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In reply to the discussion: Want a closer look at the Obama portraits? Found these high-quality images on the CNN website. [View all]DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)60. Peter Max came immediately to mind
when I saw these.
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Want a closer look at the Obama portraits? Found these high-quality images on the CNN website. [View all]
Skinner
Feb 2018
OP
Agreed re Michelle's portrait. If I didn't know that was a portrait of Michelle Obama,
No Vested Interest
Feb 2018
#20
I tend not to trust most politicians for obvious reasons, these two changed me on that.
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#3
IKR? Every college/university has at least one professor whose job it is to explain art.
Gidney N Cloyd
Feb 2018
#33
Pro-Trump trolls are coordinating a smear campaign against Obama portrait artist, Kehinde Wiley
demmiblue
Feb 2018
#67
Every single one of those paintings by European and American artists are "kill whitey" depictions
MrScorpio
Feb 2018
#109
You may want to take a look at this before you talk about the artist's paintings
geardaddy
Feb 2018
#98
My first impression was that Michelles portrait looks more like the artist then Michelle
Sucha NastyWoman
Feb 2018
#56
I'd have preferred something a bit more formal and dignified... less trendy pop-culture.
NurseJackie
Feb 2018
#72
What is "off" about the face of Michelle's portrait, IMO, is the right side...
3catwoman3
Feb 2018
#76
Ooohhh--she is wearing her famous blue-grey nail color! I didn't notice that in
tblue37
Feb 2018
#77