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Message started by FormerlyLostArtist on 02/12/18 at 16:20:03

Title: on the Artistsy side
Post by FormerlyLostArtist on 02/12/18 at 16:20:03

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-portrait/obama-unveils-official-portraits-jokes-about-wifes-hotness-idUSKBN1FW250

http://https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_07/2325531/180212-barack-obama-portrait-unveil-njs-1049a_610929c575975506b79a4420b6bf8707.nbcnews-ux-1024-900.jpg

kinda cool, some style

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/13/18 at 15:12:02

https://www.snopes.com/kehinde-wiley-painted-black-woman-severed-head/

Interesting themes

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by FormerlyLostArtist on 02/13/18 at 15:42:10

interesting yes, darning, no, and the only thing those have in common is that they both have bushes in the background... is that enough? idk

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/13/18 at 15:45:58

A white guy paints a white woman decapitating a black woman and Trump hires him.
If that's okay, then this is.

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by FormerlyLostArtist on 02/13/18 at 16:02:20

091610170A0D3C0C3C04161A51630 wrote:

A white guy paints a white woman decapitating a black woman and Trump hires him.
If that's okay, then this is.

idk, not the same power dynamics in play there.

and did you actually read the snopes you posted??

only 2 of this artist's work does that..

this is about a power play, between minorities and their historical roles in the world.

if it was a white guy decapitating a black person, well, that just re-enforces a horrible real life history and doesn't play with it to turn it around to make you think about it.

a white person decapitating a black person is a celebration of a real life event, a black person decapitating a white person makes you think about the historical stereotype and why you hold that idea. cause of course in real life, many white people have been killed by black people, in many wars over the centuries, etc... but seeing the race reversal in a historical context is a statement on how does this reversal of power roles affect you. it might not affect you, that's fine, it might anger you, it might make you happy to see the reverse, it's all subjective. The artist isn't racist, he's trying (maybe failing) to make the historical race reversal make you think about how the powerful/winners affect historical and cultural norms.

it's more about role reversal than race, so like power dynamics, but yeah he uses race in it too, so like power dynamics through the cultural norms of race perception.

at least that's what I get out of this guy's work and that snopes article , but it could be something completely different, idk, I'm not the artist.

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 02/13/18 at 16:53:08

I understand what you are saying.
Still has the smell of double standard.
only 2 of this artist's work does tha

How many women do I abuse before I'm a bad guy?

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by Serowbot on 02/14/18 at 09:14:50

Hate to say it, but... I don't like either painting.
They both look washed out, and the dress and foliage overwhelm the subjects.

I want a do-over...

What the hell is Obama doing sitting in a bunch of privets?... :-/

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by T And T Garage on 02/14/18 at 10:09:08

Not a big fan of them either.

Although hannity said there was a sexually hidden message?
(lol - what an idiot)

Title: Re: on the Artistsy side
Post by raydawg on 02/14/18 at 10:10:09

Well what I derive from this "interpretation" is that I'm thinking Trump wants this artist to paint him too....

And Tweeters instruction to the painter just might be, "Make my hands as BIG as Bo's" ;D

Michelle's head looks too small for all the brain she says she has :o