Does this look like Michelle Obama

[Common]

http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Michelle-Obama-Claps-Portrait-Unveiling-768x621.jpg

The audience didnt think so either, to be honest she looks more like a white woman in that portrait.


Michelle Obama Unveiled Her Official Portrait – The Audience Reaction Says It All
An official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Monday morning.

The painting was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who is known (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/obama-portrait-unveiling/index.html) for her social justice painting style.
“Let’s just start by saying, ‘Wow,’ again. Let me just take a minute. It’s amazing. Wow,” Obama said after the portrait was unveiled. The moment was met with a gasp and applause.
All presidents and first ladies have their portraits done and hung in the Portrait Gallery.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/12/michelle-obama-official-portrait-reaction/

[silvereyes]

I think it is lovely....like her. :)

[Peter1469]

It is a waste of money.

[silvereyes]

It is a waste of money.

It is a tradition.

[Common]

I think it is lovely....like her. :)
I did not post this to insult her, that portrait looks nothing like her, she looks more like a white woman.

[silvereyes]

I did not post this to insult her, that portrait looks nothing like her, she looks more like a white woman.

I know that you didnt. Youre a much higher caliber of a, first and foremost, gentleman and a better patriot than to stoop to the nasty, low-brow hate crap that MANY others have enjoyed the last 9 years.

[Peter1469]

It is a tradition.
An expensive one.

[silvereyes]

An expensive one.

No doubt.

[Kacper]

No, it does not. In addition, sometime in the future people are going to look back at that dress in the painting and think the poor woman had to make her clothes from quilts.

[Common]

His portrait is perfect but hers does not look like her at all

[Adelaide]

Better pictures of the portrait show some resemblence but... not a great portrait. I get the shades of grey/black/white and colour thing, but the actual face is not quite right. But it's art - doesn't get much more subjective. Maybe it is related to whatever "style" of art it is.

[Grokmaster]

Not a good likeness, at all. Looks chintzy, too....no comparison to other official Presidential portraits, by a long shot...

[texan]

http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Michelle-Obama-Claps-Portrait-Unveiling-768x621.jpg

The audience didnt think so either, to be honest she looks more like a white woman in that portrait.


Michelle Obama Unveiled Her Official Portrait – The Audience Reaction Says It All


An official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama was unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Monday morning.

The painting was done by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald, who is known (https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/obama-portrait-unveiling/index.html) for her social justice painting style.
“Let’s just start by saying, ‘Wow,’ again. Let me just take a minute. It’s amazing. Wow,” Obama said after the portrait was unveiled. The moment was met with a gasp and applause.
All presidents and first ladies have their portraits done and hung in the Portrait Gallery.


http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/12/michelle-obama-official-portrait-reaction/

The one on the left does.

[Common]

Better pictures of the portrait show some resemblence but... not a great portrait. I get the shades of grey/black/white and colour thing, but the actual face is not quite right. But it's art - doesn't get much more subjective. Maybe it is related to whatever "style" of art it is.

uhh its not creative art, its a portrait addie its supposed to look like the person you are painting.
His portrait looks just like him, hers she looks more white than black, doesnt look like her at all, the shape of her face isnt even right

[Dr. Who]

I did not post this to insult her, that portrait looks nothing like her, she looks more like a white woman.

That picture is overexposed. The actual painting doesn't look like a white woman, but it's not a great representation of Michelle.

22738

[Chris]

Both are lovely but not a good likeness.

Barack's is better but I don't get the plant overgrowth.

[Tahuyaman]

I think it is lovely....like her. :)


It might be a nice painting, but it doesn't look like Mrs Obama.

[Dr. Who]

I actually like Michelle's portrait, except for the fact that it doesn't really capture her face properly. Barack's portrait was far more accurate, but the foliage is a bit aggressive. The artist was trying too hard to make a statement and the background threatens to overwhelm the subject.

[Common]

That picture is overexposed. The actual painting doesn't look like a white woman, but it's not a great representation of Michelle.

22738
Ok but its still a lousy portrait

[Common]

If you look at obamas hands theres an extra finger on his right hand, art critics are saying his hands are out of proportion.

https://static.pjmedia.com/trending/user-content/51/files/2018/02/180212113953-special-cut-barack-obama-portrait-exlarge-169-699x1024.jpg

https://pjmedia.com/trending/artist-give-obama-extra-finger-go-freakishly-large-hands/

[MMC]

Nope.....doesn't look like her at all. I think the artist was ad-libin. Just sayin.

[MMC]

If you look at obamas hands theres an extra finger on his right hand, art critics are saying his hands are out of proportion.

https://static.pjmedia.com/trending/user-content/51/files/2018/02/180212113953-special-cut-barack-obama-portrait-exlarge-169-699x1024.jpg

https://pjmedia.com/trending/artist-give-obama-extra-finger-go-freakishly-large-hands/

Well.....at least they got his ears Right.

[Cannons Front]

I do not know who the "Artist" was painting but what he ended up with looks nothing like her. I also think it is out scale almost making her look deformed.

[Dangermouse]

Face on, you can see the portrait without the white glare. It could have been a better likeness tho'.

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180212113917-special-cut-michelle-obama-portrait-exlarge-169.jpg

[Grokmaster]

Probably an artist chosen for POLITICAL REASONS, which is the basis for ALL THINGS LEFT...yep...Kehinde Wiley, radical leftist, communist sympathizer....and, of course a black guy...because RACE IS EVERYTHING the Obamas are about.

[Captdon]

I thought it was a joke until I realized it wasn't. It doesn't look like her and if it did she's wearing a tent.

[MMC]

Well they did get one thing Right. Her arms are bigger than BO the Peeps.

[MisterVeritis]

His portrait is perfect but hers does not look like her at all
Yep. I like Barack Hussein O's "sitting on a toilet, five fingers" pose. Perfect.

I get him sitting on the toilet (crapping on the nation?). But what is up with the extra finger and the massively large hands?

[Smartmouthwoman]

Very fitting for the worst president in history. The comparison is dramatic.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180213/193813b21e0c1fb238a35c9904d4ac81.jpg

[Cannons Front]

The painting looks like she has the shoulders of Dick Butkus, and her hands look to be more than 14 inches long, the palms look big enough to cover her whole head

[Agent Cooper]

Both portraits are just plain silly, but it's fitting for 0bama to be sitting in a weed patch, probably wanting to toke a leaf or two.

But totally ridiculous, so YES, they look just like them.

[MMC]

Obama’s Portrait Painter Known For Flowery Paintings of Black Women Decapitating White Women.....


On Monday, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosted a ceremonial unveiling of former President Obama’s official presidential portrait. An official portrait of Michelle Obama was also revealed at the same event.


Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind Obama’s portrait, is not some run-of-the-mill painter, however. His best known works all place a strong emphasis on promoting an ideal of empowered black men and women, frequently including regal or aristocratic imagery and floral or naturalistic background designs. Two such paintings have come into sharp focus today because of their depictions of black women holding bloody knives and the severed heads of white women:


Both paintings depict a reimagining of traditional European paintings of the Biblical character Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, except Wiley changed Judith into a black woman and Holofernes into a white woman.


Wiley's official website (http://kehindewiley.com/) prominently displays the artist posing in front of one of the beheading paintings in a photograph presumably taken in his studio:


The other painting can be found under Wiley's 2012 collection titled "An Economy of Grace" (http://kehindewiley.com/works/an-economy-of-grace/) and was described by the artist himself as a "play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing." (http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/) A description of the painting from the North Carolina Museum of Art's official blog (http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/new_in_the_gallery_kehinde_wiley) makes clear that Wiley's conscious intention was to create a work that glorified the image of a black woman holding power over a white woman by killing her.


If anyone was in doubt about Obama's extreme political leanings before, hopefully his choice of Wiley to paint his official portrait clarifies the matter for good......snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/02/13/obamas-portrait-painted-black-women-decapitating-white-women-n2448487


Indeed!

[Grokmaster]

Obama’s Portrait Painter Known For Flowery Paintings of Black Women Decapitating White Women.....


On Monday, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosted a ceremonial unveiling of former President Obama’s official presidential portrait. An official portrait of Michelle Obama was also revealed at the same event.


Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind Obama’s portrait, is not some run-of-the-mill painter, however. His best known works all place a strong emphasis on promoting an ideal of empowered black men and women, frequently including regal or aristocratic imagery and floral or naturalistic background designs. Two such paintings have come into sharp focus today because of their depictions of black women holding bloody knives and the severed heads of white women:


Both paintings depict a reimagining of traditional European paintings of the Biblical character Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, except Wiley changed Judith into a black woman and Holofernes into a white woman.


Wiley's official website (http://kehindewiley.com/) prominently displays the artist posing in front of one of the beheading paintings in a photograph presumably taken in his studio:


The other painting can be found under Wiley's 2012 collection titled "An Economy of Grace" (http://kehindewiley.com/works/an-economy-of-grace/) and was described by the artist himself as a "play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing." (http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/) A description of the painting from the North Carolina Museum of Art's official blog (http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/new_in_the_gallery_kehinde_wiley) makes clear that Wiley's conscious intention was to create a work that glorified the image of a black woman holding power over a white woman by killing her.


If anyone was in doubt about Obama's extreme political leanings before, hopefully his choice of Wiley to paint his official portrait clarifies the matter for good......snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/02/13/obamas-portrait-painted-black-women-decapitating-white-women-n2448487


Indeed!

Of course; an anti-white racist, long on hatred, short on talent. His paint-by-numbers renderings are quite appropriate for the arrogant, tacky Obamas...

[Dr. Who]

Ok but its still a lousy portrait
True. The artist didn't capture her face properly.

[Dangermouse]

Obama’s Portrait Painter Known For Flowery Paintings of Black Women Decapitating White Women.....


On Monday, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery hosted a ceremonial unveiling of former President Obama’s official presidential portrait. An official portrait of Michelle Obama was also revealed at the same event.


Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind Obama’s portrait, is not some run-of-the-mill painter, however. His best known works all place a strong emphasis on promoting an ideal of empowered black men and women, frequently including regal or aristocratic imagery and floral or naturalistic background designs. Two such paintings have come into sharp focus today because of their depictions of black women holding bloody knives and the severed heads of white women:


Both paintings depict a reimagining of traditional European paintings of the Biblical character Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, except Wiley changed Judith into a black woman and Holofernes into a white woman.


Wiley's official website (http://kehindewiley.com/) prominently displays the artist posing in front of one of the beheading paintings in a photograph presumably taken in his studio:


The other painting can be found under Wiley's 2012 collection titled "An Economy of Grace" (http://kehindewiley.com/works/an-economy-of-grace/) and was described by the artist himself as a "play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing." (http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/) A description of the painting from the North Carolina Museum of Art's official blog (http://ncartmuseum.org/blog/view/new_in_the_gallery_kehinde_wiley) makes clear that Wiley's conscious intention was to create a work that glorified the image of a black woman holding power over a white woman by killing her.


If anyone was in doubt about Obama's extreme political leanings before, hopefully his choice of Wiley to paint his official portrait clarifies the matter for good......snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/chrisreeves/2018/02/13/obamas-portrait-painted-black-women-decapitating-white-women-n2448487


Indeed!

Why do you hate biblically inspired paintings? Judith decapitating Holofornes isn't acceptable to you?

[Max Rockatansky]

It is a waste of money.Only for the Obama's or all the Presidents and First Ladies? Since they're paid for by private donations, it's not an issue for me.


It is a tradition.
Correct. http://time.com/5140261/official-presidential-portraits-history/
On Monday, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama painted by, respectively, Kehinde Wiley (http://time.com/3723580/kehinde-wileys-royal-treatment/) and Amy Sherald. The new paintings will be part of the exhibit America’s Presidents (http://npg.si.edu/exhibition/americas-presidents-reopens) at the National Portrait Gallery, the only place outside the White House with a complete collection of presidential portraits from George Washington to Barack Obama.
The earliest presidential portraits sometimes served as the only images of the president....

....Through the early 20th century, the funds for official portraits mostly came from Congress (https://www.whitehousehistory.org/1600-sessions/presidential-portraits), White House Historical Association curators said in a recent podcast. In more recent history, the money has come from private donations, usually raised by the National Portrait Gallery. (The White House Historical Association has also raised private funds for portraits, but that’s a separate operation.)
The National Portrait Gallery commissioning process used for the Obama portrait is fairly recent, and was only set up towards the end of George H.W. Bush’s term. Since then, the National Portrait Gallery has suggested contemporary artists, and the President will choose one, says Lemay.
Funding for First Ladies’ portraits wouldn’t exist until the 1960s, when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy founded the White House Historical Association. Before that, First Ladies may have arranged to have their own portraits done, or like-minded interest groups would pay for them. For instance, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union paid for the portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes’s First Lady Lucy Hayes because she didn’t allow alcohol in the White House. The commissioning process set up for George H.W. Bush’s portrait has applied to First Ladies too, beginning with Hillary Clinton.

[MMC]

Why do you hate biblically inspired paintings? Judith decapitating Holofornes isn't acceptable to you?

Who said I hate an original. Its the frauds you have to watch out for.

[Dr. Who]

Actually, there are photographs of Michelle that don't look much like we are used to seeing her:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-29755055165e44c0626d632f49568b5a-c
We usually see her face more animated, so perhaps the portrait is not quite as far off as we might think.

[MisterVeritis]

Actually, there are photographs of Michelle that don't look much like we are used to seeing her:
We usually see her face more animated, so perhaps the portrait is not quite as far off as we might think.
I am happy to be done with Mooch.

[silvereyes]

Why do you hate biblically inspired paintings? Judith decapitating Holofornes isn't acceptable to you?

Dont be silly.






He hates the negros in the paintings. ;)

*i did NOT say grok hates all negros*

[silvereyes]

Actually, there are photographs of Michelle that don't look much like we are used to seeing her:
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-29755055165e44c0626d632f49568b5a-c
We usually see her face more animated, so perhaps the portrait is not quite as far off as we might think.

I dont care who says it....she is far from unattractive. She is beautiful, intelligent, gracious, and articulate.

[Dr. Who]

I dont care who says it....she is far from unattractive. She is beautiful, intelligent, gracious, and articulate.
I don't think that she's unattractive, but most pictures of her show her smiling and she looks quite different smiling or displaying some kind of emotion than with a very straight face. Her face is usually quite animated. I still don't think that the portrait is quite right in terms of her facial features, but it's closer to the picture I posted than most of the photographs of her.

[pragmatic]

That picture is overexposed. The actual painting doesn't look like a white woman, but it's not a great representation of Michelle.

22738

Nice painting.

Looks like her to me.

[pragmatic]

I don't think that she's unattractive, but most pictures of her show her smiling and she looks quite different smiling or displaying some kind of emotion than with a very straight face. Her face is usually quite animated. I still don't think that the portrait is quite right in terms of her facial features, but it's closer to the picture I posted than most of the photographs of her.

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)

[Dr. Who]

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)
I am a portraitist in my spare time - there is a small error in the philtrum. It's a bit too short in the portrait. The eyes are a tad smaller than Michelle's and her chin is ever so slightly more square. The hand under her chin is a bit longer than it should be. I'm just guessing here, but I suspect that the artist was working from pictures of Michelle at different ages and different weights as well as sketches or sketch done while sitting for the portrait.

[Common Sense]

Before reading this thread I liked both portraits. Michelle's reminds me of a realist version of Klimt and Obama's is a great departure from the norm and I dig the flatness.

Now that I've heard the howling...I like them more. ;)

[MMC]

In life she really does have great smile. (Whether one is a fan of hers or not.)

The bruthas in Chiraq never talk about her smile. But they do talk about dat ass. Just sayin.