(02-12-2018 03:58 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I wasn't a fan of everything Obama stood for, but at least doesn't sound like an uneducated chimp when he speaks like our current president...

I'm not a fan of Trumps speech or twitter account, but at least he doesn't try to tell me what kind of healthcare insurance I should buy...

(02-12-2018 07:04 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 07:00 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 06:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

Haha!!!!

Which one of these is not like the others??

The white guys in powdered wigs? Am i right?

ol rough and ready sporting that sabre

(02-12-2018 06:28 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

No fair Grover Cleveland got two portraits.

Wait the last picture with a powder wig was when?

Per the Washington Post, it is his portrait.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutg...70a04932ee

Quote:Take a popular former president, add a hot contemporary artist and a historic commission, and you get one of the glitziest events hosted by the Smithsonian that doesn’t involve the opening of an entire museum.

Former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, attracted hundreds of friends and colleagues and the media Monday — including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Shonda Rhimes and Joe Biden — for the unveiling of portraits commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection.

The bold choice of contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley — known for his colorful and subversive style — and up-and-comer Amy Sherald helped fuel interest in the event. They are the first African American artists to receive the president and first lady commissions, respectively, and they bring a contemporary excitement to the traditional portrait, said National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet.

“Kehinde and Amy are taking the best of old portraiture traditions and adding a fresh layer by absorbing the influences of fashion, music, pop culture and painterly inventiveness,” Sajet said. “Together, they are transmitting the energy of urban America into the contemplative spaces of high culture, and I for one am thrilled.”

Wiley’s portrait of the president shows a steely-eyed Obama leaning forward in a chair that seems to float on a background of lush green foliage. The painting will hang in the “America’s Presidents” exhibit, one of the 50-year-old museum’s most popular attractions.

“How about that? Pretty sharp,” said the former president after he and Wiley unveiled the life-size portrait to a swell of “wows” from the crowd.

Wait a minute, you're serious? That's honestly Obama's portrait? The one that's gonna hang in the white house? I thought it was a joke, honestly. Talk about shitting on this country. Anybody thinks he likes this country? Seriously?

(02-12-2018 07:20 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  Wait a minute, you're serious? That's honestly Obama's portrait? The one that's gonna hang in the white house? I thought it was a joke, honestly. Talk about shitting on this country. Anybody thinks he likes this country? Seriously?

I had to look this up and they are real.

WOW!

Yea, surely this isn’t real.

I think its sharp.

I'm ok with the first lady paitning but this one is just fin'g stupid looking.

That being said, bigger concerns in the world.

I'm not understanding why he's got shrubs in the background

(02-12-2018 07:28 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Yea, surely this isn’t real.

(02-12-2018 07:34 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I'm not understanding why he's got shrubs in the background

I mean, its better than powdered white wigs..

(02-12-2018 07:28 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I think its sharp.

I do too...just not appropriate for the situation. The one thing that I always gave Obama was that he carried himself well and was generally very Presidential despite all the drama that surrounded him daily. This is not "Presidential". This is more like something one would find in an art gallery...not a historical depository. Of course...That may well be exactly what he wanted...to stand out glaringly among old white men.

(02-12-2018 07:34 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I'm not understanding why he's got shrubs in the background

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Yep. If the backdrop had been a room in the white house or similar, I think it would have been much better.......

(02-12-2018 07:44 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 07:34 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I'm not understanding why he's got shrubs in the background

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Yep. If the backdrop had been a room in the white house or similar, I think it would have been much better.......

It is for sure by design and with a underlying meaning. I expect we will find out when he publishes his memoirs.

(02-12-2018 07:40 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 07:34 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I'm not understanding why he's got shrubs in the background

I mean, its better than powdered white wigs..

Well powdered wigs ain't in these days. But why be amongst shrubbery? It's different but I'm not sure if that's what I would've went for. But I don't have style or flair.

too easy

These are the single silliest presidential portraits of any country not ruled by a guy who wears outfits like Idi Amin.

They are like the velvet Elvis print of presidential portraits.

Obama as Roger the Shrubber...