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The Obama’s Portraits - Do you like them? [W:12]

Do you like them?

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JMR said:
I wonder how much conversation there was about previous portraits? Did anyone even know they existed? Really, they were for the most part quite mediocre.

One of the aspects of art is to provoke thought and conversation, so I would suggest that these are the first portraits to do that...so they are a remarkable success.
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It's funny how you start your post lamenting about there's a coversation about these portraits, then go on to say how awesome it is that these portraits provoke conversation. You also don't seem to like any part of the conversation that doesn't agree fully with you about the sheer awesomeness of these paintings. If you support the conversation the paintings provoke, you gotta be ok with people expressing thoughts about them you disagree with, instead you're almost defensive about it, as if you painted them yourself.
 
Let's see, if this were a primary election, "Really dislike them both" and "couldn't care less" would be headed to a run off.
 
JMR said:
I admit that I liked the Obamas. I also don't see any need for contemporary artists to make believe they are painting in the 19th century when doing portraits. Time marches on.
I like Michelle's portrait very much. I think Barack Obama's portrait looks very much like him, but I'm not wild about the greenery.

I'm assuming the political statement you refer to and dislike is that these portraits are "different" ?
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No, they are disrespectful and false in their concepts. The Obama picture would be more realistic is he were in a field of marijuana plants and her would be more realistic if it actually looked like her, not some self aggrandized picture of an idealized version of this person.
 
X Factor said:
It's funny how you start your post lamenting about there's a coversation about these portraits, then go on to say how awesome it is that these portraits provoke conversation. You also don't seem to like any part of the conversation that doesn't agree fully with you about the sheer awesomeness of these paintings. If you support the conversation the paintings provoke, you gotta be ok with people expressing thoughts about them you disagree with, instead you're almost defensive about it, as if you painted them yourself.
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I missed where I lamented that there's conversation about these portraits? My first post questioned whether there was conversation about the previous presidential portraits.

I have no problem with people disagreeing, just trying to stay on the subject of whether or not it is the art we are discussing or bad feelings about the Obamas.
 
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