Obama's official portrait unveiled.
As an Artist I find this choice to be more of a middle finger to reason and race relations than to recognize someone's talent.
The unveiling of former President Barack Obama’s official portrait on 12 February 2018 also introduced many Americans to artist Kehinde Wiley for the first time as well, as opening the door to late-breaking controversy over some of Wiley’s earlier work.
Wiley, who has described his own visual style as “bombastic, syrupy, and garish,” is celebrated in the contemporary art world for his large-scale portraits of black and brown men and women striking heroic poses modeled on those of aristocrats in classic European paintings.
Two celebrated paintings show a black woman holding a severed white woman's head
“It’s sort of a play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing,” Wiley said in a 2012 interview with New York Magazine.
The unveiling of former President Barack Obama’s official portrait on 12 February 2018 also introduced many Americans to artist Kehinde Wiley for the first time as well, as opening the door to late-breaking controversy over some of Wiley’s earlier work.
Wiley, who has described his own visual style as “bombastic, syrupy, and garish,” is celebrated in the contemporary art world for his large-scale portraits of black and brown men and women striking heroic poses modeled on those of aristocrats in classic European paintings.
Two celebrated paintings show a black woman holding a severed white woman's head
“It’s sort of a play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing,” Wiley said in a 2012 interview with New York Magazine.
Have a great evening BT
Thank you to Allosaur for the school's name.
For reasonably decent artists who find how crooked the shows and studios can be, she suggests they look into doing animal portraits. There are a lot of owners of pets, including horse owners, who would really like a good portrait of a beloved pet, but find it hard to locate a willing artist. Horse owners in particular pay a good fee for a portrait.
Perfect fit.
Years later I heard an actor say "artsy fartsy" in some minor movie and wondered if there was a connection to me through my brother Steve, who was a student and then an employee at Southern Cal where making movies is taught.
That would be called breaking and entering here in Alabama but maybe he also snatched back an engagement ring. I dunno.
Some people you're just glad to see go away, though. Bye, bye!
Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god. Uranus was the son and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus (Saturn) and of the Cyclopes and Titans (predecessors of the Olympian gods).
Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King George III of England; others called it "Herschel". The name "Uranus" was first proposed by Bode in conformity with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn't come into common use until 1850.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/myth...
Think it likely I knew more about Greek, Roman and Norse mythology (due to that book) than any other kid in Dothan, Alabama.
Found it frustrating to talk about the ancient gods even when astronomy was the subject. There was always someone who'd ask, "You don't believe in that stuff, do you?"
I'd say no but that mythology has a lot of great stories.
Noses would be still be raised and I began to keep the knowledge to myself.
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I was perhaps 16 on a double date when I saw special effects master Ray Harryhaussen's Jason And The Argonauts.
At that point I had my mythology down so well that I knew Jason did not fight the Hydra to obtain the Golden Fleece. Just a regular ole' dragon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-dk...
I knew killing the Hydra was one of the Labors Of Hercules. Hercules' hydra heads would grow back almost as fast as he cut them off. So he used a torch to cauterize the wounds. Once the hydra ran out of heads, that critter was toast.
The lady watching Jason fight the hydra in the movie is a witch named Medea. At the end of the movie, Zeus tells Hera he has other adventures for Jason.
Other adventures? Bah! All that's left for Jason is what happens in an ancient play called "Medea."
Jason decides to take a second wife partly because he could legally do that.
In response, Medea slaughters their children and flies off in a chariot drawn by dragons, leaving Jason to face life as a broken man. Some adventure that was!
Driving from the theater, did I tell my date or the couple in the back seat any of that? Nope!
Sixteen-year-old dino did not want to be thought of as being weird. Thought I may even be asked if I believed in the gods of Mount Olympus. Sheesh!
Sorry for not finishing my above sentence ..in a rush. Should have concluded with ....have read about.
May it be known that whenever me dino is seen tromping through Jurassic jungles, that one may in all truthfulness proclaim, "Thet thar goeth, y'all, The Him who first taunted crappy exhibitions of art and sayeth unto that so-called art and/or unto the so-called artist, "Thou art artsy fartsy" to the eternal gratitude of all who art blessed with good taste.
The thing that really sticks in my craw about this, is that Obama by his very position as a former President legitimizes this sick person. Essentially Obama signs off on EVERYTHING that he has ever created and by extension so does the Left.
So therefore the Left believes that it is OK to depict the murder of a White woman as long as it glorifies a Black man.
Imagine what would happen if Trump said that he likes this song.https://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Web007...
Truly the darkest of times...
Interesting analogy Obama's policies acted like Kudzu on the economy.