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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]BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)57. They just showed them on MSNBC
and they said that the flowers on President Obama's (wow, that felt odd, I haven't written "president" next to a name since inauguration day 2017) portrait represent different places in his live...like the official flower of Chicago and Hawaii, etc. Michelle said she wants younger people to look at her portrait in the future and think about how brown some first families were.
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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