House on Tuesday saw a side of the mansion that had previously been hidden from public view. The Old Family Dining Room, once a private space for first family meals, has been refurbished by Michelle Obama in her first major attempt to leave her mark on the interior of the historic house.
The dining room, used in recent decades as a staging area for State Dining Room events, has been thoroughly modernized. The works added to the room are bold, including a custom-made rug based on a 1950 weaving by Anni Albers. Most of the artists featured in the room lived in the last century, including Alma Thomas, a force in the Washington Color School and the first African-American woman to be included in the White House permanent collection.
Thomas’s piece, “Resurrection,” is reflective of her expressionist style, evoking a burst of color. The White House Historical Association acquired it at auction last year for $290,000. The association, founded Jacqueline Kennedy, also paid for the repainting of the walls, which are now a cool gray — a major shift from the golden yellow that Kennedy selected.
The room is reflective of the Obamas’ tastes, which favor abstract artists. Two paintings by the 20th century modernist Josef Albers — husband of Anni, whose work inspired the rug — are featured across from a large mirror acquired during a 1902 restoration of the White House by the Roosevelt administration.
Obama unveiled the new room Tuesday by surprising visitors on public tours of the White House and encouraging them to look in on the refurbished space.
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So now we have the only up side of Hillary getting elected .... she might steal this crap when she leaves.
The drapes are nice.
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Royal Purple?????
“thug rug”
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LOL!
That looks like the Spaghetti Factory on Laclede’s Landing
Why was my first thought the movie “The In-Laws”?
Hope it won’t be gold or red colored fabric with clear vinyl slip covers.
The gayest administration in American history and they couldn’t have come up with a decent interior decorator?
WOW! Looks like a Goodwill store.
I’m surprised moochelle hasn’t replaced the wood floor with linoleum.
Those paintings and rug DO NOT belong in that room.
That rug will give some folks a seizure
Too bad she couldn't have gone with her 1st choice.
What got spilled on the rug?
LOL!...............
I’m surprised she didn’t bring in some hideous African tribal art.
I got to have dinner with Billy Dee Williams and Mort Sahl when they were backing Al Haig in 1987. Nice guys.
I guess they play darts after dinner.
That picture links like something a slow, short bus kid made with spirograph.
Isn’t there something in the communist manifesto about promoting ugly art?
Ah... here it is:
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
Well done, Mooch, well done.
Ha, I thought that was carnival spin art.
ROFL.
That “Mickey Blue Eyes” painting would have been an improvement!
Loved that movie.
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