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2018-02-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Some of Obama's portrait artist's other work reported to be a bit troubling

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Both portraits look like cheap photoshopped kid stuff.

I think the general shoddiness of the portraits is a perfect commentary on both of them.

Twitter has had a field day with these "portraits"

Will the National Portrait Gallery take them down after Zero is convicted of treason?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-13 11:10|| 2018-02-13 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Not impressed either. You get a better one from any street artist on Montmartre in 15 minutes

Posted by European Conservative 2018-02-13 11:53|| 2018-02-13 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 They should have gotten Sabbo to do a portrait. His Ted Cruz is assume.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-02-13 12:55|| 2018-02-13 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 An insolent man of Mongolia,
Possessed by a cute melancholia,
Would give us the finger,
Then, grinning, would linger
Till covered in P. quinquefolia.

Sabo. Heh. Or Dubya. He's probably pretty good by now.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-13 13:33|| 2018-02-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 #SPOD Ignoring for the moment, all the questions about "O's" origins, one has to wonder if "O's" election was rigged back in 2008 in light of all the rigging that went on with Hildo.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-02-13 13:45|| 2018-02-13 13:45|| Front Page Top

Can spot the portrait that appears slightly out of place ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-13 13:55|| 2018-02-13 13:55|| Front Page Top

#7 "One of these things is not like the other"

Posted by Frank G 2018-02-13 15:15|| 2018-02-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 First impressions of Obammy's pitcher:
1) Is that Clint Eastwood's chair he is siting on?
2) the floral background would be right at home as a Dorothy and Toto backdrop, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Regarding Moochelle's:

Never saw a cleanshaven Wookie before.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-02-13 15:48|| 2018-02-13 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 As I recall, the JFK and Bill Clinton portraits were also non-classic in style. The Bill Clinton pixelated face is a bit of a horror; the Obama is merely insipid and sentimental. And executed at a good high school student level, but that's a separate issue. The Obamas wanted artists about whom there is a buzz, particularly in the African-American community, and that's exactly what they got.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-02-13 16:16|| 2018-02-13 16:16|| Front Page Top

#10 re #8 - You know, Rantburg really needs Like/Haha/Wow buttons like Facebook.

USN Ret - now that is funny.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-02-13 16:54|| 2018-02-13 16:54|| Front Page Top

#11 A Cheech and Chong 60s type phsycodelic portrait. A chumb gang hippy who became President.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-02-13 19:06|| 2018-02-13 19:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Or at most the biblical Serpent in Americas Garden of Eden.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-02-13 19:13|| 2018-02-13 19:13|| Front Page Top

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