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Is this who you would want to paint your official portrait?

bad choice in my opinion. Artist Kehinde Wiley likes to paint portraits of black women beheading white women. speaks volumes.

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jim44444 · 70-79, M Best Comment
The symbolism of artistic works usually escapes me. Just show me what you are trying to say. I have no desire to try to decipher the artist's mind.

Not withstanding her art that you presented, I thought the portraits were terrible, almost cartoonish.
Why not just take a picture?
katielass · F
@jim44444 Pics would have been cartoonish too.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@jim44444 jim, i totally agree. Obama's at least looked like him but michelle's was terrible.

JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
yo, do you even know the story behind Judith? thats what the title of the painting is.
JarJarBoom · 41-45, F
@akindheart well, guess when you are an artist you can take whatever license you want with the story...then again...it could be a woman that is holofernes..then you go the next level of what exactly is being conveyed. Which I don't really feel like thinking right now..
akindheart · 61-69, F
@JarJarBoom i hear you. it is mind boggling to think of all the hatred going on right now.
daydeeo · 61-69, M
@JarJarBoom but the artist said that the painting was his "take on Kill Whitey". Not much room for interpretation there.
Brawny · 46-50, M
She painted an Obama I didn't recognize.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@Brawny he looks better than his wife and they are so big!!!
daydeeo · 61-69, M
I thought he did capture accurately the aspect of the former president living in his little fantasy world.
President Obama looks fine but the background is hideous. Mrs.Obama's portrait doesn't even resemble her
akindheart · 61-69, F
@FreeSpirit1 that is what i said. i thought obama looked like himself but sitting in that chair...and you are right...michelle doesn't even closely resemble her.
SW-User
i wouldn’t mind her painting my beheading, that would be pretty cool actually
akindheart · 61-69, F
@SW-User ask Mary Queen of Scots. her beheading didn't go so well.
SW-User
@akindheart i know, so cool
akindheart · 61-69, F
@SW-User too each their own!
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
akindheart · 61-69, F
@MartinTheFirst me either
SW-User
Looks like she only paints women without dicks. So that's that.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@SW-User add the word white in there
SW-User
@akindheart *Look like she only paints women without dicks. So that's that. White
katielass · F
Why doesn't someone paint oblamo's head sitting in a jar of urine. And that butt ugly fat ass wife of his can have her head sitting in a pile of shit.

 
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