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Obama portraits make history with compelling works from significant painters
Dallas News ^ | February 15, 2018 | by Rick Brettell, Art Critic

Posted on 02/15/2018 6:59:45 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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41 posted on 02/15/2018 7:17:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is this "guy" trying to convince himself or others that those portraits are other than garbage?

Hope they keep them on display in the gallery for posterity.

42 posted on 02/15/2018 7:18:03 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: TruthWillWin
You omitted “barf alert” in the title?

Can we as a nation please stop giving this "DO NOTHING LEGAL, BUT SHRED THE US CONSTITUTION", #44 a headline every single day? Where is the stage manager with the hook?




43 posted on 02/15/2018 7:18:58 AM PST by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: Tench_Coxe

He probably thinks Jackson Pollock paintings are “art”, too.


44 posted on 02/15/2018 7:19:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sed contra

Even dressed "down", and playing with cats, they were classier than Barry Benghazi and the Mooch.

45 posted on 02/15/2018 7:19:52 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BenLurkin

My vote is for “Barack in the Weeds.”


46 posted on 02/15/2018 7:22:39 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> The U.S. was rather late in establishing a National Portrait Gallery... <

That never should have established in the first place. US presidents are not supposed to be venerated as if they were kings.


47 posted on 02/15/2018 7:22:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Best comment from the article:

Trib 1 hour ago

why does Obama have an extra finger on his left hand and a sperm on his left fore head? I assume the artist is trying to tell us that Obama is in some kind of fantasy land. Feel sorry for her being that the dress seems to be the focus point of the picture. Her pose does not match her normal style. Gives her a bored look. Give the artists a D+ in art. Would have giving a F except the chair came out well.


48 posted on 02/15/2018 7:24:37 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Leaning Right

And their pictures don’t belong on our coins.

Bring back Liberty on the obverse.


49 posted on 02/15/2018 7:25:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: robroys woman
> They are pedestrian art. The only thing missing is the black velvet. <

This was my submission for Obama's official portrait. Funny that I never heard back from them.


50 posted on 02/15/2018 7:26:25 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sorry, but clearly TALENT and ABILITY were not nearly as important to the artist selection process, as was PC Check Boxing...

These portraits will be mocked for centuries, and deservingly so.


51 posted on 02/15/2018 7:27:28 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“invented backdrops with little suggestion of place”

Har! How appropriate for squatting grifters riding the affirmative action train, with no actual personal accomplishments, who stay in other people’s mansions and lounge on other people’s yachts. The lazy, self-absorbed rich liberal left treats them like royalty only to appease white guilt syndrome.


52 posted on 02/15/2018 7:27:29 AM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Leaning Right

Good one! :-D


53 posted on 02/15/2018 7:29:09 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Use a throwaway email address and sign up to comment on this story...here's my comment:

Let's just admit it. The paintings are ridiculous and juvenile. Leftist fawning over them are like people fawning over the emperor's invisible clothes. Most people look at these silly things and wonder what in the hell were they thinking? These paintings will be remembered all right...the same way that you remember a scary clown

54 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:01 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: TruthWillWin

A barf alert wasn’t really needed. The title alone gave it away.


55 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:02 AM PST by Jvette
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To: TruthWillWin

A barf alert wasn’t really needed. The title alone gave it away.


56 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:04 AM PST by Jvette
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To: robroys woman

Correct. This is high school art class level stuff. Not bad for a talented kid but also not worthy of national respect as quality art.
Portraiture should NEVER draw attention to the artist. These are, true to form, ideological statements by the anti America cabal. In time they will be rejected by the curator in favor of something respectable.
On the other hand, portraying these clowns as, well, clowns, is not at all inappropriate.


57 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:07 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: Leaning Right

Is your painting of Michelle the one on the wall on the stairway of Biff’s penthouse in the “alternate present”?

Good work, dude! :-P


58 posted on 02/15/2018 7:30:20 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is on par with the Wookie fashion icon nonsense.


59 posted on 02/15/2018 7:31:33 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Louis Foxwell

None of that matters...... the portrait was painted by a black idealogue


60 posted on 02/15/2018 7:32:48 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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