Obama's husband looks like a howler monkey.
Posted on 02/15/2018 6:59:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. was rather late in establishing a National Portrait Gallery - and in creating the conditions for commissioning official portraits of presidents and first ladies.
There is little doubt that the Obamas were the most stylish and sophisticated first couple since the Kennedys and, as powerful individuals in their respective roles, the Obamas elected to each choose a different painter, thus breaking the tradition of commissioning official portraits from one - always white and always male - artist.
But nothing is typical about the Obamas. They were the first African-American couple in the White House, and nothing is typical about their portraits. The Obamas selected artists of African descent, and each selected an artist of their same gender.
Amy Sherald portrayed Michelle Obama, making Sherald the first female artist of any race in the history of official portraits. If any official presidential portraits are "politically correct," it is there.
The portraits are by artists widely recognized in the art world - a far cry from the conventional painters favored by earlier presidents and their wives. Even the savvy Jacqueline Kennedy chose the competent, but unremarkable, society portrait painter Aaron Shikler, who also painted Nancy Reagan, and no art critic or art historian worth his or her salt would ever consider writing about those thoroughly unexceptional, if conventionally beautiful, portraits.
The portraits are decidedly unlike the staid official likenesses of their predecessors, George W. and Laura Bush — and indeed, unlike any others to hang in the National Portrait Gallery. They represent two powerful and important individuals against invented backdrops with little suggestion of place. They call out for us to reconsider Michelle and Barack Obama not as powerful figures, but as individuals in American society.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Boy, that first picture is one ugly black women - whatever was soft and feminine in her died at birth... Maybe that’s where the rage comes from - pretty white women. Ugly angry black women...
Obama's husband looks like a howler monkey.
Did Rick Brettell, the founding director of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at UT Dallas forget about Elizabeth Shoumatoff? She painted not only the portraits of president Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson but also the very well known "Unfinished" and final Portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Perhaps the most learned Mr. Brettell identifies Mrs. Shoumatoff as a man.
Looks like Bonehead’s wife is stealing the silverware or rolls??
Hey! Isn’t that “racisss”?
There seems to be a whole lot of rage with some of the very ugly black women.
How can howler monkeys be reacissssss?
The portraits, both of them, are a joke, and no amount of pseudo-erudite commentary by this Obama worshipper is going to keep people from seeing that the emperor and the empress have no clothes. One of them does have six fingers though.
You have a good point there!
RICK IS DELUSIONAL
wow, you’re right. It is highly unconventional compared to the others. But we can probably assume that he really doesn’t care.
The article explains the artist painted Moochelle’s black skin in shades of gray.
Interpretation: she painted her skin as ASHY.
AND jealousy...
Hopefully in a few years the Obama's will replace the 'portraits' with something more acceptable ... to history. And to themselves.
Rick, better practice asking “if you’d like fries with that.”
Those portraits are a joke, just like the 8 years they lived in our house.
This rick patell “critic” is such LIB moron. Surely paint thinner fumes have deteriorated his already malignant brain cells. I do, however, think the “portraits” are fraudulent as art... they reflect the nobama frauds perfectly. Losers all.
The islamic ring that Barry Soetoro has worn since before his “wedding” to his beard Moochelle, is also displayed for all Zero’s fellow terrorists to see.
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