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In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It doesn\u2019t take #BlackLivesMatter consciousness to see the significance of this racial lineup within the national story as told by the Portrait Gallery. Some of the earliest presidents represented \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson \u2014 were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama\u2019s great-great-grandparents were slaves. And today we\u2019re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALSO READ:\u00a0Kehinde Wiley Questions History With New Sculpture At Times Square<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t take #BlackLivesMatter consciousness to see the significance of this racial lineup within the national story as told by the Portrait Gallery. Some of the earliest presidents represented \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson \u2014 were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama\u2019s great-great-grandparents were slaves. And today we\u2019re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both artists have addressed the politics of race consistently in their past work, and both have done so in subtly savvy ways in these new commissions. Mr. Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker. Ms. Sherald\u2019s image of Mrs. Obama overemphasizes an element of couturial spectacle, but also projects a rock-solid cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALSO READ:\u00a0Kehinde Wiley Questions History With New Sculpture At Times Square<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t take #BlackLivesMatter consciousness to see the significance of this racial lineup within the national story as told by the Portrait Gallery. Some of the earliest presidents represented \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson \u2014 were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama\u2019s great-great-grandparents were slaves. And today we\u2019re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only are the Obamas the first African-American presidential couple to be enshrined in the collection. The painters they picked to portray them are Nigerian-American Kehinde Wiley<\/a> for Obama's portrait and African American Amy Sherald<\/a>, for Mrs. Obama's portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both artists have addressed the politics of race consistently in their past work, and both have done so in subtly savvy ways in these new commissions. Mr. Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker. Ms. Sherald\u2019s image of Mrs. Obama overemphasizes an element of couturial spectacle, but also projects a rock-solid cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALSO READ:\u00a0Kehinde Wiley Questions History With New Sculpture At Times Square<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t take #BlackLivesMatter consciousness to see the significance of this racial lineup within the national story as told by the Portrait Gallery. Some of the earliest presidents represented \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson \u2014 were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama\u2019s great-great-grandparents were slaves. And today we\u2019re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only are the Obamas the first African-American presidential couple to be enshrined in the collection. The painters they picked to portray them are Nigerian-American Kehinde Wiley<\/a> for Obama's portrait and African American Amy Sherald<\/a>, for Mrs. Obama's portrait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both artists have addressed the politics of race consistently in their past work, and both have done so in subtly savvy ways in these new commissions. Mr. Wiley depicts Mr. Obama not as a self-assured, standard-issue bureaucrat, but as an alert and troubled thinker. Ms. Sherald\u2019s image of Mrs. Obama overemphasizes an element of couturial spectacle, but also projects a rock-solid cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALSO READ:\u00a0Kehinde Wiley Questions History With New Sculpture At Times Square<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t take #BlackLivesMatter consciousness to see the significance of this racial lineup within the national story as told by the Portrait Gallery. Some of the earliest presidents represented \u2014 George Washington, Thomas Jefferson \u2014 were slaveholders; Mrs. Obama\u2019s great-great-grandparents were slaves. And today we\u2019re seeing more and more evidence that the social gains of the civil rights, and Black Power, and Obama eras are, with a vengeance, being rolled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an imposingly scaled painting \u2014 just over seven feet tall \u2014 Wiley presents Mr. Obama dressed in the regulation black suit and an open-necked white shirt, and seated on a vaguely thronelike chair not so different from the one seen in Stuart\u2019s Washington portrait. But art historical references stop there. So do tonal echoes of past portraits. Whereas Mr. Obama\u2019s predecessors are, to the man, shown expressionless and composed, Mr. Obama sits tensely forward, frowning, elbows on his knees, arms crossed, as if listening hard. No smiles, no Mr. Nice Guy. He\u2019s still troubleshooting, still in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jare Ijalana (Photo by Mofe Bamuyiwa - BMBSTUDIO via Instagram) Beauty is in the eyes... Bayo Omoboriowo has had to pull himself up by the bootstraps in life. He hawked... Photo credit: picture-alliance/NurPhoto/A.Masiello Italy has elected its first black Senator, Nigeria born Toni Iwobi who... Ben Enwonwu/ Bonhams "Tutu" A famous painting that went missing for decades before turning... Artist Kehinde Wiley (L) and former U.S. President Barack Obama participate in the unveiling of...
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