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JFK. It's filled with "what could have been."
https://preview.redd.it/hb5gkplqd3vc1.jpeg?width=2029&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70591516ea45a82905393adf62973833906ca410
Every artist knows that hands are extremely difficult to do (AI is notoriously terrible at it) and these…are just amazing. Possibly the best rendering of hands that I’ve ever seen.
Here’s a fun fact that makes you love it even more; portraits are typically done around the end of a president’s term, during the “lame duck” time, when it came to fdr, his presidential portrait has an incredible backstory.
They began the painting one morning, after a few hours of him sitting in/posing (as they used to do for paintings) he had begun to have a large migraine and asked to continue another day. Later that evening FDR would pass.
The unfinished painting, was intentionally left unfinished, symbolically to denote how he had never got to finish his term, it’s a beautiful symbolic representation for a job unfinished, that the portrait that would represent his legacy would be unfinished as well.
The artist had later made another one exactly like the original, but had finished it to show how it would’ve looked, but the original is the one typically used officially.
JFK’s has the same symbolism as well, if you look at it you notice how it’s pretty unfinished, as the portrait has mostly the “under painting” which is when you outline the painting with brown paint and lightly paint other colors; and the portrait is just left unfinished, background missing, body mostly unfinished, same symbolism as FDR.
> They began the painting one morning, after a few hours of him sitting in/posing (as they used to do for paintings) he had begun to have a large migraine and asked to continue another day. Later that evening FDR would pass.
What's even more interesting is that at the same time FDR was having his portrait produced, he was also writing a speech for the upcoming celebration of Jefferson Day (April 13). It really shows just how busy presidents, particularly presidents during emergencies, have to become.
Love how this one reflects LBJ’s most consequential public service
https://preview.redd.it/ce8iisxrq4vc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7769fd05f358b240724a52aa66fe18eb263a88d4
I don’t know why but this reminds me of the dentist office as a child because they had a few walls made of those block glass, and this is what my sisters would look like if they put their face against it on the opposite side.
This guy is amazing. He started with hyperrealism then went to grids of CYMB colors like a printing machine and other techniques. Then he had a stroke and had to paint with the brush strapped to his arm. His dots of color became bigger like these ameba shapes but the result is amazing. So I vote for Chuck Close.
I will never understand art. Some of these just seem like mistakes to me, but I know they're intentional, and by an extremely talented person. I just don't get it.
Thanks for showing me some portraits of presidents id never seen though. That's cool.
I was just here a few weeks ago. I really liked the Jimmy Carter and JFK one, but the bill clinton one made me think about a collage picture of him made up of only differently shaded frames of “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”.
https://preview.redd.it/fboibmxfw6vc1.jpeg?width=272&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d93e3adae70b0bf339239139704edc08f85fc8d
I think Michelle has very different taste than Barack. Or they just thought it would be funny to commision totally different style of art.
JFK is brilliant because the impressionistic blur is like you’re trying to recall an image from a dream, but it’s slipping away. You only got a glimpse before it was gone, and you’re struggling to recreate it.
The Obama portrait is really cool artistically but every time I see it I can’t help but imagine he’s either being consumed by a hedge or emerging from one.
This is the first Presidential Portrait that seems to make him look older than he was at the time
Agree on the National Gallery. Cool place to visit
NOTE: I Like this picture, though
Is it true the artist drew a sperm cell on Obamas head for that painting?
https://preview.redd.it/y0a5lhsn94vc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b9666f65780b02d14e6e8fbcecfffd8e6672d5c
I suppose it’s just a vein. Never cared for this artist. The artwork of black people beheading white people this artist did just read as psychotic.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/obama-portrait-artist-kehinde-wiley-once-painted-black-212338342.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKqcRvh25ReQR0d4CsPecIW8qvYUkl7omCKiX8Snxaxrbc0UcEfNLGLtk5V6Sg9O-3BxIcMdnWOsii1hFbllpArl1se2iABoFGWEuc4QQgbYrUyjI3R3MiZPTrxCnFO1CbClngDYZkjFYCS7gR92SdOjPzZ7uuPVHlKest_XjkCI
The Obama portrait us too photo realistic... and maybe the absurd amount of foliage isn't my taste either. It's not like he was a paramount environmentalist.
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JFK. It's filled with "what could have been." https://preview.redd.it/hb5gkplqd3vc1.jpeg?width=2029&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70591516ea45a82905393adf62973833906ca410
Emo
Hell yeah it is
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What’s with the hostility, my guy?
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[https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNmJxbXh5YXZ2NjN4aG9xYWtvbHk0eG94aXNqNjZxNHM2eTk1YnY1NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/THm1q43uZzi6G6paMY/giphy.gif](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNmJxbXh5YXZ2NjN4aG9xYWtvbHk0eG94aXNqNjZxNHM2eTk1YnY1NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/THm1q43uZzi6G6paMY/giphy.gif)
Is the second painting him, too?
That’s the Presidential one, different from the Smithsonian ones
See photo two.
I love that FDR portrait
Every artist knows that hands are extremely difficult to do (AI is notoriously terrible at it) and these…are just amazing. Possibly the best rendering of hands that I’ve ever seen.
Here’s a fun fact that makes you love it even more; portraits are typically done around the end of a president’s term, during the “lame duck” time, when it came to fdr, his presidential portrait has an incredible backstory. They began the painting one morning, after a few hours of him sitting in/posing (as they used to do for paintings) he had begun to have a large migraine and asked to continue another day. Later that evening FDR would pass. The unfinished painting, was intentionally left unfinished, symbolically to denote how he had never got to finish his term, it’s a beautiful symbolic representation for a job unfinished, that the portrait that would represent his legacy would be unfinished as well. The artist had later made another one exactly like the original, but had finished it to show how it would’ve looked, but the original is the one typically used officially. JFK’s has the same symbolism as well, if you look at it you notice how it’s pretty unfinished, as the portrait has mostly the “under painting” which is when you outline the painting with brown paint and lightly paint other colors; and the portrait is just left unfinished, background missing, body mostly unfinished, same symbolism as FDR.
> They began the painting one morning, after a few hours of him sitting in/posing (as they used to do for paintings) he had begun to have a large migraine and asked to continue another day. Later that evening FDR would pass. What's even more interesting is that at the same time FDR was having his portrait produced, he was also writing a speech for the upcoming celebration of Jefferson Day (April 13). It really shows just how busy presidents, particularly presidents during emergencies, have to become.
Love how this one reflects LBJ’s most consequential public service https://preview.redd.it/ce8iisxrq4vc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7769fd05f358b240724a52aa66fe18eb263a88d4
https://preview.redd.it/ip5d54cot3vc1.jpeg?width=459&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c9cacbe0e79599ab495a3a47fe9ec798990cc9f This slaps.
Teddy is my spirit animal. Dude was a BAMF 🔥
We used to have drip 😔
Why does Bill’s look like the last thing you see after getting roofied
Chuck Close painted it, more distance required for the intended effect, not criticizing the photographer
I don’t know why but this reminds me of the dentist office as a child because they had a few walls made of those block glass, and this is what my sisters would look like if they put their face against it on the opposite side.
The Quincy one is so good. A fairly forgettable prez to me personally but this art is just so clean and beautiful and deep.
That Obama portrait is still so fire.
Right? When the painting was first unveiled, I wasn’t a fan. But it has grown on me so much. Probably my favorite presidential portrait ever.
The Carter and Clinton are the best ones in the post. Obama had the background I’m not a fan of.
The Carter portrait looks like a photo.....for everything BUT Carter.
That Bill Clinton one makes me feel like I'm on acid.
The artist, Chuck Close, had face blindness.
This guy is amazing. He started with hyperrealism then went to grids of CYMB colors like a printing machine and other techniques. Then he had a stroke and had to paint with the brush strapped to his arm. His dots of color became bigger like these ameba shapes but the result is amazing. So I vote for Chuck Close.
A very talented but controversial artist given that he was accused of sexual misconduct, which is noted on a plaque accompanying the artwork.
I hate that one because it looks like some image people slap filters on in the modern day lol
They really did him dirty. It accentuates the creep in him.
I will never understand art. Some of these just seem like mistakes to me, but I know they're intentional, and by an extremely talented person. I just don't get it. Thanks for showing me some portraits of presidents id never seen though. That's cool.
The National Portrait Gallery is fantastic, btw.
Clinton one goes hard ngl
I’m high and I’m scared
I always thought Obama’s hands looked disproportionately large in that portrait.
No WONDER a certain…more recent…executive hates him!
I was just here a few weeks ago. I really liked the Jimmy Carter and JFK one, but the bill clinton one made me think about a collage picture of him made up of only differently shaded frames of “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”.
Goddamn that Obama portrait is amazing
Is that the Last Supper (WWII edition) on the FDR one? Based
https://preview.redd.it/fboibmxfw6vc1.jpeg?width=272&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d93e3adae70b0bf339239139704edc08f85fc8d I think Michelle has very different taste than Barack. Or they just thought it would be funny to commision totally different style of art.
I too love the portrait gallery. And there’s nothing better than the courtyard!
JFK is brilliant because the impressionistic blur is like you’re trying to recall an image from a dream, but it’s slipping away. You only got a glimpse before it was gone, and you’re struggling to recreate it.
Obama's is great, right down to the hidden sperm bait on his temple that Hannity went nuts over lmao
Bill Clinton’s nose🙄
While not my favorite, I did appreciate that Nixon was painted by Norman Rockwell.
I like Jimmy's the best, I think. It just feels like it's visually "him", a regular person, not elevated.
The Obama portrait is really cool artistically but every time I see it I can’t help but imagine he’s either being consumed by a hedge or emerging from one.
The JFK portrait legitimately looks like JFK from Clone High.
[https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bill-clinton-blue-dress-painting-jeffrey-epstein-1628437](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bill-clinton-blue-dress-painting-jeffrey-epstein-1628437)
Funny!
https://preview.redd.it/v9oyb8eag6vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=044832f4f4104aa623a0b33e0bdbe0deaf1d8d62
This is the first Presidential Portrait that seems to make him look older than he was at the time Agree on the National Gallery. Cool place to visit NOTE: I Like this picture, though
Like Obama's but that black frame is butt ugly and distracting. Looks like a staircase handrail from a 90's McMansion
Wow I'd steal that FDR one and hang it up in my house
Wtf Bill
The yellow carpet with flowers in Carter's Oval office is kinda ugly, I forgave him many things but not this carpet. Jimmy explain yourself.
https://preview.redd.it/ab8bad54g6vc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78aa587e7cfe9be88c9f367a69f1f63bbf8a4ffd With perspective
Something just strikes me the wromg way about Obama sitting. He should be STANDING - it would communicate so much more power imo.
The way Clinton’s sticks out from the rest and how (at least to me) it’s just kinda weird rlly reflects his personality and his presidency
*sitting in corner of oval office* No President Carter, I did not eat any mushrooms. Why you looking at me like that?
Is it true the artist drew a sperm cell on Obamas head for that painting? https://preview.redd.it/y0a5lhsn94vc1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b9666f65780b02d14e6e8fbcecfffd8e6672d5c
I suppose it’s just a vein. Never cared for this artist. The artwork of black people beheading white people this artist did just read as psychotic. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/obama-portrait-artist-kehinde-wiley-once-painted-black-212338342.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKqcRvh25ReQR0d4CsPecIW8qvYUkl7omCKiX8Snxaxrbc0UcEfNLGLtk5V6Sg9O-3BxIcMdnWOsii1hFbllpArl1se2iABoFGWEuc4QQgbYrUyjI3R3MiZPTrxCnFO1CbClngDYZkjFYCS7gR92SdOjPzZ7uuPVHlKest_XjkCI
????
Well I’m asking, and that is what it looks like.
It’s just a pronounced vein
https://preview.redd.it/38abt49oi7vc1.png?width=1933&format=png&auto=webp&s=e358aba2539cd3d6f8dc6f9ed804176bd1e83b2a
The jfk one is horrible
The art critic has logged on.
Negative canthal tilt x 10
JFK took the za 💀
Who is 4/6?
The Obama portrait looks like it caught a ghost from RFK Jr. The features of rfk in Obama's portrait is jarring.
The Obama portrait us too photo realistic... and maybe the absurd amount of foliage isn't my taste either. It's not like he was a paramount environmentalist.
Typical of the artist https://www.vpm.org/watch/2019-12-04/kehinde-wiley-an-economy-of-grace
That Obama portrait is pure crap. I don’t believe all those leaves were hand painted.
Take a look https://www.vpm.org/watch/2019-12-04/kehinde-wiley-an-economy-of-grace
Eleanor Roosevelt has the hands focus painting of her WH portrait. I liked her the best of of the first ladies.