Barack and Michelle Obama don’t like to waste an opportunity, in word or action, to make larger points about contemporary life and culture. In that vein, their choices of artists for their official portraits in the collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery shine a spotlight on the state of American art. One is an established figurative painter, the other is relatively unknown and a possible rising art-world star. Both are African-American.
The Obama's favorite artist, who admits he's inspired by a "kill whitey" thing...
In their selection of Kehinde Wiley, for Mr. Obama’s likeness, and Amy Sherald, for Mrs. Obama’s, announced Friday, the Obamas continue to highlight the work of contemporary and modern African-American artists, as they so often did with the artworks they chose to live with in the White House, by Glenn Ligon, Alma Thomas and William H. Johnson, among others. Their choices then and now reflect the Obamas’ instincts for balancing the expected and the surprising, and for being alert to painting’s pertinence to the moment.Chaser. [Obama Portrait Artist Kehinde Wiley Once Painted Black Women Decapitating White Women, The Wrap, 2-12-18]:
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.
What's the point of Obama's favorite artist paintings?
Fans of the Obama portrait will recognize Wiley’s photo-realistic human figures, distinct colors and prominent use of floral backgrounds.
“Judith and Holofernes is from Wiley’s most recent body of work and his first series of paintings to feature female subjects,” a 2012 explanation of the work from the North Carolina Museum of Art foundation reads. “Wiley translates this image of a courageous, powerful woman into a contemporary version that resonates with fury and righteousness.”
In a New York Magazine piece also from 2012, Wiley explained that the impetus for the work came from the renditions of the Biblical scene by Renaissance artists Caravaggio and Gentileschi.
In keeping with his long-running style of painting black subjects in poses based on classic imagery from Western art and iconography, Wiley depicted Judith as a powerful black woman. His reasons for keeping Holofernes white and changing the general into a woman remain less clear.
A representative for the artist did not immediately respond to request for comment from TheWrap.Is there a white artist who has painted a portrait of Donald J. Trump (or any other white person) holding the decapitated head of a black person?
No?
So why would the Obamas select a black artist who has a penchant for painting black people holding the decapitated heads of white people?
Remember: their portrait choices matter: “It’s sort of a play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing,” Kehinde Wiley told New York Magazine previously.
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Looks like something any local fifth grader could outdo in a 30 minute art class session.
If I was in that crowd, which I'm sure was well vetted to make sure only ballwashers and true believers were in attendance, a loud burst of laughter would have been heard.
Then again life imitates art. Amateur art for two low class interlopers.
I'll stick with Claude Monet or Hieronymus Bosch thank you very much.
Rube Neckbone the Deplorable
Yeah, this is getting more frightening by the minute. Insulting to say the least. Right in our faces daily. I’m actually afraid that we will take it sitting down.
Has a talent for making blacks even uglier than they are in person. Official White House portraits? Did they have any say in the final product? You can tell it was done by a no talent black guy. Simply awful.
Dear White People
It looks to be like you have a persistent group of stalkers that is dangerously fixated on you, You Are Always On Their Mind.
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Brian in Ohio said...The Panama Canal. That Carter gave away, now commies can ship nukes thru it.
It's currently a work in progress.
It won't be complete until it is splattered with elephant dung like that masterpiece of African art that Mayor Giuliani so objected to many years ago.
Some pretty crappy stuff but if the Obongos like 'em, fine. Don't know anything about the woman portrait artist but the man, Wiley, has some similarities to BHO. He was born in Los Angeles to an Afromerican mother and a Nigerian daddy. The father split early and years later Wiley made a pilgrimage to Lagos, Nigeria to find him (sound familiar?). He scoured the slums and after two weeks found him.
Wiley is openly and proudly gay (downlow) so the substitution of female for male figures and decapitations (which may symbolize castration), indicate a profound psychosexual dissonance or dysfunction. Let's see if in the years to come he opts for sexual re-assignment surgery.
That type of photo realism is fairly easy to do with a projector. Wiley did one similar to David's Napoleon on Stallion----except it has Michael Jackson's bleached face!
I would like to give another reason why you will be safer living in these small towns in the mid-west.
Last week I stepped out my front door and slipped on a sheet of ice. I hit the back of my head on the sidewalk. Three neighbors in the grocery store across the street came to my rescue (two women and one guy). The sidewalk was so slippery they couldn't stand up. To help me they had to get on all fours. I had a bad concussion and only remember sitting at my front desk wrapped in a blanket. They later told me the only way to get me inside was all four of us crawled on our hands and knees. Once inside they sat me in the chair and wrapped me in a blanket. That was when my brain came back to life.
It had rained the night before and by morning the temperature dropped to freezing. The whole town became a sheet of ice. Five other people hit the ground that day. ALL WERE HELPED BY THEIR NEIGHBORS. The high school math teacher fell in front of the school and five students helped him get on his feet and back inside.
I still had a bunch of Codeine left over from a couple years ago when I broke my ankle. That has helped with a week long headache. I get dizzy if I stand up to fast. For the last week my life has been in slow motion. I've taken a lot of hits to the head over the years, but this was the big one.
If I had fallen down in New York City or any other shit hole big city nobody would have helped me. The local sub-humans would have stolen my wallet and maybe even my coat and shoes.
In these hundreds and hundreds of small towns in the FREE ZONE your neighbors will help you out when your in trouble. A couple days ago the lady that lives behind me brought over a huge container of chicken noodle soup and some cookies.
When living in a small town you are dealing with an entirely different species of people. What is that big difference. It is very simple. WE CARE FOR EACH OTHER.
You have to give him this much: if Zero wanted to make the point that he is not American and hates Americans and America, his choice of official portraits drove it home.
Now to un-do his legacy, starting with declaring his eligibility for office void and removing every last one of his hires and appointments.
Those pictures are creepy, just like the creepy feeling I get around blacks knowing that they'll cut me up if given the opportunity. Scary times to live if you live near blacks.
T minus 4 days till we may see a full fledged Catagory 5 hurricane at the movies. I even ran a poll and the majority predicted just that, far more chaos then mere 'shots rang out' or 'teens run amock'. And now this! 🙄 Homo erctus.
This just in from the Africans in America news bureau...
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/philly-school-paying-kids-peace-20180211.html
The gaudy bright jewel tones are used to distract from the amateurish, unrealistic sophomoric brush strokes. File this one under "a-third-grader-can-do-better."
Like I have said on previous boards, the portraits are good enough for those two. Saw the male artist, he was dressed like a pump.
What is shocking is how whites are fawning over these two, they disgust me more than the lowly negro.
ABCNews did their part, when the portraits were unveiled, all audio was cut off to hide the gasps.
Female in FL
I am amazed that someone who has so much to say does so anonymously.
Imagine if Donald Trump had his portrait painted by a person who liked to depict white people lynching blacks and see if you think everyone would excuse it like they are for this " artist"
The day the blacks and browns actively start chopping our heads off is fast approaching...as Whites die off and the orc hordes grow, they will take political power, flood us with mud, and then go for the kill...bet on it.
CRITICAL move with all this DACA BS is to NOT include voting rights in any compromise. Best if they leave, but if Trump caves and let's them stay, do NOT let them vote. One crime and they sent to peak colony. Strict monitoring.
If DACA illegals get the vote, it's end of White race in America.
Hopefullly this will red pill many white women. We need to show this to as many women as possible. This is an open celebration of the murder of white women by the establishment.
Trashy people associate with trashy people of like mind so it's no surprise the Obama's would select a "kill whitey" artist to do their portraits. I consider both of them to be little more than afro-centric morons consumed with black identity politics and a hate whitey attitude. It would have been better for America if both had been born in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya or in Liberia and were never heard from or seen. It's America's misfortune that it was not so. At least they're not infesting the White House along with the grandsow anymore. The only surprise to me was (at the time) that they didn't have that illegal alien relative of Obama's (or Al Sharpton!) shacked up in the Lincoln bedroom.
Don't believe for a minute that South Africa is that far off in America. It will come here, it's just a matter of time until the black population hits critical mass. Due to the inequality in genetic IQ distribution, they are prevented from understanding the true reasons why white people become more successful on average. They're low IQ also makes them more susceptible to actually believing the insane excuses for black failure.
The females in his paintings look like those you are forced to deal with at the DMV.
The silver lining in this thundercloud is that Obama is the FORMER president.
Growing up in Louisiana, as a child we would take school field trips to museums and one of the artists that we were always subjected to was "Clementine Hunter." She was a bit of a local legend that lived to be 100 or so. She grew up on a post-civil war plantation and would paint sketches on various pieces of debris like broken jugs and old window frames, etc... She continued painting all the way through the 1980's and her paintings would fetch high prices.
These paintings looked like something that kindergartners do. There was no proportion or scaling (trees, people, houses, etc... were all the same size.) The paintings were truly primitive, akin to distorted, crude hieroglyphs. Do a quick google image search and you will see what I mean.
But she won every award imaginable. The white adults would signal by declaring her an amazing artist, all the while, the students were looking at each other like "you've got to be kidding me." It was almost like they were challenging us to disagree so that we could be publicly dressed down for simply stating the obvious - these paintings were total crap. They would say these things and visibly examine the crowd trying to identify dissenters.
The effort to get white children to pretend blacks are invaluable and perform critical functions that society could not live without, begins early indeed. A similar experience was later in life was when we were asked to pretend the homeless black drug addict, Basquiat, was worthy of multi-million dollar payouts for his garish sketches.
As for these specific paintings, they do look very low quality, the one of Michelle in particular. She is not a particularly feminine looking woman (few black females are ... sexual dimorphism and all of that) on her own. I think in an effort to make her look less masculine, the artist only ended up making her unrecognizable. Most people would not be able to identify her until someone told them first, "this is Michelle Obama." Like Clementine Hunter, the one of Obama has scaling problems with his forearm being the same length as his femur.
Again, whitey is being asked to pretend.
Ah, yes 4 days till the negro learns the truth about how Whites stole their technology.....
I can't wait.
A few posts back, someone asked for the "over/under" for shootings at the theaters showing this joke. Well, I once found a web site that would tell you the # of theaters showing a particular movie....... imdb ....... and it has a link where I can find current movies, but I can't find one for movies not out yet.
Back when Atlas Shrugged was being made into a movie (3 parts) I could find where the episodes were going to be showing. Unfortunately, I can't find this for WAKANDA. Once it starts, this Friday, I will be able to find that info at imdb.
But, I can assure the person asking for the "odds".........the # of shootings will equal the # of theaters. That's a given.
I showed these "art" works to my wife just now. She used to believe I overreacted to the black problem, but this time she said, "You know, we're becoming more like South Africa every day. This is really serious."
But this latest example of how out-of-hand, out-of-touch, whites have become in permitting such outrages is testimony to how far down the road of self destruction we've allowed these people and those who support them to proceed.
Ex-New Yorker, that fall was no fault of your own. Happened to me when I was in my twenties and still agile. Wham, bang, you're down before you realize what happened. Hope your recovery is going well.
I haven't commented in a while. Really felt there wasn't much left to say. But felt compelled. Blacks will do that to you.
Actually, I think the negress holding the decapitated white woman's head looks more like Michelle than her newly unveiled portrait.
Sadly some whites have moved beyond self-loathing to being a complete cuckstain:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27071/leftist-sent-single-stupidest-tweet-human-history-ben-shapiro
@ ex-NYer,
Be careful out there. Salt your sidewalk and trust no weather report.
Over the weekend it was forecast to be in the fifties, instead it was not even 30 degrees with ice everywhere.
If you had lived around vibrant diversity they would have walked past and went to steal anything valuable.
Archie Bunker
A unique take on the painting with some good comments:
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2018/02/13/gods/
There are two aspects to this story: art and politics.
ART:
So called 'Fine Art' is thoroughly corrupt. What was once called art - just doesn't exist anymore. At one time - in say Renaissance Italy - an artist was a kind of public intellectual. Leonardo is not the best example but he is the best known. A better example would be Brunelleschi who painted, sculpted, built buildings and fortifications, invented all sorts of original machines and made major scientific contributions. But today if an 'artist' were to show capabilities in another field they would become suspect to the art world. Artists are expected to be unworldly, which roughly means they are expected to be an ignorant doofus.
We had a young woman employee once who was an art student. She was a graduate student at the local art school. One day I asked her to design a business card for our little enterprise. I showed her how to draw on the computer using tools like Photoshop and Corel Draw. I showed her how to use b-splines to draw smooth shapes. These were among the simplest art-like programs I had. I myself was using 3D photo-realist software and I was pretty certain she couldn't handle that. It turned out that she couldn't handle anything. She couldn't even sketch with a pencil.
But we went to her art school exhibition to see her award winning creations. It was a box filled with what looked like pubic hair on which there were excretions. It was not just ugly but also disgusting. She was praised for this garbage because it was sure to revolt any normal person.
That's art today.
POLITICS:
I don't suppose that any black person cares about my advice but here it is anyway.
Don't keep fantasizing about a genocide of whites. That is surely the path to a genocide of blacks.
Since WWII we think of the Jews when we think of genocide. But today most of us now realize that there have been many genocides and the Nazi attempt at extermination of the Jews is only the best publicized.
The Jews have been very jealous of genocide stories. They used to write bitter attacks on anyone who might suggest that any other group was ever systematically
killed or that the total number of Jews killed was any other number than six million. Someone once claimed that the real figure was not six million but rather five and a half million. The outcry was huge. It was called revisionism or anti-Semitism. This was only about thirty years ago.
Toady the Nazi-Jewish holocaust fits in a whole list of similar events. The Holomodor (Soviet extermination of the Ukrainians) is usually said to be about eight million. The Chinese at least twice in this century killed many tens of millions of their own people. The Jewish holocaust it now seems clear was not the largest. Nor the most cruel or the most intense. The Nazis tried to cover up there extermination efforts while the Ugandans publicly enlisted regular citizens to murder their neighbors with machetes.
Scipio Amelianus salted the ground at Carthage in an effort to eradicate all Carthaginians for all time. The Romans may have also killed a greater proportion of living Jews than the Nazis managed. Before the Second Jewish War the Jews were one of the most populous ethnic groups in the Mediterranean. Their numbers have never recovered.
Genocide has been a tool available to all cultures for thousands of years. If the black minority in this white majority nation really want to consider systematic race based genocide they are being very foolish. The advanced races (whites and Asians) are a lot better at killing than Africans or other primitive peoples. They are better organized.
It would be better for blacks to keep race based genocide as 'unthinkable'.
Pat
Mr. Rational said... Now to un-do his legacy, starting with declaring his eligibility for office void and removing every last one of his hires and appointments.
I think this applies to any conservative Republican that comes into office after any Democrat at this point. It is not just Obama. There must be a strong preference to get rid of the holdovers. Not getting rid of them is like pulling the top of a weed off without pulling/killing the roots.
I didn't think it was possible, but I continue to gain a greater and greater appreciation for how catastrophic a Hillary win would have been.
It is conceivable that Trump might end up being the greatest president since Reagan. If so, Obama's legacy will suffer the same fate as Carter's: the legacy of a presidency that was poor standing on its own will be made notably worse by the success of the presidency that followed it.
(Oh, and as regards the Obama paintings... I like them. I think they look cartoonish and are therefore quite appropriate.)
You know, I'd like to get outraged, but this "portrait" is hardly any different than the massive calls for violence coming from Africans in America, or really from their string pullers. Consider the movies which have been coming out of Hollywood these last several years: Django, Birth of a Nation, Detroit, and now Black Panther. Add to this the non-stop anti-White agitprop coming out of Hollywood, academia and the news media. And Obama's open support for the BLM movement.
As I say, it is a race war, but a most peculiar one because only one side is fighting. For your average Blue Pill YT, they do not even recognize that war has been declared against them. Well, there are always 500 channels of telescreen plus the local multiplex movie mall. And perhaps they can take the family for a stroll to the nearest portrait gallery.
As for those who can see:
Stay armed, stay alert.
Judith and Holofernes. What a crock of crap. Does anyone actually believe this rationalization nonsense?
Truer words have never been written.
Trump has been very slow to do that and it's disturbing to say the least.
The portraits of Barry and Moochelle are both pieces of crap, which is fitting in that they depict two people who are peices of crap.
You want a sort of a play on the "kill whitey" thing: Kill, Whitey.
re: "a third grader can do better" -- A third grader will actually paint his own background, not glue some dollar-store wallpaper to the canvas.
The times, they are uh changin.
Barry Soetoro and the former Michael Robinson don't like to waste an opportunity to be national and worldwide laughingstocks and now they can be forever remembered as the clueless incompetent affirmative action hacks that they are.
As for the couple being universally loved (LOL!) how did that work out for Hillary?
It gets better- "artist" doesn't actually paint his works-
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/racist-verified-obamas-portrait-artist-hires-cheap-chinese-labor-paint-work-says-kill-whitey-major-theme/
How apropos- gay phony hack "paints" portrait of gay phony hack
Even better-
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27081/did-obama-portrait-artist-paint-sperm-his-face-joseph-curl
This just in from the Africans in America news bureau...
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/philly-school-paying-kids-peace-20180211.html
... He’s part of an eighth-grade class whose principal is attempting an unusual and, some would say, audacious experiment: If Mikel and his 32 classmates make it to graduation with no physical altercations, each gets a $100 bill.
Well, I suppose that a C-note a head is going to be cheaper than the moneys which taxpayers would have to otherwise fork out for prison stays, emergency room visits, trashed classrooms and other forms of enrichment. Still, paying students to not fight does reek of Danegeld, the Dark Ages practice of bribing off raiders to prevent them from pillaging your monasteries and villages.
The school's "audacious experiment" has to be seen as part of the bigger spectrum of rackets which define BRA.
Nice downtown you got there, YT, don't want to see it burned out by BLM? Better hand over some grants and midnight basketball courts. How about that well manicured university green, you DWL administrators, don't want militants running amok on it? Time to pay out some special "programs" for Africans in America. That Buy-the-World-a-Coke(tm) corporate image? Don't want the Sharpton-Jackson syndicate busting it up? Sign over more grants and create "diversity" hire slots.
The dilemma is that once you start paying Danegeld, it doesn't end until the raiders have taken over the show and tossed you out on the curb.
That's why the most important word for YT in dealing with Africans in America is: "NO!"
Something to think about in the continuing chaos...
Both portraits have the same quality of artwork as a black velvet painting/throw blanket one finds at flea markets or gas stations in the shit hole parts of town.
Weren't Whitehouse portraits supposed to reflect the dignity of the House?
The comments on that article are great.
The "portraits" are undignified, amateurish, gaudy, sloppy...an accurate portrayal and very fitting.
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Brian in Ohio said...The Panama Canal. That Carter gave away, now commies can ship nukes thru it.
True, but still a feat of engineering that blacks could never comprehend, let alone accomplish.
Stay alert, stay alive.
These portraits are perfect for the Obamas. Tacky, and completely un-American, like them.
Honestly I`m surprised his wasn't done in some tin pot dictator uniform with a bunch of fake medals, like Idi Amin. And I don't know who that is in the other painting. It`s sure as hell not Michelle.
This "art", and the artist they chose, are a not so subtle middle finger to white America.
They will be mocked relentlessly, as they should.
Stay alert, stay alive.
I can only speak for myself. Not everyone will take this, not by a long shot
These "portraits" are exactly what I would expect from an African homo painter. Looks like something I would find on the Atlantic City boardwalk, along side of Elvis paintings on velvet, discount incense and "Justus for Trayvon!" posters. Total amateurish "art", no doubt he was encouraged by many SJW teachers who thought he had real talent - meaning that the negro painter could quell the ambition to throw his own poo at the canvas to create "art".
That being said, where are all the white women who should now be fully aware that the homosexual "artist" has let the cat out of the bag that all white women are targets for assault, rape, and murder by negroes once the castration of the white males in our society has been complete? .....crickets.... White women are perhaps the single most hated object of the negro and his (((overlords))). Does anyone remember Nicole Simpson? Or the fact that the good Revrun Martin looter Kang liked to beat up his white female prostitutes?
If and when it comes to that, I will enjoy the fact that these virulent, white male hating feminists will come face to face with the violence, hatred, and murder that they have courted in pampering their favored pets. Just desserts with a dollup of whipped cream and a cherry on top. Enjoy, bitches!
Enjoy your New World Order, ladies. This is just a taste, no pun intended, of what your future without white male protection entails.....
https://www.infowars.com/criminologist-says-italian-teen-butchered-by-nigerian-migrant-could-have-been-eaten/
"...Wiley’s photo-realistic human figures," appear to me to be photo-montages; if so, no wonder. Could have been cobbled together with Photoshop and finished with a "paintify" filter. Has the Smithsonian bothered to check whether there is actually any paint present on the images, or are they "giclée" on a gesso substrate? Heh heh.
Your tax dollars at work!
"In keeping with his long-running style of painting black subjects in poses based on classic imagery from Western art and iconography, Wiley depicted Judith as a powerful black woman. His reasons for keeping Holofernes white and changing the general into a woman remain less clear."
So if someone painted Bathhouse Barry into a scene from a Step n Fechit movie, or portrays Michelle atop the Empire State Building swatting airplanes, no hurt feelings, ok?
Once more we can state the obvious: YT has given Africans in America everything they have demanded for over half a century: the end of segregation, open housing, affirmative action, war on poverty, positive images on the telescreen, a Section 8 residence smack dab in the suburbs, midnight basketball, free school lunches (plus breakfasts and dinners), nlack "history" month, "space to destroy" then $100 to act like a civilized human being in school, and let us not forget their Big Man in the Oval Office teleprompter reader chair, 2009 to 2017.
And what has YT gotten in return?
Agitprop calling for blacks to decapitate White people.
How's them civil rites working for you, YT?
There is going to have to be a fight at some point with the whites who push the BRA narrative and their pets. The pets will take a Massive hit by whites simply not paying their taxes during this conflict.
I couldn't find any comments. Rats.
Everything he said was absolutely true. Anonymous or not, the truth is the same.
Even blacks themselves agree. There's an entire cottage industry of black guys online talking about how ugly/undesirable female blacks are.
The white women you speak of are at sites like Celebitchy, where they are absolutely fawning over these portraits and crying about how much they miss the Obamas. They're also either delicately ignoring the white hatred, or agreeing with the black commenters there, who never miss an opportunity to bash white people and white women. One of the writers for the site is half white half (dot) Indian and every single post of hers is taking a swipe at whites. It's interesting to see the mentality of these types, and scary. Especially some of the regulars, like the almost 40 year old cat lady who just had an abortion of her (likely white) child because she couldn't give it a good enough life, despite her being an educated professional with a boyfriend willing to marry her. Probably a small mercy for the poor angel, as she loves black lives matter marches and all sorts of social justice nonsense. Of course, it's incomprehensible to me, my fourth white child lies in his cradle sleeping as I type this. The future belongs to the whites that show up, so if you can....HAVE MANY WHITE BABIES and raise them to know the truth about race. We can win this.
I love all your posts! White women will be a commodity traded by blacks. Black males love white women for self gratification. Black women hate white women because white women are the gold standard of beauty!
The artist forgot to put a copy of the constitution under Obamas feet.
And America believes - above all Occidental America - that which is ISIS is terrifying............
Each and every day the ruthless, vicious negro demonstrate all the more with near divine fiat no less, what they inherently are. Wake up and defy this unconscionable latter day Hominoidea license to kill..........
@Pat Boyle 9:37 AM 13 Feb
Pat: find a copy of “Against Our Better Judgement” and check out www.IfAmericaKnew.org.
Take your blood pressure medicine before you start reading.
He doesn't have a penchant for decapitating whites - he actually fantasizes about it.
Watching how these two despicable racist creatures conducted themselves for those 8 long years proves unequivocally exactly how and why the races will NEVER successfully integrate. Only black designers, black staff, black entertainers invited to White House, big black attitude too!! Yet I'm racist if I did something comparable. Nope, the races will NEVER coexist.
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