Yeah, Obama chose a gay, black, racist, sperm-obsessed so-called artist and it backfired on him - lol

Kehinde Wiley garners no respect in the art world - and for good reason which I'll explain later


The artist - Kehinde Wiley - is Racist -

Revealed: Barack Obama's official portrait artist once painted black women BEHEADING white women in controversial works he described as 'a play on the "kill whitey" thing'

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

"Kehinde Wiley, 41, has come under scrutiny for past paintings

There are at least two instances where he has painted black women holding a knife in one hand and the decapitated head of a white woman in the other

In a 2012 interview, Wiley described the portraits as 'sort of a play on the "kill whitey" thing'

Others include African-American males taking on the roles of the Virgin Martyr St Cecilia and king of the Franks, Clovis I

Critics have described the works as formulaic and 'as if it didn’t really matter what the figures did or stood for'

The artist who painted former President Barack Obama's official portrait has come under fire for past works featuring scandalous subjects."

Obama Portrait Artist Kehinde Wiley Once Painted Black Women Decapitating White Women

[www.thewrap.com]

"With his rendering of President Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley became the first African American to ever paint an official presidential portrait, but the new-found fame has also drawn attention to some of the artist’s more boundary-pushing past works.

Two paintings from 2012, depicting the Biblical story of Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, began making the rounds online on Monday. In Wiley’s rendering, Judith is depicted as a black woman and Holofernes as a white woman."

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For RHB because he loves leftist Snopes -

[www.snopes.com]

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I posted on the other thread proof of his sperm obsession, 'hidden sperm' that he includes in his portraits -

[www.rawfoodsupport.com]

But here are more examples of 'hidden sperm' by the sperm obsessed artist who Obama chose - because RHB seems to like them so much -









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So as per usual - the left is attacking anyone who criticizes the artist and states the fact that the artist paints portraits with 'hidden sperm' in them and The Libs/Left is Labeling them 'Racist'.

Just stating facts and providing proof will get you vilified.

So here's another instance of the hypocritical left -

Using Cheap Labor from China is 'bad'- right?

Wrong! Not when Obama's artist does it in Obama's portrait -

Many of the leaves and flowers appeared to be copy/pasted, possibly within digital editing software such as Adobe Photoshop:



A Racist Con-Man: Obama’s Portrait Artist, Who Hires Cheap Chinese Labor To Paint “His” Work, Says “Kill Whitey” Is A Major Theme

[thegatewaypundit.com]

Since Obama’s portrait was unveiled, I’ve received a flurry of text messages from outraged artist friends I made while living in New York. No, they weren’t outraged because they saw Kehinde Wiley’s other painting that feature black women murdering white women. They were outraged because Kehinde Wiley is a terrible artist who only rose to prominence, something they have been attempting to do their entire lives, in the art world because he is a racist gay black man. And if that werent enough: he doesn’t even paint his own work.

His works are Billboard painting quality. If he was white, he has not enough skill to be famous artist.

This went on to him expressing frustration at the art world, especially in New York where tastes are created and artists are seen to emerge more so than anywhere else in the US, that there is not so much a demand for quality in the art world anymore. There is more of a demand for affirmative action. He described an artist friend of his whose assistants (a disgustingly common practice these days among “artists” who’ve made it) are primarily composed of white girls, but when any sort of New York art media or coverage enters his studio for a profile, his assistants quickly change race and gender: “My friend was working in his studio. There were many white girls in his studio. But when shooting for magazine or film came to his studio, he hides white assistants and showed only Latino boy assistants. He knows how to show himself on media.”

So, alright, affirmative action seems to be a major thing in New York – if you are white, or even Asian, you can count on a struggle. The art world doesn’t want you because they’re too busy propping up those technically bad painters who happen to be able to tick more boxes off the intersectionality checklist.

And Wiley certainly can check quite a few boxes off that checklist: a black, gay man, who pushes the anti-white rhetoric that the left revels in these days. But there is another problem, a big one:

Wiley doesn’t actually paint his work.

A common technique used, especially by Chinese labor “painters” who mass produce work, is to repeat a pattern over and over rather than use an artist’s intuition to create a scene.

Producing work in China cuts costs, but not as much as it used to, Wiley says. These days in Beijing he employs anywhere from four to ten workers, depending on the urgency, plus a studio manager

And there you have it, disgusting as it may be. Is the skill of Wiley’s work good? No, but maybe that’s because he outsources the work to underpaid Chinese labor. Are his concepts good or original? No. It’s very unoriginal these days to be a racist black man whose raison d’etre purely centered around anti-white ideologies. So why is Wiley famous now? How did a former president of the United States end up tapping this sly con artist to paint his portrait, an incredible honor for any artist? What does it say about the state of the arts and modern American culture that we’re willing to pay a hustler hundreds of thousands of dollars to have underpaid Chinese women paint large anti-white paintings?

All that can be definitively answered is: A racist con-artist is being propped up by not just the deranged art world but a former president, and that should trouble everybody.

So when I said that Kehinde Wiley garners no respect in the art world and NYC, it's because of the above-stated quality of his work. Also read this article -

What to Make of Kehinde Wiley’s Pervy Brooklyn Museum Retrospective?

[www.villagevoice.com]

By now the Wiley formula is so familiar — and so legible on TV — that it operates as a shorthand for black empowerment: His well-known portraits of young men from the projects dropped into Old Masterish settings are the black figurative equivalent of Thomas Kinkade.

But look closer at the 50-some objects — painting, sculpture, stained glass — in “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” and you’ll see predatory behavior dressed up as art-historical affirmative action. Wiley’s targets are young people of color who in these pictures are gussied up in the trappings of art history or Givenchy. Judging from Wiley’s market and institutional
success — in his fifteen-year career, this is his second solo at the Brooklyn Museum — Wiley has proven himself a canny operator seducing an art public cowed by political correctness and willing to gloss over the more lurid implications of the 38-year-old artist’s production.

And then there is Wiley’s casting-couch method. In the early 2000s, after
he graduated from Yale, Wiley did a residency at the Studio Museum and began inviting men he met on the streets into his studio to pose. “When I’m approaching these guys, there’s a presupposed engagement,” Wiley said in the 2008 Art Newspaper interview. “I don’t ask people what their sexualities are, but there’s a sense in which male beauty is being negotiated.”

Once in the studio, Wiley presents his model with art-history books and asks him to choose which painting he’d like to be in. Straining to legitimize this method, Brooklyn Museum curator Eugenie Tsai lauds the artist in the exhibition catalog for “the subject’s active participation” in a “collaborative encounter…co-produced by the subject and the artist.”

What Wiley and his subjects do behind the scenes may be none of our business, but his paintings kiss and tell. Saint Andrew grinds his crotch against a wooden cross, and in case we don’t quite get it, Wiley has painted free-floating spermatozoa across the canvas. The same goes for the bear of a fellow in Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, which could be subtitled “(Through a Light Ejaculate Mist).” And if the painted tadpoles aren’t sufficiently suggestive, several of the gilded frames contain sperm reliefs of their own. (Talk about painting outside the lines.)

In what world is a Yale-minted artist who lures young men into his studio
with the promise of power and glamour not predatory? These aren’t portraits. They’re types — to the point where the majority of his titles reflect only the identity of the original sitter; his models remain anonymous.

Do instances such as this one validate the rest of Wiley’s output or render his methods less perverse? We’ll never know. Having discovered the art world’s weakness, Wiley has painted himself as untouchable.

So to recap -

Obama portrait artist is racist painting portraits of behedding white women

Obama portrait artist is sperm obsessed and paints 'hidden sperm' in his portraits

Obama portrait artist outsources his paintings to Cheap Chinese Labor

Obama portrait artist has a reputation as being 'a great artist' only because he's a gay, black, racist guy and everybody's afraid to criticize and speak truth about his work

And yet - the Libs are falling all over themselves praising Obama's laughable portrait.

And if anyone criticizes and speaks The Truth about The Artist and Obama's Portrait, they're Labeled 'Racist'.

In other words -

The Emperor Has No Clothes

And all the Libs have left is -

'bu..., bu..., but... Hannity."

I just saw the portrait.

I thought it was poorly done.

The art should focus on Obama and his face, in my opinion. instead the artist focuses on green leaves, as if that matters.

I don't think he did a good job of his face. Also Obama had unique hair and the leaves become more important than the full picture of his head and hair and that is unfair, I think.

I also think it was poor posture and the artist should have chosen a more dignified pose.

Obama had a statuesque stance and gait, and overall elegance, and the artist should have captured that.

Not befitting at all.

p.s. I just read some critiques and someone pointed out that the artist added an extra finger on Obama's hand and elongated them. This is not presidential.



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I agree, Tai. Obama is a handsome dignified looking guy. This artist did not do him justice. Obama is presidential looking, so it's a shame this wasn't just a traditional presidential portrait.

But the main problem with the portrait is the background. Only one word to describe it - It's Tacky.

Definition of tacky. 1 : not having or exhibiting good taste: such as. a : marked by cheap showiness : gaudy.

And yeah, the fingers on the one hand look weird, like there's another finger tucked under the little finger.

I forgot to include a picture of the portrait -

Obama was yesterday.
Can we talk about Today.
Trump.

Quote Rawpracticalist Obama was yesterday.
Can we talk about Today.
Trump.

By all means How about His Potus portrait with a porn star in back ground and a check for 300 grand..

You have it ass backwards my friend Trump was a hundred years ago
Obama is today!

Obama's Portrait Is Unlike Any Before It — Here's Why the Artist Painted It That Way
JOSH BILLINSON | FEB 16, 2018 | 1:45 PM


Kehinde Wiley/The Obama Foundation
Some people were caught off guard by the colorful portrait of former President Barack Obama unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on Monday, but artist Kehinde Wiley's explanation of the significance of certain aspects of the painting adds a much deeper meaning.
“Over the course of the past year, I have had the life-changing honor of painting President Obama's portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,” Wiley wrote in an email for the Obama Foundation.
“In choosing the composition and colors for this painting, I sought to create an allegorical index to President Obama's life story — using key botanicals that reference his personal presence in the world,” Wiley wrote of the flowers scattered behind Obama in the painting. “Jasmine from Hawaii. Chrysanthemums from Chicago. Blue African Lilies from Kenya.”

Kehinde Wiley/The Obama Foundation
“And the nature of the president's pose is not sword-wielding or swashbuckling,” he added. “It's contemplative. Humble. Open to the world in its possibilities. A man of the people.”
Wiley also explained the significance of the responsibility he was given when he was chosen to paint Obama:
The particular honor of being the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president has been, for me, beyond any individual recognition.
It is bigger than me, and anything I could gain out of this. It presents a whole field of potential for young people — particularly young black and brown kids who might see these paintings on museum walls and see their own potential.
Art can function in practical, descriptive ways — but it can also inspire in so many resounding multiplicities.
“That is my hope for this painting,” Wiley wrote. “Thank you.”
Obama had previously explained why he chose Wiley to paint his portrait.
“Kehinde Wiley and I share some things in common,” Obama explained. “Both of us had an American mother who raised us, an African father who was absent from our lives, and a search to figure out just where we fit in.”
Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama will remain at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the only museum outside of the White House that maintains a full collection of presidential portraits.

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Wiley can explain the meaning of the tacky background and the portrait can 'represent' whatever he and all The Libs say it represents, but no explanation will change the fact that it garners a "Yikes!" from everyone who sees it. Actually my first reaction was to laugh. So it's a "LOL" and a "Yikes!"

Might as well critique Michelle Obama's portrait, also.






Yeah, her hands are big with so long fingers, her head and face are tiny, gray scale skin tone. She's wearing a Kandinsky painting which dominates the portrait. Oh, yeah - it doesn't look like Michele Obama at all.

But of course -

Michelle Obama's artist - Amy Sherald - is known for the social justice themes in her paintings, as well as her take on political, cultural and social identities.



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I would have picked lifelike oil paintings of the Obamas.

I think those are marijuana leaves surrounding Barack Obama. I think your pic is photoshopped, Jennifer.

Michelle's portrait is very disappointing, in my opinion. Didn't she plant an organic garden on the white house land? Why put her in such an artificial looking gown?

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Tai
I would have picked lifelike oil paintings of the Obamas.

I think those are marijuana leaves surrounding Barack Obama. I think your pic is photoshopped, Jennifer.

Michelle's portrait is very disappointing, in my opinion. Didn't she plant an organic garden on the white house land? Why put her in such an artificial looking gown?

Yes, they would have looked great in traditional presidential portraits. But they were trying to send a social message.

I don't think mine was photoshopped because all the photos I see all look the same. I checked out other photos from Google Images from regular mainstream websites and here are a couple more, but I think they look like the one I posted.


From CNN -



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From - "This image provided by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, is of the official portrait of former President Barack Obama, released Monday, Feb. 12, 2018 in Washington. The portrait artist is Kehinde Wiley. Photo via AP"

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Tai

Michelle's portrait is very disappointing, in my opinion. Didn't she plant an organic garden on the white house land? Why put her in such an artificial looking gown?

Michelle Obama's portrait is all about the gown - it sends a powerful social message -

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The Hidden Political Message of Michelle Obama’s Portrait Dress

From the pattern to the designer, the dress is the most revealing part.

[www.politico.com]

While the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled Monday were applauded by the art world—for their intense visual impact as much as the choice of Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, artists who are both critical darlings and the first African-Americans to paint presidential portraits commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery—there was plenty for the Twitterati to snark about. The wall of greenery behind President Obama was an obvious opening for jokes about his history with marijuana and Sean Spicer hiding in the White House bushes. Criticism of Michelle Obama’s portrait centered around two points. The face didn’t look much like her; some suggested it more closely resembles Kerry Washington, who plays a high-powered White House operative on Scandal. And the face—whoever it belonged to—was overshadowed by the striking, floor-length dress.

But there’s a reason for both of those criticisms: The dress is what says the most in this portrait, far more than the indistinct face.

First, the criticism about the lack of resemblance to the former first lady comes as no surprise to those of us familiar with the work of Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist. While she is best known for her stylized portraits of African-American women, they aren’t really portraits in the traditional sense. They depict anonymous subjects, under evocative titles like Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance) and The Make Believer (Monet’s Garden), contrasting grayscale skin tones against colorful clothing and a monochrome background. The neutral palette challenges racial stereotypes, while the flat plane evokes American folk art. At the unveiling, Sherald described the composition as “the act of Michelle Obama being her authentic self”—suggesting that she was aiming for something more than a mere superficial resemblance.

Secondly, there’s a reason why Obama’s face is the least interesting element here: The dress is as much a window into the former first lady’s identity as her face, and possibly a more accurate one. The gown is a custom creation by Michelle Smith, closely based on a piece from the Spring/Summer 2017 ready-to-wear collection she produced under the more familiar name of her company, Milly. The halter top shows off those famous arms, the humble cotton (with pockets, no less) gives a nod to Obama's down-to-earth approachability and the vast sweep of the skirt lends drama and majesty befitting a first lady.

The choice of designer, though, might be the most striking political statement ever to be found lurking in the details of a presidential or first lady portrait.

But Obama and Smith share more than a first name. Few designers, especially those with Smith’s mass-market appeal, have been as outspoken in their opposition to Trump as Smith. In November 2017, Smith told Teen Vogue: “What I had felt to be an extraordinary triumph for equality—the election of an African-American president—was my children’s normal. Gay marriage and LGBTQ equality was their normal. Their generation, I had often thought, is where the real shift in equality and human rights will take place. I had easily assumed their next ultimate role model would be a female president. I was wrong. . . . All the rights I had sadly taken for granted . . . now felt threatened. I had to do something.”

A longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood, Smith created a T-shirt to commemorate its 100th anniversary in 2017, donating 100 percent of the profits to the organization.

Obama consistently used fashion to score political points as first lady, and she continues to do so. Her portrait is a fashion statement that will echo through the ages—and, if critics look beyond the paint and the canvas, a daring political statement, too.

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Michelle Obama's Portrait Milly Dress Sends a Powerful Political Message

[www.yahoo.com]

or Michelle Obama’s official White House portrait, she chose artist Amy Sherald. With Barack’s portrait by Kehinde Wiley, they are the first-ever White House portraits of Presidents and First Ladies to be created by African-American artists. As it turns out, though, Michelle made a political statement with more than just her choice of painter, choosing a gown by New York-based designer Michelle Smith of Milly.

The cotton gown was mainly black and white, with colorful stripes at the base. It was a look that walked the runway for the designer’s Spring 2017 show. While the gown is gorgeous simply as a colorful frock, Smith shared with The Washington Post that the whole collection actually had a more political inspiration that we might have realized. She told the publication that the looks were inspired by a “desire for equality, equality in human rights, racial equality, LGBTQ equality.” She went on to add that knots and ties throughout the silhouettes of each piece were meant to evoke a “feeling of being held back…that we’re not quite there yet.”

And, while the poignant political message from Smith’s collection made the look all the more important, the designer stressed the material and construction as well, noting, “I think what makes [the dress] so modern is the element of comfort — there are pockets in the side seams — and of being confident. It’s very much of our time.”

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Michelle Obama’s Portrait Dress Choice Is No Coincidence, Here’s the Sneaky Message She Sent

[www.westernjournal.com]

After former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait was unveiled Monday at the Smithsonian, many people pointed out that the face in the painting looked nothing like Obama herself.

But Obama’s face isn’t the only unique part of the painting. Rather, it’s the dress she wore in the portrait that may have sent a hidden political message.

The woman who designed the former first lady’s dress, Michelle Smith, is an outspoken supporter of liberal causes like LGBT equality and Planned Parenthood.

After unveiling campaigns in the spring and fall of 2017 that were geared toward the LGBT community, she noted she wanted to reach out to those people following Trump’s election.

“It felt right to reach out to the LGBT community who is feeling threatened right now under Trump and the administration,” Smith told The Hollywood Reporter.

Many of the photos she has used to advertise her designs have been unmistakable statements of support for LGBT rights.

She has released photos of women kissing each other, and in 2018, she used gender fluid model Elliott Sailors to promote her work.

In November 2017, moreover, she ranted to Teen Vogue that under Trump, the rights she “had sadly taken for granted” now felt “threatened.” Smith had hoped and assumed the U.S. would have its “first female president,” but she was mistaken.

“What I had felt to be an extraordinary triumph for equality — the election of an African-American president — was my children’s normal. Gay marriage and LGBTQ equality was their normal,” she said.

“Their generation, I had often thought, is where the real shift in equality and human rights will take place. I had easily assumed their next ultimate role model would be a female president. I was wrong. … All the rights I had sadly taken for granted . . . now felt threatened. I had to do something.”

In addition to her LGBT activism, Smith is a supporter of Planned Parenthood, and in 2017, she even created a T-shirt to commemorate the abortion provider’s 100th anniversary. All the profits from the shirt were donated to the organization.



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"Many of the leaves and flowers appeared to be copy/pasted, possibly within digital editing software such as Adobe Photoshop:



His works are Billboard painting quality. If he was white, he has not enough skill to be famous artist.

Wiley doesn’t actually paint his work.

A common technique used, especially by Chinese labor “painters” who mass produce work, is to repeat a pattern over and over rather than use an artist’s intuition to create a scene."

"This painter (not artist, painter) used a projector hence the same flower pattern but she isn’t even using them correctly. If you don’t put a level on the projector front to back, side be side and get it totally level, you get the distortion that both paintings have. And she doesn’t understand how, where to do shadows either."

Wow, so Michelle Obama actually picked that gown for the portrait. So the Obamas used their dignified platform of their portraits, which could have been masterpieces of art, to send a political message that they didn't even have when Barack was running for office and was first elected.

In 2008, he said: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."

Yeah, back to the Obamas' portraits for a minute ...

Just thought this was amusing -

[www.powerlineblog.com]


I especially like the empty chair portrait.