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Obama's official portrait unveiled.

Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 1 month ago to Culture
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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.
SOURCE URL: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/racist-verified-obamas-portrait-artist-hires-cheap-chinese-labor-paint-work-says-kill-whitey-major-theme/


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 1 month ago
    During the late 60s when me dino was an art student for a little while, I cooked up the term "artsy fartsy" to describe certain attempts at art such as Wiley's silly trash..
    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.
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    • Posted by 6 years, 1 month ago
      Was that the 60's before the Jurassic ? LOL
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 1 month ago
        That was during the Assic Age when Neanderthals thought it was funny to call Uranus "Your Anus," repeating that version and asking "Get it?" over and over again as did a coworker, who the prison fired for not calling in sick (in the head) as he chased a stripper girlfriend he had proposed to all the way to Las Vegas, kicking down her door to be charged with burglary.
        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!
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        • Posted by 6 years, 1 month ago
          YOOR a nus pronunciation may be necessary to avoid embarrassment; say "YOOR a nus" , not "your anus" or "urine us".

          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.
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 1 month ago
            Me dino was about 14 when I purchased a paperback called "Mythology" by Edith Hamilton, which keeps getting republished.
            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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            • Posted by BeenThere 6 years, 1 month ago
              No sense talking to deaf ears. My parents gave me "Myths of Greece and Rome" sometime before I was 10 years old. Loved the book and still enjoying going through it now and then.
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            • Posted by 6 years, 1 month ago
              We may never know what is myth and what has a basis in fact. The stories were so important that a 14 year old in Dothen Alabama 5841 miles from Athens Greece and thousands of years later.
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              • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 1 month ago
                Your second sentence leaves something out but I believe I know what you're trying to say.
                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!
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    • Posted by $ Suzanne43 6 years, 1 month ago
      You have a right to be proud of yourself.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 1 month ago
        Indeed I should. So verily, I, the personage of me who art His Excellency Dino Allosaurus Esquire, do hereby claim to have created the term, "artsy fartsy" before any other living soul at least blessed with a great mind that thinks alike.
        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.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 6 years, 1 month ago
    If a White artist were to create something similar to what this ... I will call him a person for want of what I really think... he would be hounded for the rest of his life. For a person who once held our highest office to associate himself with trash such as this only proves yet again what a disgusting creature Obama really is.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 6 years, 1 month ago
    Can it look any less American, any less presidential or less culturally divisive? The tapestry hanging between the repulsive portraits in the library in no way represents the United States or his role as president. This "concept" combined with his authorizing them to be publicly placed on display in the library only underscores that he was never our president, never even attempted to lead according to his oath, and did nothing except serve to propagate is unAmerican ogenda.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 6 years, 1 month ago
    Personally, I think he should have been wearing the little green lizard skin number with knee high matching boots he used to wear in Hawaii, as shown on the Manning Report. Sort of a dominatrix style. So much more him. Since the middle finger to the whites was the intent, why not really show his disrespect for the USA!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 1 month ago
    Obama, sitting in a fancy chair floating over a bed of kudzu somehow seems appropriate.
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    • Posted by 6 years, 1 month ago
      Kudzu's environmental and ecological damage results from acting through "interference competition", meaning it outcompetes other species for a resource. Kudzu competes with native flora for light, and acts to block their access to this vital resource by growing over them and shading them with its leaves. Native plants may then die as a result.
      Interesting analogy Obama's policies acted like Kudzu on the economy.
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  • Posted by giallopudding 6 years, 1 month ago
    Postmodernism, and it's rampant relativism, has done to the art world what it has done to politics and philosophy. We shouldn't be surprised, since we live in a world of trigger-fearing snowflakes who would rather nobody judge anybody on anything, than someone speak one word which could offend a delicate flower. The truth doesn't set these "socially conscious" idiots free...it scares the crap out of them. I gave up my paint brushes and oils when, in a moment of clarity, I realized that modern "art" has made itself irrelevant.
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  • Posted by voodoo59 6 years, 1 month ago
    This god-awful thing will end up in the garage at the White house and end up selling for a buck fidy at the 2040 yard sale as a curiosity.
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