Obama's Portraits -- Extra Fingers for Flipping People Off and Decapitated White Women

Obama's official portrait artist decided to give him an extra middle finger to flip off the middle class with.

Or did The Artist instead paint Obama's hands backwards, like a Rakshasa?

COME ONNNN!!!! #ObamaPortraits pic.twitter.com/ZtFtTtswR0
— Leslie ن (@LADowd) February 13, 2018

He also chose an artist who is very interested in painting black people brandishing the severed heads of white women.

The artist himself admits it's "a sort of a play on the 'Kill Whitey' thing."

Isn't that special.

Posted by: Ace at 02:52 PM

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Posted by: Surfperch at February 13, 2018 02:48 PM (ME7b2)

2 Stay out da bushes

Posted by: Orson-bot at February 13, 2018 02:48 PM (fLcMM)

3
He can't paint thumbs.
Also the background is photoshopped.
And Obama has a sperm cell on the right side of his head.

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 02:48 PM (Ij2U7)

4 What now?

Posted by: Surfperch at February 13, 2018 02:48 PM (ME7b2)

5 Beheaded white women on a nice floral background, though.

Posted by: huerfano at February 13, 2018 02:48 PM (EtMVh)

6 He also chose an artist who is very interested in painting black people brandishing the severed heads of white women.

The artist himself admits it's "a sort of a play on the 'Kill Whitey' thing."

Isn't that special.

Posted by Ace at 02:52 PM Comments

No no no, it's an homage to paintings of the bible story of Judith and Holofernes. The fact that it's black women decapitating white women is merely artistic license.

(Are you buying that?)

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 13, 2018 02:49 PM (RD7QR)

7 I find the decapitated white wymens particularly fearless.

- said no one with a brain

Posted by: fox at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (GmdGB)

8 He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (7HtZB)

9 But why isn't Obama on a bucking horse!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (W+vEI)

10 Can you imagine if some hand picked, white supremacist artist painted Trump's portrait what sort of play that would be getting with the mainstream media?

Posted by: Maritime at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (lKmt3)

11 My name for the Obama Portrait:

BUSH Did It

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (64Uc5)

12 Maybe it's a whatyoucallit allegory. He's Little Finger.

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (QJmys)

13 I was looking for someone with six fingers on his RIGHT hand.

Posted by: Inigo Montoya at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (QAOZh)

14 The head blood slightly contrasts with the overall color pallettes.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (r9UYA)

15 You didn't notice me for the entire presidency but when a crappy portrait comes out I'm the star of the show!

Posted by: Obama's Sixth Finger at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (ME7b2)

16 Next time just go to Sears Portraits and get one of him on a pony.

Posted by: Bruce at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (8ikIW)

17 8 He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.
Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (7HtZB)

Basically, the presidential portrait is Photoshopped? Claaaassssy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (RD7QR)

18 Seen better painting at the thrift store.

Posted by: PhilDirt at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (M20vx)

19 Gaybo moved to Beijing to shack up with his Chinese DJ boyfren.

It's who Obama is.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (5OEn4)

20 There's a line repeated in the Art Thread: "Hands cost extra" because it seems to be an issue with paid portraits - the artist not getting the hands right.

I have no idea how that fits in with the TFG portrait, only that....well, may be an indication of the artist's skill?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (W+vEI)

21 Maybe Obama has an abnormally long thumb!

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (QJmys)

22
Over at Hoft Gateway, the "artist" actually has a factory of slave laborers in China cranking out his schlock.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 02:52 PM (mbhDw)

23 AAA

Affirmative Action "Art".

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (TfPZx)

24 12 Maybe it's a whatyoucallit allegory. He's Little Finger.
Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 02:51 PM (QJmys)

Comey is Little Finger - a scheming weasel that will serve who ever is in power, just to keep climbing up the ladder.

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (7HtZB)

25 I will never get over these portraits. This is my future. This is the rest of my life, contemplating those portraits.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (QAOZh)

26 Six fingers is a dominant gene.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (64Uc5)

27 If Hillary had won, that prancing cocksucker face would be on the new Three Dollar Bill.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (r9UYA)

28 Finally the artist gave Obama a vagina crease

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (Ij2U7)

29 *Looks at hand*

Always knew Odumbo was an alien....I just didn't think he was that kind of alien

Posted by: Latemarch at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (ReE5g)

30 The beauty of these hideous portraits is that when its Trumps turn, no matter what is delivered, his will be much, much superior by comparison.

Personally, I like the illustration with him on top of a tank with a rifle.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (+IAze)

31 A place we can finally put all the jokes!

A compendium, if you will.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 02:53 PM (ycWCI)

32 Um, Leslie-Ann? If it were backwards and a thumb then the ring finger is in the wrong place.

It's all wrong, horrifically horribly wrong, all of which is appropriate.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (fuK7c)

33 >>He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.

Wait - he traced a photo in paint.
Isn't that like the painter's equivalent of training wheels?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (W+vEI)

34 He used this extra finger exclusively to pin blame on the GOP.

Posted by: Surfperch the historian at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (ME7b2)

35 C'mon. Obumbler is clearly flashing a gang sign.

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (vDqXW)

36 eeehhhh.....not so sure about this.
The chopped heads thing, yeah, that's something. But the hand...meh.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (0tfLf)

37 Also, unrelated, but seriously -- WHEN DOES THE NAUSEA FREAKING END? I'm not vomiting from my eyeballs anymore, but I still feel like it. It's 16 weeks in, kiddo. Get your act together.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (QAOZh)

38 Leslie Ann Down has major rackage.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (sjdRT)

39 This 'art' is almost as funny as the Chinese botching MLK's statue.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (r9UYA)

40 ... and those lovely pointed Vulcan ears

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (e8kgV)

41
I wanna see brush strokes.

Posted by: Dis Gruntled Po at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (ECDXs)

42 38 Leslie Ann Down has major rackage.
Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (sjdRT)

Well, had anyway. Is she a MILF?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (mbhDw)

43 Sperm on the side of his head from last thread!

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (y3aQB)

44 Actually the extra thumb is the alien parasite that controls Obama's brain. Ask me how I know this.

Posted by: The Greek Guy with the Hair at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (RD7QR)

45 Ok, the technical:

This seems like a juvenile, half-assed, lazy, amateurish, phoned in, ludicrous attempt at a presidential portrait.

Somehow fitting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (ycWCI)

46
Somebody post the SPERM link so Ace can update the thread.

It's real, and it's spectacular.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (2FqvZ)

47 Diogenes searched in wrong century for the narcissistic man

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (e8kgV)

48 You know who else had trouble painting hands?

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Exchange Your Old Wishful Thinking for a New Hopeful Shouting at The Outrage Outlet! at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (hLRSq)

49 Did they give him giant hands as a shot at Trump? Are they that petty and small minded? Did I just answer my own question?

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (64Uc5)

50

Leslie Ann Warren > Elizabeth Warren.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (mbhDw)

51 So bad, so hideously horrible. Both pictures.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (tcwn1)

52
A substandard and incompetent artist hired to do Barky's portrait?

That's pretty much par for the course with that grifter.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (pNxlR)

53 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (mbhDw)
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GILF????

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (y3aQB)

54 I'm not seeing an extra fingers, just some weird fat pad.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (QQ+il)

55 J.J. - all I know is what is in her Twitter profile.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (sjdRT)

56 Also, Michaell Obama has a freakish right hand is about twice the size of her head.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (UFgOG)

57 51
So bad, so hideously horrible. Both pictures.

Posted by: washrivergal

And subjects..

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (TfPZx)

58 So fitting that The Reign of Error is immortalized this way.

Posted by: pookysgirl at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (XKZwp)

59 http://bit.ly/2HcJo35
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Spermhead

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (y3aQB)

60 So, why isn't King Barry being sliced in half to kill off his Whitey Half?

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (WDCYi)

61 >>56 Also, Michaell Obama has a freakish right hand is about twice the size of her head.

Pimp hand?

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (r9UYA)

62 My sixth finger is my penis.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (3BFzK)

63 Those are some very effeminate digits - all 11 of them.

Posted by: SH at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (sX1BW)

64 Also looks like no wedding band. Looks like there is a mark from one, but no actual band.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (kUmUV)

65 The Crown has a fantastic ep about the infamous Graham Sutherland portrait of Churchill. That was my first thought after I saw the Obama portraits: the curse of modern art portraiture.

I bet the Obamas wish they could pull a lady Churchill and burn the darn things, but in their hubris they chose "woke" artists. To burn their work would be a hate crime. Hahahahaha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland%27s_Portrait_of_Winston_Churchill

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (hvf9s)

66 The hand is a hyrbid. Fingers are for left hand, thumb and wrist is for right hand. Left will telling us it is genius, maybe even a secret message.

Like "Paul is dead"

Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (MxEKc)

67 Reggie likes the extra thumb.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (64Uc5)

68 Dear me. I wanted to congratulate me for not looking at the hottie dressed to the nines at the accountants office. I am so by the book I impress myself. CC. Me.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (+1EJs)

69 Posted by: BJ Clinton at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (3BFzK)
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Or a Cigar

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (y3aQB)

70 Yeah, I think the thumb is the artist trying to impart the excess skin the president has which kind of hangs on his body.

It is a secret indictment against cocaine abuse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (ycWCI)

71 52
A substandard and incompetent artist hired to do Barky's portrait?

That's pretty much par for the course with that grifter.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (pNxlR)

And then Michello's painter said "Hold my beer."

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (7HtZB)

72 Sperm link. Hannity is on it.

http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/13/ fox-news-sean-hannity-just-accused- obamas-portrait-hiding-secret-sperm-click-zoom/

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (Ij2U7)

73 Weird how the thumbs are hidden.

Posted by: Megan Foxx at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (djCea)

74 They should have gone with this one

https://tinyurl.com/yb7wfoge

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (QQ+il)

75 Reminds me of the King of Queens episode where their friends purposely give Doug and Carrie a horrible portrait of themselves.

Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (LiyEm)

76 So we'll get Melania's body with Whoopie's head on it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (+1EJs)

77 I can understand the hand thing. The artist put just a bit too much definition into the fleshy part of Obama's hand, almost like Obama was pressing down on his leg too hard and making the heel of his hand (the Mount of Luna) bulge outward. In paint, this comes out looking like a sixth finger. And once you've seen it you can't UNsee it.

What is it with leftists and extra limbs and digits? First we had Reese Witherspoon's extra leg and Oprah Winfrey's extra hand, now Obama's extra finger.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (rP4OC)

78 So Obama and Michelle will be laughed at for the rest of history when people observe their official caricatures, er, portraits.

I can live with that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (UsCnO)

79 Had to give Barack an extra appendage to match Michelle's.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (64Uc5)

80 heh seventh finger is a cigar.

Posted by: BJ Clinton at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (3BFzK)

81 Well, I guess opposable thumbs are too difficult to portray. Holbein and VanDyke weep.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (MIKMs)

82 I saw Beheaded White Women open for NWA at the Joe Louis Arena in '88

Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (NWiLs)

83 "No no no, it's an homage to paintings of the bible story of Judith and Holofernes. The fact that it's black women decapitating white women is merely artistic license.

(Are you buying that?)"

I'm sorry sir, your race card was declined.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Exchange Your Old Wishful Thinking for a New Hopeful Shouting at The Outrage Outlet! at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (hLRSq)

84 I like the portraits. They suck just like the subject of said portraits.

It's really funny to see the paintings in the company
of the other Presidential portraits.

TOTAL SUCKAGE

Posted by: nip at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (ECLaL)

85 400 years a slave
KILL WHITEY KILL WHITEY
Racist coin toss
KILL WHITEY KILL WHITEY
All the live long day
KILL WHITEY KILL WHITEY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (+y/Ru)

86 8 He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.
Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (7HtZB)

Paint by the numbers?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (MjCfq)

87 To me it looks like the painter drew two right hands, and that hand on his left is therefore upside down, resting on the thumb.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (6FqZa)

88 But why isn't Obama on a bucking horse!?!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (W+vEI)

Cuz the horse said Buck No!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (z79tQ)

89 59 http://bit.ly/2HcJo35
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Spermhead
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM (y3aQB)

+++

Gross. I'm going to puke now.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (tcwn1)

90 He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.

Wait - he traced a photo in paint.
Isn't that like the painter's equivalent of training wheels?
Posted by: Lizzy

Paint by numbers and the technician setting up the canvas was dyslexic.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (f4vam)

91 64 Also looks like no wedding band. Looks like there is a mark from one, but no actual band.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 13, 2018 02:58 PM (kUmUV)

Doesn't his wedding band have the Shahada engraved onto it?

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (WDCYi)

92 >>74 They should have gone with this one

https://tinyurl.com/yb7wfoge

I cannot unsee that. Thanks.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (r9UYA)

93 Well, I guess opposable thumbs are too difficult to portray.

Opposable thumbs are probably kind of a sore point with the artist.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (MjCfq)

94 I'm not seeing an extra fingers, just some weird fat pad.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 02:57 PM

You're allowed to not see it. But once you see it, it can't be un-seen.

Take my word for it, it's there. Look at your own hands and do some counting.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 03:00 PM (2FqvZ)

95 Sperm link. Hannity is on it.

http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/13/ fox-news-sean-hannity-just-accused- obamas-portrait-hiding-secret-sperm-click-zoom

What? Why is he even worried about stupid shit like that. Wait, is the jizz in question on Barry or Mooch? ... Jizz Hands!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (+1EJs)

96 The artist selection was a deliberate fuck you to the American people. The rest is just shitty portrait work with perhaps a dash or two of immaturity.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (NWiLs)

97 J.J.:

Leslie Ann Dowd (does not equal) Lesley Ann Dowd

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (sjdRT)

98 Margins blown.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (f4vam)

99 Ahem.

That is a tanned Ed McMahon without his glasses.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (CClpm)

100 Trump and the Russians colluded with the black racist painter to put sperm on the greatest, most by the book preezy we have ever been privileged to have rule us.

Posted by: Adam Schiff at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (3BFzK)

101 Eh, not seeing a thumb. I am seeing bad technique. But it's not a thumb.

Posted by: PugBot Mahon at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (xPJvm)

102 The hands kind of remind me of artists sketches where they do not show the whole figure, they are just practicing their drawing. The hands and face are the most distinct part of the portrait- the rest could be done by a five year old.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (ycWCI)

103 Looks like something a grade school did for a hallway art project.

It does look like he has an extra digit on his left hand and I think the spunk on his left temple is very appropriate.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (YYYb4)

104 Among the things I have never ever wanted to see is Obama sperm.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

105 78 So Obama and Michelle will be laughed at for the rest of history when people observe their official caricatures, er, portraits.

I can live with that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (UsCnO)

The funny part is that if someone outside of a protected class had ginned up those portraits he'd be vilified for depicting them so childishly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (MjCfq)

106 Among the things I have never ever wanted to see is Obama sperm.

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This thread jumped the shark quickly.

Posted by: SH at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (sX1BW)

107 >>http://bit.ly/2HcJo35
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>>Spermhead

Well.
Uh.
You get what you pay for, huh?

Obama chose the artist, so one has to agree that Obama wanted a portrait like this. It is perfectly in line with the artist's other works.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (W+vEI)

108 Also, unrelated, but seriously -- WHEN DOES THE NAUSEA FREAKING END? I'm not vomiting from my eyeballs anymore, but I still feel like it. It's 16 weeks in, kiddo. Get your act together.

Posted by: sunny-dee at February 13, 2018 02:54 PM (QAOZh)

Little One probably wants gingersnap cookies. And yes, it usually does end by the end of the second trimester.

Posted by: pookysgirl at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (XKZwp)

109 If you have a problem with a racist ex-potus's racist portrait artist's racist paintings, well then you're a racist!

Posted by: D-FENS at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (q1ack)

110 Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (rP4OC)<

Long time no see!

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (sjdRT)

111 96 The artist selection was a deliberate fuck you to the American people. The rest is just shitty portrait work with perhaps a dash or two of immaturity.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (NWiLs)

Agreed- but that takes some of the fun out of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (ycWCI)

112 hey, the 90's called and they want their "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand" T-shirt back. And also, they said be nice to Rose McGowan.

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (V3U1L)

113 I hardly recognize the man without his golf kit.

Posted by: Fritz at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (2Mnv1)

114 Sperm on Barky's face? I thought Realism was dead.

Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (djCea)

115 Fat hands.

Posted by: eleven at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (+lOpA)

116 Has anyone seen Jane after her poltergeist came in from the garage?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (sjdRT)

117 104 Among the things I have never ever wanted to see is Obama sperm.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

Well, strictly speaking, it would not be HIS sperm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (ycWCI)

118 Happy Valentine's Day

https://tinyurl.com/ycr5e7nv

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (QQ+il)

119 104 Among the things I have never ever wanted to see is Obama sperm.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

Apparently it's so huge that you don't have a choice in the matter.

Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (RD7QR)

120 Hi Amy,

A couple weeks ago when I was looking at myself in the mirror I noticed how my upper arms are really toning up.

Keep up the good work guuuuuurrrrrllll!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (3BFzK)

121 Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)
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Don't worry, It's Reggie's

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (y3aQB)

122 it seems the "play on kill whitey" was a much higher priority for Obama than her skill as an artist.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (bT8Z4)

123 So the left hand that is draped over the right arm appears to have 6 fingers, assuming the thumb is hidden...is that what everyone is referring to? It does look odd, now that I've noticed it.

Posted by: IC at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (a0IVu)

124 109 If you have a problem with a racist ex-potus's racist portrait artist's racist paintings, well then you're a racist!
Posted by: D-FENS at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (q1ack)

Or having a problem with chugging his semen. Totes racist.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (NWiLs)

125 I'm sorry, deplorable racists, the only proper response is to applaud approvingly at the emperor's new clothes...er paintings....a true work of six fingered genius

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (V3U1L)

126 The artist himself admits it's "a sort of a play on the 'Kill Whitey' thing."

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Oh I see, it's all in good fun. Like the knockout game.

Hey, stop me if you've heard this one. Deputy sheriff, looking at a drowned corpse: "Trust a black social justice warrior painter to steal more chains'n he could swim with."

Hee-yuck. You can take a joke, can't you?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (caGF2)

127 >>Little One probably wants gingersnap cookies. And yes, it usually does end by the end of the second trimester.

Sunny-Dee - I had terrible nausea, too. Not fun!! My trick was lifesaver candies, the 5-flavor kind. One would usual help with the nausea.
Hope yours ends soon!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (W+vEI)

128 The missing wedding ring must be a shout-out to the boys in the bathhouse...

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (2z74n)

129 http://bit.ly/2Gc1zUS
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Article on Looneytune Omarosa

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (y3aQB)

130 Part of me is in the Smithsonian now!

Posted by: Reggie at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (r9UYA)

131 Wasn't there another Leslie Ann Down a few decades back? Another actress?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (tRaq7)

132 But why isn't Obama on a bucking horse!?!

Jennifer Connelly wouldn't let him on.

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (2z74n)

133 I find it kind of interesting that the artist who painted TFG's portrait explores classical structures and subjects in his art, like Judith beheading Holofornes, but with a modern angle, like recasting the roles. I'd honestly be interested in learning more about his work... if he didn't add that whole "kill Whitey" flavor to his art. That kind of thing pretty much says "My work isn't for you, cracker."

I'll pass.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (rP4OC)

134 75 Reminds me of the King of Queens episode where their friends purposely give Doug and Carrie a horrible portrait of themselves.
Posted by: steevy at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (LiyEm)

Exactly what I thought.

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (7HtZB)

135 Check it under a blacklight. It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (NWiLs)

136 It is NOT six fingers. It is FIVE fingers. Normal humans have Four fingers.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (3BFzK)

137 The artist just wanted to reassure us that Obama will be there when things come to a head.

Posted by: Caliban at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (QE8X6)

138 128 The missing wedding ring must be a shout-out to the boys in the bathhouse...
Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2018 03:04 PM (2z74n)

Wedding ring, cock ring, what's the dif?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (MjCfq)

139 I can't see getting upset at this, I think it's hilarious! A pathetic, incompetent President is "honored" with a pathetic, incompetent, portrait. Perfect!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (k1TUh)

140 Rembrandt would paint hands of portrait subjects slightly larger than their actual proportions, thus accentuating them, forcing the viewer to focus on them, to pause and look them over more closely. One art history expert thinks this is because Rembrandt was showing off, demonstrating that hands--so difficult to execute artistically--were child's play to a master such as himself. He was essentially signaling his superiority to other artists.

There is a brashness to Rembrandt's works, even in his maturity. I tend to think that observation is true.

Insofar as Obama's artist is concerned: utter shit. And the irony here? This clown is taught in art schools. He's considered a big deal. This inordinate critical praise and academic support for such substandard, amateurish work can only be due--in my view--to the artist as a POC provocateur. It can't be--and isn't--because of his talent.

Posted by: troyriser at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (K8f5g)

141 Ginger Snaps are the black licorice of cookies.

Posted by: eleven at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (+lOpA)

142
Perhaps the National Portrait Gallery should consider swapping this dreck for one of the many "Barky on a Unicorn" portraits that flooded the zones back in '08

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (pNxlR)

143 >>Eh, not seeing a thumb. I am seeing bad technique. But it's not a thumb.

It's more than bad technique. He has some sort of digit coming off the bottom of his left hand and that digit is tucked underneath his fingers.

Which just ads to the theory that Obama is an alien.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (/tuJf)

144 No, he didn't paint the hand on backwards. Look at the wrist. And I think Obama has a great fat hypothenar eminenence that bulges out when he puts his hand down. So no, I don't think it's an extra finger. What is wrong is the length of the hands and arms, which are exaggerated.

That plus the background gimmick.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (CPk08)

145 112 hey, the 90's called and they want their "It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand"

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My metal head college roommate had a t-shirt made up that read "It's a white male, drug-induced, Satanic thing. You wouldn't understand."

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (7HtZB)

146 Secret sperm story.

http://bit.ly/2srW6ay

artist Kehinde Wiley had previously painted an image of a black woman decapitating a white woman; the explanation that it was based on the biblical story of Judith was not accepted by Trump fans, who immediately declared that this was evidence of some kind of anti-white agenda

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Whaaa? We can't even decapitate white women without being criticized? Is this Anerica or what?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (+y/Ru)

147
The artist allegedly has some history of including sperm in his paintings.

And we were nutso whacko-birds for wondering what country the dude was born in.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (2FqvZ)

148 it seems the "play on kill whitey" was a much higher priority for Obama than her skill as an artist.

Obama's pettiness never disappoints.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (PmDx1)

149 He's got Arsenio Hall hands

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (QLvwG)

150 >>>74 They should have gone with this one https://tinyurl.com/yb7wfoge

It's like an evil bastardization of a Marc Chagall painting. My eyes! *grabs brain bleach*

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (hvf9s)

151 122 it seems the "play on kill whitey" was a much higher priority for Obama than her skill as an artist.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (bT8Z4)

Barry's artist was a dude. A faggy, racist dude, but still a dude.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (WDCYi)

152 I SEE FIVE FINGERS!

Posted by: Captain Jean-Luc Picard at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (7HtZB)

153 The 11 fingers represents the 11 centuries of white European oppression against the beautiful black persons of Africa.

11 centuries of the 11 crimes of slavery and murder and land theft and labor theft and god-theft and theft-theft and women-theft and child-theft and men-theft and food-theft and grand-theft.

Brother Obama is an 11-fingered prophet. Peace be upon him!

Posted by: Louis Farrakhan at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (MnkFD)

154 49 Did they give him giant hands as a shot at Trump? Are they that petty and small minded? Did I just answer my own question?

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (64Uc5)

~~~

They are huge but smaller than Michelle's scythe-like meat hooks. What does that mean?

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (hUqh+)

155 At least there is no glowing halo in this one. Just jizz on his head.

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (r9UYA)

156
Michelle Fields will gladly swap out whichever arm is wrong so that she can be made whole again.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (pNxlR)

157 the artist is a Nation Of Islam follower like Obamas other buddy Farrakan? Or maybe an Antifa type like Ayers?

Obamas friends sure do like killing people.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (Z8j2x)

158 The portraits are fitting for a man of his accomplishments and stature.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (Ri/rl)

159 Among the things I have never ever wanted to see is Obama sperm.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:01 PM (fuK7c)

That's not his, it's mine

Posted by: Reggie at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (z79tQ)

160 I'm surprised he didn't depict Obama giving us the finger, period, full stop.

This choice is just one more chance for Obama to stick his finger in our eye. Sorry dude, not buying it.

That portrait will be his embarrassment for all time, hung out for all the world to see and point and laugh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (7UW64)

161 I wish I had six fingers.

Posted by: South African Hand Signer at February 13, 2018 03:09 PM (UKk3H)

162 Wonder if the "sh'artiste" ever painted a portrait of DemonRat Saint Robert Byrd (D - KKK) with a burning cross.

Yeah, probably not.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2018 03:09 PM (O033+)

163 One wonder If Obama actually knew that or he is now finding out about it on the news.

Well if we actually Had a media.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:09 PM (Z8j2x)

164 Best transparent President Ever.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (Z8j2x)

165 154 49 Did they give him giant hands as a shot at Trump? Are they that petty and small minded? Did I just answer my own question?

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM (64Uc5)

~~~

They are huge but smaller than Michelle's scythe-like meat hooks. What does that mean?
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 13, 2018 03:07 PM (hUqh+)

Now I'm picturing the "Hook Horror" from D&D

Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (7HtZB)

166
The artist allegedly has some history of including sperm in his paintings

Then I am doubly, nay, trebly disappointed that Mooch's portrait was not done in period blood.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (pNxlR)

167 Five fingers or six fingers?

Look, I'm an artist.

I was told there wasn't going to be any math.

Posted by: Kehinde Wiley at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (MnkFD)

168 Why is his right hand more developed than his left?

Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (r9UYA)

169 A six fingered man killed my father. Prepare to die.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (QQ+il)

170 Nothing screams "black American artist painting the first black American President" like a guy who has "global production outposts," including in Beijing. Real homegrown flavor.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (rP4OC)

171 so.

how embassing for a presdient. Is there any hidden subervise tells' in Michelle's?

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (Z8j2x)

172 http://bit.ly/2Ga7REC
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FBI Officials: McCabe & Comey Knew of Porter's Domestic Violence Before Inauguration; FBI Withheld Intel for a Year
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Heads Up it is True Pundit

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (y3aQB)

173 like a Rakshasa
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well played.

Such an odd painting. So many odd choices made.

Fitting.

Posted by: simplemind at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (WS0iS)

174 I kind of wonder with all the severed heads... is this guy trying to imitate Caravaggio? Dude had a lot of severed heads.

Also, this, he is not:
https://tinyurl.com/y7s2td44

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (ycWCI)

175 The portrait looks like a bad Photoshop prank.

Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (djCea)

176
If the background was a field of weed it would be speaking more truth to some higher power. Or something...

Posted by: Burning fields at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (/zwDg)

177 The extra finger was hurriedly added as an encoded message to his buddies inside the FBI - "Abort! Abort! Abort!"

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (64Uc5)

178 The pinkie finger on his left hand looks odd too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (Ri/rl)

179 LOL even Preezy smahtest man evah didn't notice that his hand is all cocked up?

OMG I'm dying here. Standing right next to it at the unveiling, not even a glimmer of recognition.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (ymnmz)

180 To quote Churchill's backhanded compliment about his own botched portrait:

"A remarkable example of modern art."

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (hvf9s)

181 105
78 So Obama and Michelle will be laughed at for the rest of history
when people observe their official caricatures, er, portraits.

I can live with that.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (UsCnO)

The funny part is that if someone outside of a protected class had
ginned up those portraits he'd be vilified for depicting them so
childishly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 03:02 PM (MjCfq)

So very true.
And now there is more permanent proof that the protected class produces inferior work, yet can't be criticized for it.

Just watch the hounding of anyone who doesn't act like a NORK citizen at a RocketMan speech that is sure to follow in the next few days.

Or they may just continue to completely censor any of the laughter and derision. Yeah, censorship, that's the ticket!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (UsCnO)

182 Concealed thumbs are one of the 'tells' of deception and evasion.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (fA1SL)

183 The green background reminds me of the Official Color of Islam.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (64Uc5)

184 obamas thoughts are like leeches traveling into the lefts brains.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (Z8j2x)

185 157
the artist is a Nation Of Islam follower like Obamas other buddy Farrakan? Or maybe an Antifa type like Ayers?

Obamas friends sure do like killing people.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (Z8j2x)

Almost as much as the Clintons do

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (jxbfJ)

186 Those hands are accurate. Proof Odipshit is a demon.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (P81rR)

187 It's no Norman Rockwell.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (QLvwG)

188 Yeeah and I'm the Witless one.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (ymnmz)

189
Recognize that an incoming President usually will request portaits of previous Presidents to hang in the WH during his time there.

I cannot see anyone (anyone!) in the future asking for this dreck to be brought over.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (pNxlR)

190 Wait - he traced a photo in paint.
Isn't that like the painter's equivalent of training wheels?
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It could have been worse.

It could have been paint-by-numbers.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (vg8iE)

191 "FBI Officials: McCabe & Comey Knew of Porter's Domestic Violence Before Inauguration; FBI Withheld Intel for a Year"

Weird how the word "accusation" was left out. Like they want people to think he was convicted.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (1O2zx)

192 174
I kind of wonder with all the severed heads... is this guy trying to imitate Caravaggio? Dude had a lot of severed heads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (ycWCI)p
Yes.
Her pose is a riff on classical depictions by Caravaggio and Gentileschi, of the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (rP4OC)

193 I cannot see anyone (anyone!) in the future asking for this dreck to be brought over.
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Oh, really?

Posted by: President Kamala Harris at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (vg8iE)

194 Sperm on the right side of Obama's head?

I've got this!

Posted by: Shep Smith at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (UsCnO)

195 I still say I would have just a smidgen of respect if the portrait was done the same way, but with Obama reclining on a wicker throne. Go the full Montalban in Fantasy Island.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (ycWCI)

196 The vagina crease is very real as well.

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (Ij2U7)

197 169 A six fingered man killed my father. Prepare to die.

Holy schnikes! Inigo Montoya. I totally forgot about inigo Montoya!

Great job, Grumpy!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (MnkFD)

198 The Russians hacked the Obama's photos!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (+1EJs)

199 Concealed thumbs are one of the 'tells' of deception and evasion.
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We'll only one of my thumbs is "concealed", and not all that well!!!!!

Posted by: Rip Van Sessions at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (64Uc5)

200 Perhaps the National Portrait Gallery should consider swapping this dreck for one of the many "Barky on a Unicorn" portraits that flooded the zones back in '08
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Brak Shooting Skeet

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (f4vam)

201 I'd like to have two middle fingers so I can doubly flip assholes off. Some people just deserve it. Maybe I would have been a better bowler...like thats a sport or anything.

ITS A JOKE PEOPLE!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (70cRb)

202 The hands are all wonky, but he nailed the mole.

Posted by: Fritz at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (2Mnv1)

203 Don't worry, It's Reggie's
Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:03 PM (y3aQB)

That's not his, it's mine
Posted by: Reggie at February 13, 2018 03:08 PM (z79tQ)

But seriously, I'm not trying to be Amy Schumer.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (z79tQ)

204 I had thought people were exaggerating about the portrait. So this close up is the real deal?

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (Z8j2x)

205 what is with islamists and beheading?

also, do these black islamists understand the role of muhhhhamad had in the slave trade? Or how they were the racist against blakcs?

Posted by: zibbly wibbly at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (V3U1L)

206 "96 The artist selection was a deliberate fuck you to the American people. The rest is just shitty portrait work with perhaps a dash or two of immaturity."

The funniest thing about that is the Obama's forgot a lesson that just about every other ruler for the past 2,000 years has figured out - when you choose an artist to create a depiction of yourself that will be remembered for all time, there's a reason you want to pick the BEST, not pick someone who's only real talent is punching political buttons.

Pope Julius II and Michelangelo couldn't stand each other, but Julius had the artistic taste to know that Michelangelo could do the work he wanted done better than any other.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (k1TUh)

207 What's with a man wearing a suit, sitting on a wooden chair and shoved into the bushes? I don't think I've ever encounter this is real life.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (tcwn1)

208 *ahem*
We all have 11 fingers. I'll prove it.
Hold up both hands. Now start counting down from your left thumb - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

And five on your right hand makes 11.

See?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (tRaq7)

209 I think this should be switched out with Medias renditions of Obama with Halos.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (Z8j2x)

210 Look, I'm an artist.

I was told there wasn't going to be any math.
Posted by: Kehinde Wiley at February 13, 2018 03:10 PM (MnkFD)

Ought to make it easy to get out of paying him then.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (kUmUV)

211 Someone needs to sneak into wherever this is and paint a huge blowfly around his upper lip.

Posted by: PugBot Mahon at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (xPJvm)

212 At least the artist remembered Obama keeps his thumb up his ass.

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (7n4KQ)

213 At least Barky's picture LOOKS like him. Y'know, if he was being swallowed by Triffids. Mooch's is just awful. It's like an art student's first draft pencil sketch.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (rP4OC)

214 183
The green background reminds me of the Official Color of Islam.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:12 PM (64Uc5)

It took 183 posts to comment on this.
The Horde is slipping.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (UsCnO)

215 Proof once again of the competence of diversity hires.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (P81rR)

216 >>It could have been worse.
It could have been paint-by-numbers.

All of the painting's quirks aside, the he did capture Obama's face well. We saw that exasperated, impatient scowl a lot for 8 years.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (W+vEI)

217 Obama must have hurt himself manspreading like that.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (jxbfJ)

218 This reminds me: Ian Anderson had an extra finger on the cover of Stand Up.

What's the difference between Ian Anderson and Obama?

Anderson plays the flute. Obama "plays" the skin flute.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (juCZM)

219 Look at that little guy swim.

Posted by: Reggie at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (r9UYA)

220 You will be made to care!

Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can`t say no when asked to dance

WEST HAVEN, Utah -- When Natalie Richard’s sixth-grade daughter told her she couldn’t say “no” if a boy asked her to dance at Kanesville Elementary’s Valentine’s Day dance, she didn’t believe it at first.

8220;Oh no, no honey," Richard said of her reply. "You guys are misunderstanding again. That’s not how it is."

However, after speaking to her daughter’s teacher, she realized the statement was accurate.

“The teacher said she can’t. She has to say yes. She has to accept and I said, 'Excuse me,” Richard tells Fox 13.

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Theh don't mention LGBTQEIEIO but I assume it applies to them as well since to exclude them would be racist. Or something. Anyway, definitely non-woke.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (+y/Ru)

221 Her pose is a riff on classical depictions by Caravaggio and Gentileschi, of the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes.
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Or ISIS.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (MIKMs)

222 Obama really does have a 6th finger on that hand. Just like the nephilim.

Posted by: Valiant at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (3MiF8)

223
86 8 He painted it backwards because it was projected on the flower background (slide was reversed) and he painted over the projected image. Remarkable talent there.
Posted by: josephistan at February 13, 2018 02:50 PM (7HtZB)

Paint by the numbers?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 13, 2018 02:59 PM (MjCfq)

Hell, the guy probably never did an actual portrait before, but hell, he can trace like a boss.

This is what they teach in "art school" these days. Not composition, not respect for the subject matter, not a damned thing besides cut and paste and projection painting.

It's crap, and it will continue to be so for many years in the future. A fitting tribute for the JEF.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (7UW64)

224 OMG.. what the hell? I just noticed the hand thing.

Posted by: Jewells45 at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (zRZaJ)

225 Was the unveiling really the first time the Obamas saw the portraits?
Surely they had to give final approval.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (5fRCd)

226 I only found out about my cocked up hands on the news, just like you! Tilt chin up and look into distance. Wait was I supposed to read that?

Posted by: Preezy Obama at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (ymnmz)

227 I say we let Cecilia Gimenez touch the portrait up a bit.

Posted by: Keith at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (USf3s)

228 200 Brak Shooting Skeet
Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (f4vam)

More like Barack getting Skeet on.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (WDCYi)

229 207 What's with a man wearing a suit, sitting on a wooden chair and shoved into the bushes? I don't think I've ever encounter this is real life.

Ever been to Golden Gate Park?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (juCZM)

230 I don't think Obama's artist is painting "a play on the kill whitey thing". I think he means "kill whitey."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (70cRb)

231 213
At least Barky's picture LOOKS like him. Y'know, if he was being
swallowed by Triffids. Mooch's is just awful. It's like an art student's
first draft pencil sketch.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:15 PM (rP4OC)

Mooch's artist probably painted another woman's face because of Mooch's resting bitch face was just too brutal to paint.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (jxbfJ)

232 Why is his right hand more developed than his left?
Posted by: Under Fire

To be fair, that's true of most males over the age of 12.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (6FqZa)

233 Why is his right hand more developed than his left?
Posted by: Under Fire

"Jacking it" hand.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (f4vam)

234 Twelfth finger. Twelfth Imam.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (64Uc5)

235 Mexico will pay for the wall
That will reduce Trumps trillion dollar budget deficit by 0.04%

Posted by: You at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (aVmOK)

236 220 You will be made to care!

Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can`t say no when asked to dance

Harvey Weinstein just asked for a ticket to the dance.

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (7n4KQ)

237 >>211 Someone needs to sneak into wherever this is and paint a huge blowfly around his upper lip.

High power pocket laser would burn a hole in it in seconds.

Posted by: Reggie at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (r9UYA)

238 Not a smidgen of competence.

Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (djCea)

239 220 -
Theh don't mention LGBTQEIEIO but I assume it applies to them as well since to exclude them would be racist. Or something. Anyway, definitely non-woke.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (+y/Ru)

What if someone just plain doesn't want to go?

At all?

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (WDCYi)

240 A little camp dry or other water proofing solution on Mooch's dress and you'd have a hell of a camping tarp.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (+1EJs)

241 It's perfect.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (QQ+il)

242 I say we let Cecilia Gimenez touch the portrait up a bit.
Posted by: Keith at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (USf3s)

LOL

Posted by: DR.WTF? at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (T71PA)

243 171 so.

how embassing for a presdient. Is there any hidden subervise tells' in Michelle's?

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:11 PM (Z8j2x)

Well, the draped jib nicely covers up the bulge of her penis. So, there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (7UW64)

244 227 I say we let Cecilia Gimenez touch the portrait up a bit.
Posted by: Keith at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (USf3s)

And call it Icky Homo

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (7n4KQ)

245 Ever been to Golden Gate Park?
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:16 PM (juCZM)

+++

LOL!!

Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (tcwn1)

246 I still say we should x-ray the painting for the secret underlayer to see what demonic shit was painted under the visible layer.

Or, put the painting under a blacklight to see what kind of funky messaging the artist has hidden away.

It's something that Ben Gates from "National Treasure" would do.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (ATVNj)

247 Have we started nominating people for Trump's presidential portrait yet? Jon McNaughton gets my vote.

https://tinyurl.com/ycom4ro6

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (hvf9s)

248 I see they brushed our Micheles back hair and mustache

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (NLCi6)

249 207 What's with a man wearing a suit, sitting on a wooden chair and shoved into the bushes? I don't think I've ever encounter this is real life.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (tcwn1)

Megan's Law...

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (WDCYi)

250 The fact that it's black women decapitating white women is merely artistic license.

As zombie pointed out, the "artist" has never painted a white person with their head attached. So, artistic license or no, that's racist.

Also, as ace pointed out, the artist itself says it's a play on the "kill whitey thing".

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (iv0p7)

251
He also chose an artist who is very interested in painting black people brandishing the severed heads of white women.

On the bright side at least he's not a performance artist.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (lKyWE)

252 The jizz was not painted. It was the press who stopped by to tribute it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (+1EJs)

253 207
What's with a man wearing a suit, sitting on a wooden chair and shoved
into the bushes? I don't think I've ever encounter this is real life.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 13, 2018 03:14 PM (tcwn1)

Shoulda put him in a tub like a viagra commercial

Posted by: Preezy Obama at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (ymnmz)

254 JV Painter

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (64Uc5)

255 It's appropriate. The "artist" wouldn't be there if he wasn't black either.

Posted by: DaveA at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (FhXTo)

256 Willowed-- Obama killed Indigo Montoyas Father!

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (0OmEj)

257 Hey it's Fat Tuesday and I've got some beads.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (/tuJf)

258 Defenders of that artist say that he was re-interpreting classic paintings. The severed heads thing is a reference to paintings of Judith and Holofernes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes

So let's examine the theme here. Holofernes was a general, leading an army to destroy Judith's home and kill everyone. She killed him and thus saved her home. Now this artist has made this a racial thing: the hero is now black, the villain is now a white woman. If there is symbolism here, it's pretty clear: whites are going to destroy blacks, and a hero should kill some white person to stop the destruction?

On the maxim "never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence", I think maybe this isn't an explicit call to violence. I think the artist started out saying "I'll paint new versions of classic painting, swapping in black people" and the just said "while I'm at it, I'll make the severed head that of a woman. And I'll paint pretty flowers! And the heroine will wear a blue fashion gown!" I think the artist could have made these decisions randomly, not thinking about them much. Then pretentious over-educated people can read deep meanings from these arbitrary decisions.

So you have your choice: the artist is guilty of weaving hateful imagery on purpose, or the artist is just a shallow hack making random decisions. Neither one is really flattering to the artist.

Obama chose this guy because of course he did. Obama is a narcissist, and he couldn't have an ordinary portrait; his has to be special and edgy and different, because he's so special.

Posted by: mr_jack at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (M59SC)

259 "Jacking it" hand.
=====

BHO is rather famously left handed.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (MIKMs)

260 His number of fingers went up 2500%.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (64Uc5)

261 252
The jizz was not painted. It was the press who stopped by to tribute it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (+1EJs)<

You owe me a new monitor.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (sjdRT)

262 Her pose is a riff on classical depictions by Caravaggio and Gentileschi, of the biblical story of Judith beheading Holofernes.
Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:13 PM (rP4OC)

Well, that's just... horrific, somehow. Caravaggio did not paint by numbers for one thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (ycWCI)

263 First World problems ... caused by Third World values.

Posted by: ShainS at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (LTTmi)

264 >>"The teacher said she can't. She has to say yes. She has to accept...."

It's a little late to be pretending not to understand the concept of CONSENT, no?

This has only been the feminist's favorite word for several years.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (W+vEI)

265
"I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (QQ+il)

266 What if someone just plain doesn't want to go?

At all?

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:17 PM (WDCYi)

========

Very interested to hear the response to this.

Posted by: The Ficus at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (vg8iE)

267 261
252

The jizz was not painted. It was the press who stopped by to tribute it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:19 PM (+1EJs)<

You owe me a new monitor.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:20 PM (sjdRT)

TWO! lol!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (70cRb)

268 This 'art' is almost as funny as the Chinese botching MLK's statue.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (r9UYA)

That's because the "artist" outsourced some of the work to China.

Posted by: WOPR (Russian BOTS are pikers) at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (WVeiZ)

269 If you like your 11th Finger, you can KEEP your 11th Finger.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (WDCYi)

270 Seriously? Its the extra thumb that he kept in his ass.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (nNPAz)

271 IT'S AWFUL, JERRY! JUST AWFUL!

Posted by: George Costanza, Hand Model Extraordinaire at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (ATVNj)

272 247
Have we started nominating people for Trump's presidential portrait yet? Jon McNaughton gets my vote.

https://tinyurl.com/ycom4ro6

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (hvf9s)
Heh...love that one..he gets my vote too.

Posted by: IC at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (a0IVu)

273 I don't see a thumb. It looks to me like the artist was trying to show the way the hand sorta deforms when you push it against something. If his left hand were pushed against the top of his right forearm, then the "meaty" bit of the palm would be pushed out to the side a little bit (try making that pose with your arms yourself and you'll see what I mean)

The artist screwed up by over-exaggerating it i think, or maybe JEF just has flabbly floppy hands.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (jnLXM)

274 246
I still say we should x-ray the painting for the secret underlayer to see what demonic shit was painted under the visible layer.

Or, put the painting under a blacklight to see what kind of funky messaging the artist has hidden away.

It's something that Ben Gates from "National Treasure" would do.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:18 PM (ATVNj)

Here, try on these sunglasses...

Posted by: Roddy Piper at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (djCea)

275 The missing wedding ring must be a shout-out to the boys in the bathhouse...

Seriously, is the artist saying that now that Sparky isn't in the White House, he's free to be free of Mooch?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (iv0p7)

276 "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on", although in this case, it just kind of hangs around.

Posted by: Omar Khayyam at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (wW03z)

277 The Trump on a Tank pic is pretty cool. He should go with something like that.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QLvwG)

278 Hey John I won.

Did you though? Did you?

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (64Uc5)

279 Oh hey ginger snaps reminds me to get moving on making my sauerbraten

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QJmys)

280 "I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QQ+il)

281 268 This 'art' is almost as funny as the Chinese botching MLK's statue.
Posted by: Under Fire at February 13, 2018 02:55 PM (r9UYA)

That's because the "artist" outsourced some of the work to China.
Posted by: WOPR (Russian BOTS are pikers) at February 13, 2018 03:21 PM (WVeiZ)

It does look like the same style on Chi-Com propaganda posters of the Mao era.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (mbhDw)

282 No, he didn't paint the hand on backwards. Look at the wrist. And I think Obama has a great fat hypothenar eminenence that bulges out when he puts his hand down. So no, I don't think it's an extra finger. What is wrong is the length of the hands and arms, which are exaggerated.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 13, 2018 03:06 PM (CPk0

---
Well put. The "finger" is so blobby and unformed, as opposed to all of the other *fingers* which have a knuckle and definition.

As somebody who has drawn a thing or two I know the feeling when you mess up a contour. I was thinking of a situation of pressing a palm into something--or possibly the stress put on a hand when you play with a ring on your ring finger. But it's probably a the fat of the palm that received too much space and definition.

Furthermore, you can't tuck your little finger under your other fingers to hide it to that extent--especially from *that* angle.

There are all sorts of features which make it look less like a finger than a drafting mistake.

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (vDqXW)

283 96 The artist selection was a deliberate fuck you to the American people. The rest is just shitty portrait work with perhaps a dash or two of immaturity."

BIngo! I think you got it - my first impression on noticing this was "why is this image reversed???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (k1TUh)

284 although I just now noticed the biggest thing about the left hand in that portrait:

The tan line where the wedding band should be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (jnLXM)

285 Schroedinger' finger.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (tRaq7)

286 Its a Tooomah

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (M+Lyo)

287 >>>Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can`t say no when asked to dance

Utah passed a law legalizing free range parenting. Now they just need to pass one for free range dancing!

How is forcing a girl to dance with someone they don't want to NOT anti-choice?

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (hvf9s)

288 Thumb on the wrong side, extra pinky...or is "pinky" racist? I denounce myself, just to be sure

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (5gaNQ)

289 His hand has been fundamentally transformed.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (64Uc5)

290 273 I don't see a thumb. It looks to me like the artist was trying to show the way the hand sorta deforms when you push it against something. If his left hand were pushed against the top of his right forearm, then the "meaty" bit of the palm would be pushed out to the side a little bit (try making that pose with your arms yourself and you'll see what I mean)

The artist screwed up by over-exaggerating it i think, or maybe JEF just has flabbly floppy hands.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (jnLXM)

Probably.

But I'd rather mock the prick and the jackass he painted.

Posted by: buzzion at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (lKs2v)

291 279
Oh hey ginger snaps reminds me to get moving on making my sauerbraten

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QJmys)<

Mit schnitzel?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (sjdRT)

292 More to the point portraits of both.

http://tinyurl.com/y6umnuua

Posted by: geoffb at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (zOpu5)

293 looks like one of those paint by numbers kits

Posted by: concrete girl at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (Gz24F)

294 246 I still say we should x-ray the painting for the secret underlayer to see what demonic shit was painted under the visible layer.

This was posted here yesterday (not by me) in the English sports thread, but I laughed out loud so here it is again. Warning: NSFW, but I think it answers your question.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8dgusf9

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (kUmUV)

295 The world's most talented black painter's portrait of the world's smartest black man.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (ks6bw)

296 extra fingers for the shocker yo!

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (FZYNt)

297 275 The missing wedding ring must be a shout-out to the boys in the bathhouse...

Seriously, is the artist saying that now that Sparky isn't in the White House, he's free to be free of Mooch?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (iv0p7)

I think the ring is actually there, the artist is just so incompetent that he used the same paint to go over it he used for the hands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (ycWCI)

298 I'm thinking it might not be such a great idea to teach young boys that girls can't say no to them.

But hey, that's just me. I'm sure my Betters know better.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (juCZM)

299 ObamaCare: If you like your extra finger you can keep your extra finger.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (64Uc5)

300
The Trump on a Tank pic is pretty cool. He should go with something like that.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QLvwG)

I would suggest he doesn't

Posted by: Michael Dukakis at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (lKyWE)

301 It depresses me that Wiley isn't just a successful artist, but one of the most successful artists of his generation. There is no THERE there. It's busyness and distraction. I'm not saying art can't be busy, but I like to take my time LOOKING at a painting and really absorbing the details. My eyes would deflate if I spent more than five minutes staring at this mess.

Hieronymus Bosch could do busy art. Bosch's art is actually INTERESTING to look at, with lots of unique details.

This Wiley guy just gives me a headache.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (rP4OC)

302 295 The world's most talented black painter's portrait of the world's smartest black man.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (ks6bw)

So, did he paint it with authentic elephant dung?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (mbhDw)

303 Fingers are raycis.

Posted by: #neverskankles at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (U3bAC)

304 "His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (QQ+il)

305 "I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges."
Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM

Are you e-mailing yourself again ?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (+1EJs)

306 Working out vigorously with 10-pound hand weights makes you grow an extra finger.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (ATVNj)

307 That's not really an extra finger down there. He just got a little carried away with the anal bleaching.

Posted by: Roy at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (7n4KQ)

308 (yeesh, it took me far to long to crap out my worthless comments, and I see many others have beaten me to the punch. Oh well.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (jnLXM)

309
Hands are tough to sketch and tougher to paint. But inversing the left hand?

That takes some special talent-less-ness.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (2FqvZ)

310 293 looks like one of those paint by numbers kits
Posted by: concrete girl

If the numbers are irrational, yes.

Posted by: pep at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (wW03z)

311 "He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (QQ+il)

312
I don't see a thumb. It looks to me like the artist was trying to show
the way the hand sorta deforms when you push it against something. If
his left hand were pushed against the top of his right forearm, then the
"meaty" bit of the palm would be pushed out to the side a little bit
(try making that pose with your arms yourself and you'll see what I
mean)

The artist screwed up by over-exaggerating it i think, or maybe JEF just has flabbly floppy hands.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (jnLXM)

I think this is probably right... it is probably a badly painted and exaggerated tendon rather than the extra thumb it looks like.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (9nCnN)

313 Fucker couldn't run a country to save his life. But man he could play piano! Jizz Hands!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (+1EJs)

314 I know the artist is just painting over a projected photo, but he does get a good likeness of Barky's face. (And those paint-overs aren't quite as easy as they might seem to someone who's never done one.)

It's the damned floral stuff that utterly ruins the portrait. It's absurd. Worse than absurd, it's garish and tacky.

And it does look like a weird photo-shop.
When you go to the trouble to hire a painter, you want the product to be ....painterly.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (0jtPF)

315 >>This 'art' is almost as funny as the Chinese botching MLK's statue.

*ahem*

Posted by: Bronze Lucille Ball at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (W+vEI)

316 Doesn't matter the color, beheading women as a theme, makes the term "misogynist" fit this creep. There is no way to equate the story of Judith to a woman's beheading.

Posted by: Ever at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (OLS0m)

317 Betcha that Utah school's administration all voted for McMuffin.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (juCZM)

318 >>There are all sorts of features which make it look less like a finger than a drafting mistake.

I'm pretty sure adding on an extra finger counts as a drafting error.

I have hands, two of them. Had them all my life and I don't have anything that looks like that on either of my hands.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (/tuJf)

319 you didn't build that

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (FZYNt)

320 You can now guarantee that any starving artist show you go to at the local Best Western will have more than their fair share of copies of these two portraits...and probably better than the originals.

Posted by: H Badger at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (n/0Nw)

321 It does look like the same style on Chi-Com propaganda posters of the Mao era.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2018 03:23 PM (mbhDw)

The artist's original title was The Great Pilot Rests In A Silvan Setting Before Returning to His Labors but Obama thought that might be too recherche.

Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (RD7QR)

322 I don't see a thumb. It looks to me like the artist was trying to
show the way the hand sorta deforms when you push it against something.

---

So you're saying our choices are to laugh at the artist being an incompetent artist *or* the artist being an incompetent artist?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (ks6bw)

323 No fo schnitzel kids only eat one new thing at a time

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (QJmys)

324 I'm guessing that extra digit gives him a real flourish on his jazz hands.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (sjdRT)

325 Apparently the gawdawful dress Mooch was painted into was designed by some bitch who gave all her profits to Planned Parenthood. So, another political statement, rather than style or grace.

Plus, it's awful and ugly, but that's to be expected by the queen of the boob belt.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (7UW64)

326 fucking test of fucking commenting

Posted by: andycanuck at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (ewxPW)

327 The Trump on a Tank pic is pretty cool. He should go with something like that.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QLvwG)

I see a line of stylized tanks behind him, advancing and firing. Maybe Barkey standing proudly, chin up holding a flag, red seems to be a good color for him, fluttering in the wind, with other flags behind as he proudly leads the vanguard for fundamental transformation.

Posted by: Keith at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (USf3s)

328 Does Obama shit in the woods?

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (vDqXW)

329 "He transcends time and space."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (QQ+il)

330 I don't see a thumb. It looks to me like the artist was trying to
show the way the hand sorta deforms when you push it against something.

---

So you're saying our choices are to laugh at the artist being an incompetent artist *or* the artist being an incompetent artist?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Yes

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (f4vam)

331 So the dude wears his wedding ring on the FU finger then?

Am I missing something here?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (ymnmz)

332 "He sickens me."

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (QQ+il)

333 too bad they hadn't had Michelle in her best floral pattern of the White House sofa

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (FZYNt)

334 Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (QJmys)<<

Too bad, but sauerbraten rocks hard. A wee bit jealous I am.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:27 PM (sjdRT)

335 Or, put the painting under a blacklight to see what kind of funky messaging the artist has hidden away.

The secret message is on his temple. You really don't want to put it under a black light.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (YYYb4)

336
If the numbers are irrational, yes.

++

Radical

Posted by: Bigby's Pointy Finger at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (QJmys)

337 Perhaps the National Portrait Gallery should consider swapping this dreck for one of the many "Barky on a Unicorn" portraits that flooded the zones back in '08
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Brak Shooting Skeet

-
Let's not forget Obama Emerging From the River.

http://bit.ly/2ClFQYE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (+y/Ru)

338 He could have 2 extra fingers and a 3rd eye and the mindless sycophants would call it the greatest painting ever. And if you disagree....raaaaacist.

Posted by: #neverskankles at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (U3bAC)

339 It's a little late to be pretending not to understand the concept of CONSENT, no?

It's Weber County, Utah. The town has a population of less than four thousand. I wouldn't read into this too much. Probably a misguided small town instinct of "we have to be nice to everyone, so no refusing invitations to dance".

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (iv0p7)

340 328 ~~Does~~ Obama is a shit in the woods?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (ATVNj)

341 >>>And Obama has a sperm cell on the right side of his head<<<

Reggie or Barry? I guess this solves the mystery of who threw out the first pitch.

Posted by: Fritz at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (2Mnv1)

342 316 Doesn't matter the color, beheading women as a theme, makes the term "misogynist" fit this creep. There is no way to equate the story of Judith to a woman's beheading.

Posted by: Ever at February 13, 2018 03:25 PM (OLS0m)

Doesn't particularly quote the Caravaggio, either. Different posture, different attitude. Mostly the Judith deal was an excuse. Dude is gay. He hates on the ladies anyway.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (7UW64)

343 Incidentally, that's *not* a wedding ring. What I read of what we have of Obama in college, his Occidental friends used to give him crap about wearing a "wedding ring" and not being married.

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (vDqXW)

344 You're painting a picture for the Smithsonian, you make a mistake and add an extra digit. The honorable course is to fix the error, not slightly obscure it.

But then if you have half the work done in China, what the hell.

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (5gaNQ)

345 337 Perhaps the National Portrait Gallery should consider swapping this dreck for one of the many "Barky on a Unicorn" portraits that flooded the zones back in '08
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Brak Shooting Skeet

-
Let's not forget Obama Emerging From the River.

http://bit.ly/2ClFQYE
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Broke, Woke, Toke, Joke

Fucking umbrellas, how do they work?

Posted by: Barack at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (FZYNt)

346 also a weird circular mistake on his wrist by the wristwatch.

I'm starting to think the artist worked prior for highlights the childrens magazine in the hidden objects pages.

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (Z8j2x)

347 I do not think it was an extra pinky. I think he just indented the connection of the finger to the bottom/ palm of hand too much where it looks like an extra finger.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (loJzf)

348 The Trump on a Tank pic is pretty cool. He should go with something like that.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:22 PM (QLvwG)

I would suggest he doesn't

Posted by: Michael Dukakis at February 13, 2018 03:24 PM (lKyWE)

You, unlike Trump, are a dweeb from any angle. Trump looks reminiscent of Washington Crossing The Delaware astride his tank.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (QLvwG)

349 You can even find a picture of him, pre-Michelle with a ring on his ring finger.

WND used to say it's a Muslim thing.

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 03:29 PM (vDqXW)

350 The secret message is on his temple.
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The schwartzuh is Jewish?

Posted by: Jackie Mason at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (ATVNj)

351 Just got a good look at the Michelle portrait. What the everlovin--- it doesn't even look like her! It looks like a 70s Pepsi commercial or something.

Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (CjE8v)

352 Come to think of it, the extra finger probably helps with the head brandishing.

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (64Uc5)

353 47 Diogenes searched in wrong century for the narcissistic man

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 13, 2018 02:56 PM

Russian Bot blew out the lamp.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (0tfLf)

354 "
Twelfth finger. Twelfth Imam. Posted by: Mega

yeah, I was looking for it to be some secret sign to his fellow jihadists. He used to do the certain salute to Muslims at times, a specific sign with the fingers .. I forget. At other times he would slip the middle finger to Americans ... that is Obama's mental level, salutes and insults ... not deep thought.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (bT8Z4)

355 The chair looks small and it looks like Barry is fertilizing the flowers by launching the Presidential Poop.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (+1EJs)

356
There are a couple ways to 'cheat' in initial sketches. You take a photograph, print it out, insert it into an opaque projector, turn lights out, and trace away. Fairly safe.

The other way is by using a slide projector. The only problem there is you might insert the slide the wrong way. Which is what seems to have happened with the left hand. It's bass ackwards. Thumb should be at top, not at bottom.

Use your own hands to figure it out.

Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (2FqvZ)

357 >>It's Weber County, Utah. The town has a population of less than four thousand. I wouldn't read into this too much. Probably a misguided small town instinct of "we have to be nice to everyone, so no refusing invitations to dance".

Ah, context helps!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (W+vEI)

358 I know this isn't the Gardening Thread but, why is he in poison ivy?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (GzDYP)

359 Just got a good look at the Michelle portrait. What the everlovin--- it doesn't even look like her! It looks like a 70s Pepsi commercial or something.
Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (CjE8v)
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Oddly enough, the style kind of reminds me of the elephant dung Madonna "painting".

Posted by: Axebot at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (vDqXW)

360
Apparently the gawdawful dress Mooch was painted into was designed by
some bitch who gave all her profits to Planned Parenthood. So, another
political statement, rather than style or grace.

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That one is even more bizarre to me. Not because of the dress, because of course and whatever, but because it looks nothing like Michael. At all.

I guess that's why she and her fan club like it so much.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (ks6bw)

361 The secret message is Tommy Top Notch!!

Posted by: dananjcon at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (xqfqx)

362 The secret message is on his temple. You really don't want to put it under a black light.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 13, 2018 03:28 PM (YYYb4)

"Made in the UAE"

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (nNPAz)

363 355
The chair looks small and it looks like Barry is fertilizing the flowers by launching the Presidential Poop.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (+1EJs)<<

Is there a count down involved in such a launch?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (sjdRT)

364 I think both artists did a wonderful job capturing the spirit of their subjects with their ugly and tasteless paintings.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (hUqh+)

365 Posted by: andycanuck at February 13, 2018 03:26 PM (ewxPW)

Didn't work

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (64Uc5)

366 >>> It's the damned floral stuff that utterly ruins the portrait. It's absurd. Worse than absurd, it's garish and tacky.

The style of Barack's painting reminds me of Magritte for some reason. If Magritte was trying to ape the classical masters.

Poor Michelle, even in her official portrait she cannot escape upholstery fabric dresses!

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (hvf9s)

367 Not all black people like Obama. Obama's over the top narcissism got him bit in the leg for an eternity with that portrait.
There is no way to spin this in a positive direction.

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (Ij2U7)

368 287
>>>Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can`t say no when asked to dance

I was at lunchroom duty and a coupla 7th grade girls called me over and said.

"Mr. CB he won't share his gum and our teacher said you have to share."

Asked the boy if he wanted to share with them. he said "no."

I said "Its his gum he doesn't have to share. Leave him alone."

I hate socialist teachers.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (70cRb)

369 I am surprised he didnt cross his legs like a girl. Wuss.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (NLCi6)

370 You should wee whats under the shirt.

Posted by: Coatl at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (ymnmz)

371 anyway, i think Obama should choose a redo.

This truly isn't appropriate

Posted by: willow at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (Z8j2x)

372 The Official Obama Poortraits

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (64Uc5)

373 367

Only 99.97%

Posted by: #neverskankles at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (U3bAC)

374 Obama pees sitting down, doesnt he. I bet that is where he posed for this picture. In the can.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (NLCi6)

375 That's a wall of Choom behind him.

Posted by: dananjcon at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (xqfqx)

376 Posted by: Acme Trucking Enterprises, White Truck Division at February 13, 2018 03:31 PM (2FqvZ)

That is how many tat artists create their tat template they stick on you outlining the tat . Not many do freehand work directly on the body.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (loJzf)

377 Reminds me of the knights who went ne. They brought him a shrubbery.

Posted by: Northernlurker-Teem at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (5fRCd)

378 It's the damned floral stuff that utterly ruins the portrait. It's absurd. Worse than absurd, it's garish and tacky.

And it's this guy's ludicrous gimmick, which he uses in some form almost every time.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (oVJmc)

379 354 "
Twelfth finger. Twelfth Imam. Posted by: Mega

yeah, I was looking for it to be some secret sign to his fellow jihadists. He used to do the certain salute to Muslims at times, a specific sign with the fingers .. I forget. At other times he would slip the middle finger to Americans ... that is Obama's mental level, salutes and insults ... not deep thought.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2018 03:30 PM (bT8Z4)

Taqiyya and Muruna aside, Barry is too damned mentally weak to ever live under Shari'ah. He'd never give up all of his vices.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (WDCYi)

380 I much prefer the one of Michelle. Yeah, it's a bit crude, seems unfinished or something. But it's a nice composition, doesn't look like a photo-shop, and doesn't scream TACKY.

Okay, it doesn't much look like her but that's okay.
Maybe a plus.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)

381 Just got a good look at the Michelle portrait. What
the everlovin--- it doesn't even look like her! It looks like a 70s
Pepsi commercial or something.

Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 13, 2018

First one with her waving Trump's bloody head around was rejected, because too much boner showing.

Posted by: Roland THTG at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (xBSm0)

382 It's the damned floral stuff that utterly ruins the portrait. It's absurd. Worse than absurd, it's garish and tacky.

THIS. The likeness of Barky is actually pretty good, and a little deviation from strict photorealism is fine (I actually quite like JFK's portrait, for example). But all that flowery BS is mind-numbing. Someone mentioned on Twitter that it looks like one of those Find and Seek pictures out of Highlights magazine; like hidden in the lines you're going to find a wrench, a fire hydrant, and a Model T.

TFG's not even centered properly. The eye (my eye at least) is immediately drawn to the upper right quadrant of the painting - that wall of shrubbery - instead of focusing on the, y'know, alleged focal point of the portrait: the former President.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (rP4OC)

383 His right foot (looking at the portrait) is not under his leg.

The entire thing is objectively terrible.

Posted by: Pound Me Too at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (Ij2U7)

384 380
I much prefer the one of Michelle. Yeah, it's a bit crude, seems
unfinished or something. But it's a nice composition, doesn't look like
a photo-shop, and doesn't scream TACKY.

Okay, it doesn't much look like her but that's okay.

Maybe a plus.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 13, 2018 03:34 PM (0jtPF)

Another glowing review

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (ymnmz)

385 The artist should have stayed true to form and painted Obama holding his white mother's head.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (VpIIl)

386 In honor of the Topper Toys Sixfinger secret agent gun, they should play this discretely in the background at the official display:

Gonna get me a sixfinger, kill all the whitey I see!
Gonna get me a sixfinger, kill all the whitey I see!
When I kill all the whitey I see, then whitey won't bother me!
Gonna get me a sixfinger, kill all the whitey I see!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (e1mEI)

387 I think the Obama portraits are perfect!
Also love the Lefties doing their 'emperor new clothes best' to fawn over them. Could not have captured his presidency better, LOL.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (W+vEI)

388 http://bit.ly/2Ga0nl2
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Jimmy Kimmel art ! hahaha

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (y3aQB)

389 >>> The chair looks small

It was very nice of the artist to include Eastwood's infamous chair from his RNC speech into the painting!

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (hvf9s)

390 Obama is looking directly, straight ahead in the pic, so either his head is lopsided or the painter wanted to emphasize the "vein".

Posted by: Javems at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (fEFmM)

391 Home awhile but not feeling well
Anyway check out the Daily wire painter has a sperm art history.

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (aC6Sd)

392 Michele actually looks hittable in that painting. But then, it doesn't look like her...

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (VpIIl)

393 Someone in the last thread mentioned scrolling through all the presidential portraits and so of course I went and did the same.

I recognized everyone back to McKinley (and I only got that one from context, because I knew TR) and then I basically didn't know any of them until Grant.

I consider those times the Good Times. If the president doesn't matter then things must be OK.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (fuK7c)

394 Shouldn't TFG be wearing a helmet? what if he fell off that chair?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (70cRb)

395 373 367

Only 99.97%
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 13, 2018 03:33 PM (U3bAC)

Well, I hate him enough for all the rest of them.

Posted by: Hikaru at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (WDCYi)

396 Wasn't the failed Obamacare software done by some college friend of Michelle, living in Canada? It cost like $600M and didn't work, while others said they could have done it for a couple million easy.

Obamas, always helping their friends become rich and famous maybe. Hopefully this time they at least saved US some money ... what did they pay for this paint by number? Must have been under a grand. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (bT8Z4)

397

This artist subcontracts his work to Chinese artists. So, there's that.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (OZmbA)

398 "Have we started nominating people for Trump's presidential portrait yet?"

Is Frazetta still working?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (1O2zx)

399
Has anyone seen Jane after her poltergeist came in from the garage?

Posted by: Muad'dib
____________________

I've been keeping an eye on her,, she's okay...

Posted by: Bob from NSA at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (mPeei)

400 Its a sad clown painting on black velvet!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (ymnmz)

401 392
Michele actually looks hittable in that painting. But then, it doesn't look like her...

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (VpIIl)

Hittable with what?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (70cRb)

402 Where in hell is the light coming from in that painting? The right side of his head is painted positively gold, but there are no shadows to speak of and....

Oh hell, it's a travesty. Like those entire 8 years.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (7UW64)

403 You fucked up. You trusted us.

Posted by: Roosters With Paintbrushes Up Their Butts at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (64Uc5)

404 401 392
Michele actually looks hittable in that painting. But then, it doesn't look like her...

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (VpIIl)

Hittable with what?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (70cRb)

2 x 4, or possibly a Buick.

It's just because you can't see her dick. Otherwise....

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (7UW64)

405 https://tinyurl.com/yb5w9xty
That vein might be a sperm

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (aC6Sd)

406 It was very nice of the artist to include Eastwood's infamous chair from his RNC speech into the painting!
_____________________________________

Another excellent point made by an esteemed member of the Horde!

We Deplorables should now refer to the painting as "The Empty Chair."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (ATVNj)

407 Choosing this artist was reprehensible on the JEF's part. But, let it forever reflect Barry's true thoughts (because it does or else a normal-thinking person would've run away from this artist), and let it forever look like the ridiculous piece of garbage that it is...in the context of stately, presidential portraits.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (mQ0Mc)

408 351 Just got a good look at the Michelle portrait. What the everlovin--- it doesn't even look like her! It looks like a 70s Pepsi commercial or something.

Mooch would not like to buy the world a Coke. Some kale, maybe.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (juCZM)

409 Oh hell, it's a travesty. Like those entire 8 years.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (7UW64)

~~~

See? Pure genius on the artists part.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (hUqh+)

410 Taqiyya and Muruna aside, Barry is too damned mentally weak to ever live under Shari'ah. He'd never give up all of his vices.

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The rulers don't have to give up anything. You really think all those Saudi princes & Iranian mullahs live the way they demand others live?

The reason so much terrorism gets funded is because those rich guys fund terrorists & terrorism and they figure that's good enough and they don't have to abide by the rules.

Posted by: Boots at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (EBwPV)

411 381: Not Pepsi, pure Virginia Slims.

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (5gaNQ)

412 *looks around nervously*

Can I stop clapping yet?

Posted by: Hive Members Evrywhere at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (MxEKc)

413 I predict this will portrait will be in the next edition of The Museum of Bad Art. And Michelle's wanna be white woman, too.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (vkS2Z)

414 "Taqiyya and Muruna aside, Barry is too damned mentally weak to ever live under Shari'ah. He'd never give up all of his vices."

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Who said anything about giving up his vices? The Taliban are perfectly fine with paedophilia, it's straight sex they have a problem with.

Posted by: Decaf at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (/3+Sg)

415 Posted by: Bandersnatch at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (fuK7c)

Come on Bander there are only 45 . I bet you can name at least 45 sports guys.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (loJzf)

416 Taqiyya and Muruna aside, Barry is too damned mentally weak to ever live under Shari'ah. He'd never give up all of his vices.
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Fortunately for him, he wouldn't have to live under it. Everyone else would.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (vg8iE)

417 So did the artist trade the extra finger for the big-ass wart on his nose?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (ks6bw)

418 "Over at Hoft Gateway, the "artist" actually has a factory of slave laborers in China cranking out his schlock."

Wow. That really does sound like the story of Obama.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, in his B-Wing "Brad" at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (aPniB)

419
It was very nice of the artist to include Eastwood's infamous chair from his RNC speech into the painting!

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:35 PM (hvf9s)
That was the first thing I thought when i saw it, too. lol!

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at February 13, 2018 03:39 PM (rP4OC)

420 >>> Is Frazetta still working?
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (1O2zx)

I'm picturing Frazetta painting him on a throne of skulls with a scantily clad Melania posed next to him. Could work.

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (hvf9s)

421 closeup of Moo-chelle's portrait reveals certain details

https://___ur.com/r/The_Donald/Xsrj5nW

likely NSFW, if anyone looks closely

Posted by: 9th Circus Judge De Jour at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (LrpB0)

422
Michele actually looks hittable in that painting. But then, it doesn't look like her...

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:36 PM (VpIIl)

Hittable with what?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:37 PM (70cRb)

Somebody else's dick

Posted by: Michael Dukakis at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (lKyWE)

423

The Party of Arts & Entertainment, and fine Italian Chef's...

lol, I can't stop laughing about this. The man with the Capital "I" ego looks like a malnourished half people, half chicken laying out on a some weird flowers

Where's the cigarette?

Is that Clint Eastwood's chair?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (fceHP)

424 Okay, here's a suggestion:

Switch the backgrounds. I think it would work.

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (MIKMs)

425 Honestly, why didn't the artist also just roll a pack of Kool's in his sleeve?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (VpIIl)

426 THIS. The likeness of Barky is actually pretty good, and a little deviation from strict photorealism is fine (I actually quite like JFK's portrait, for example). But all that flowery BS is mind-numbing. Someone mentioned on Twitter that it looks like one of those Find and Seek pictures out of Highlights magazine; like hidden in the lines you're going to find a wrench, a fire hydrant, and a Model T.

I found the douche!

Posted by: Insomniac at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (NWiLs)

427 The evidence of corruption of the FBI/DOJ leads right back to Obama, which makes total sense. Yet, ideological tribalism is stronger than their sense of honor and equal justice under the law. Makes you wonder what their core beliefs actually are.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (rdl6o)

428 Are y'all seeing this news on Trump's food stamp overhaul?

Love this guy!

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (wfjqa)

429
Somebody else's dick

Posted by: Michael Dukakis at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (lKyWE)

or softballs like in a carnival.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (70cRb)

430 That's nothing.

Kehinde Wiley has a habit of adding sperm iconography in his 'paintings'. I'm not kidding, there's a history to this.

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1518548146887.jpg

https://tinyurl.com/y8ubeyl2

Obama literally has jizz on the side of his fucking head. In an official WH portrait. For the rest of time.

Posted by: Community Organizer at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (lsLJS)

431

There's got to be a ganja plant in there somewhere . . .

Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (OZmbA)

432 Are y'all seeing this news on Trump's food stamp overhaul?
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What????

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (vg8iE)

433 Looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Posted by: Papal Prunes and Prisms at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (7K43/)

434 Thumpinkie?

Posted by: Burger Chef at February 13, 2018 03:42 PM (RuIsu)

435

They took liberties to shrink his Elephant Ears too.

ahahaha

No tie.

He still looks like Joe Biden to me.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 13, 2018 03:42 PM (fceHP)

436 There's got to be a ganja plant in there somewhere . . .
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I smoked that shit before he could paint it.

Posted by: Barry at February 13, 2018 03:42 PM (vg8iE)

437 Nood.

Posted by: Flyguy at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (qCKDU)

438

Hey, at least the artist got those Don Knotts lips correct.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (OZmbA)

439 heh. 'The Gay Parisian' is on TCM. There's a guy in tights dancing, so...that must be him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (nBBdT)

440 or softballs like in a carnival.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob - cluelessly riding the 'short bus' of life

it's no fair when your balls go soft

Posted by: Rick in SK at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (FZYNt)

441 If you turn the photo clockwise, you can see the image of Robert E. Lee in his right hand.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (ATVNj)

442 Background has cut and paste leaf replicas and more sperm evidence

https://tinyurl.com/y9nfn4wd

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (aC6Sd)

443 366
....The style of Barack's painting reminds me of Magritte for some reason.....

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 03:32 PM (hvf9s)
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Hey, that makes sense. That's it, really!

Magritte deliberately painted in the realistic but non-painterly style of commercial advertisements --- as opposed to classic realism or impressionism.

You see this especially in his painting of the anonymous bourgeois, i.e., the guy with the hat. It's supposed to be flat, realistic but unreal, what we might call "photo-shopped."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 13, 2018 03:43 PM (0jtPF)

444
Off dork sock

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (lKyWE)

445 I have decided to give up Lent, For Lent

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (y3aQB)

446 It's just because you can't see her dick. Otherwise....

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 13, 2018 03:38 PM (7UW64)
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see my Posted by: 9th Circus Judge De Jour at February 13, 2018 03:40 PM (LrpB0, old sock and all.

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (LrpB0)

447 "I'm picturing Frazetta painting him on a throne of skulls with a scantily clad Melania posed next to him. Could work."

Exactly!

I almost suggested Larry Elmore, but he mostly does pin-up chicks. So for Melania's portrait?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (1O2zx)

448 Are y'all seeing this news on Trump's food stamp overhaul?

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Heard something about this earlier. Wants to deliver healthy food to the poor poor starving poor right to their door instead of forcing them to go out in the cold and miserable heat just to buy food, and also to keep from giving them credit cards to go buy popcorn and sub sandwiches and fraud.

It's racist and horrible and demeaning, of course.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (ks6bw)

449 430 That's nothing.

Kehinde Wiley has a habit of adding sperm iconography in his 'paintings'. I'm not kidding, there's a history to this.

http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1518548146887.jpg

https://tinyurl.com/y8ubeyl2

Obama literally has jizz on the side of his fucking head. In an official WH portrait. For the rest of time.
Posted by: Community Organizer at February 13, 2018 03:41 PM (lsLJS)

Reggie wanted to share his genetic material with the world. Is that so wrong?

Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (RD7QR)

450 May I make another point that doesn't seem to have been made yet (but probably has in the time it took me to write this):

Why on earth is there any excuse for a "Presidential Portrait" since the advent of flash photography?

Seriously?

Snap a goddamn polaroid of the bastard and get on with your lives.

It's the President, not the Emperor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2018 03:45 PM (jnLXM)

451 I have decided to give up Lent, For Lent

Posted by: DeploraBOT at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (y3aQB)
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i gave up being Catholic for Lent one year...

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 13, 2018 03:45 PM (LrpB0)

452 Reminds me of 'The Kramer' from Seinfeld

It looks absolutely stupid when lined up with all the other presidential portraits.

But hey, he's the smartest president we ever had
if thats the way he wants to be remembered . . .

Posted by: McCool at February 13, 2018 03:46 PM (KvRqW)

453 Reminds me of Chi-com propaganda posters.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2018 03:47 PM (P81rR)

454 Nood Steele.

Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at February 13, 2018 03:47 PM (RD7QR)

455 The artist is the Thomas Kinkade of portraiture.

Posted by: not the mama at February 13, 2018 03:47 PM (mx7rN)

456 Sad !

Disgusting too, but sad.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at February 13, 2018 03:47 PM (SUFnU)

457 Worst president has worst portrait.

Appropriate

Posted by: Malcolm Tex at February 13, 2018 03:49 PM (GSJcT)

458 GD all. Yes, B.O. was given an extra finger to flip ppl off, and his hand picked artist is a black panther sympathizing sham. Warhol painted more interesting soup cans, and that poison sumac background is a photo shop chop lazy repeat. All of this artist crap is lazy ripoffs. Actually it fits, a fake artist paints the fake prez. LMAO at the irony!

Posted by: BebeDahl at February 13, 2018 03:49 PM (yNyJy)

459 Under Hillary's Portrait:

Ceci n'est pas une president

Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:54 PM (64Uc5)

460 131 Wasn't there another Leslie Ann Down a few decades back? Another actress?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at February 13, 2018 03:05 PM (tRaq7)
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Leslie Ann Warren

Posted by: the Butcher at February 13, 2018 03:55 PM (DIosY)

461 Leslie Ann Warren too, she was Garner's squeeze in Victor/Victoria.

Posted by: BebeDahl at February 13, 2018 03:56 PM (yNyJy)

462 I meant Leslie Ann Down, she was the Russian spy in a Pink Panther movie, she was in Hanover Street, and she has aged really well. Was on a soap Bold & Beautiful a couple of years ago, played a cougar, she is still hot.

Posted by: BebeDahl at February 13, 2018 03:59 PM (yNyJy)

463 >>> Ceci n'est pas une president
Posted by: Mega at February 13, 2018 03:54 PM (64Uc5)

*golfclap*

Posted by: LizLem at February 13, 2018 04:00 PM (hvf9s)

464 Are y'all seeing this news on Trump's food stamp overhaul?

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Heard something about this earlier. Wants to
deliver healthy food to the poor poor starving poor right to their door
instead of forcing them to go out in the cold and miserable heat just to
buy food, and also to keep from giving them credit cards to go buy
popcorn and sub sandwiches and fraud.

It's racist and horrible and demeaning, of course.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 13, 2018 03:44 PM (ks6bw)

Racist and horrible and demeaning they may call it but it is brilliant in several ways. It eliminates the purchase of junk food, eliminates EBT cards being sold for 50 cents on the dollar AND eliminates liberal's complaints about "food deserts" which don't allow poor people to purchase good healthy foods (cause they have guards standing next to the carrots, I guess).

Also, as a marketing strategy it is pretty smart to piggy back on up-scale food services like Blue Apron by calling this the "Harvest Box program".

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 13, 2018 04:04 PM (9nCnN)

465 His artistic sense is fabulous!...I MUST have one for my collection!!!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at February 13, 2018 04:22 PM (9jM3M)

466 Five Fingered Nancy Boy and the Portrait Of Doom

Posted by: West at February 13, 2018 04:22 PM (LYc85)

467 346 Willow

lol!

Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 13, 2018 04:24 PM (CjE8v)

468 Late to the thread.

I actually like Kehinde Wiley's portrait of L.L. Cool J which is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. Alas, the more you hear about an artist or entertainer, the less you can enjoy his or her work.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 13, 2018 04:25 PM (qJtVm)

469

"Leslie Ann Down, she was the Russian spy in a Pink Panther movie, "

Oh, I watched that one over and over and over and over....

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz IVANOVICH at February 13, 2018 04:28 PM (4ihfq)

470

I'm kinda surprised President Barry O'Jugears didn't get a big painting of his crotch and just used that.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz IVANOVICH at February 13, 2018 04:31 PM (4ihfq)

471 I actually like Kehinde Wiley's portrait of L.L. Cool J which is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. Alas, the more you hear about an artist or entertainer, the less you can enjoy his or her work.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at February 13, 2018 04:25 PM (qJtVm)

LL Cool J's posture in his portrait exudes strength. FPOTUS is sitting posture is hunched over and protective. It makes him look very beta, which I guess is fairly accurate.

Posted by: not the mama at February 13, 2018 04:36 PM (mx7rN)

472 seriously, he looks like a guy nervously waiting in the reception to be called back for a job interview. All he's missing is the leather folder holding a legal pad and extra copies of his resume.

Posted by: not the mama at February 13, 2018 04:40 PM (mx7rN)

473 also he forgot to hire a leafblower before he started

Posted by: wth at February 13, 2018 05:05 PM (HgMAr)

474 at least he didn't show Barry's vestigial tail

Posted by: wth at February 13, 2018 05:07 PM (HgMAr)

475 Worst President Ever. Perfect!

Posted by: Muns at February 13, 2018 05:13 PM (fO+6C)

476 at least he didn't show Barry's vestigial tail

I don't know why but that made me laugh like a hyena.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at February 13, 2018 05:17 PM (QQ+il)

477 Could it be that with that extra finger, the Muslim ring is now on his middle finger -- as an in our face statement?

Remember on the campaign trail, he referred to visiting all "57 states". No way that was a mis-speak; that was similarly in our face and probably a outrageous "shout out"l to his soul mates, so to speak.

Posted by: TwoToTango at February 13, 2018 05:35 PM (FvyuI)

478 Barky's chosen artist also likes to paint through a "semen mist" or some such and put a spermatazoa on Barky's left temple at the hairline (your right facing picture).

Posted by: oddknot loves that there's NO DEALS at February 13, 2018 06:14 PM (g1MTt)

479 Bawack Ubama, sometimes Preezy, god-king.

Posted by: ConstantineXI at February 13, 2018 06:47 PM (AO+7t)

480 Opposable thumbs are so 20th century.

Posted by: Burger Chef at February 13, 2018 07:16 PM (RuIsu)

481 The Ghey Black 'artist' combines Garrett Morris's character with John Belushi's character from the Lifer Follies skit of SNL.

Posted by: Tim from Nashua at February 13, 2018 07:55 PM (EATOD)

482 I like the Geo Washington Trump: https://tinyurl.com/y7ebawfm

I like the God Emperor Trump
https://tinyurl.com/ybazq976

Anything will be a move up and higher class than the two most recent pics.

Posted by: Rolf at February 13, 2018 10:02 PM (uVq6n)

483 I'm calling it, the spooge on his head is the funniest thing that will happen all year. The only problem this presents going forward is, do I call him Bukkako-bama or just President Jizzhead?

Posted by: Allan at February 13, 2018 11:26 PM (k3yiP)

484 Turns out, the "guy" who painted this farms out the actual work of, you know, painting to Communist Chinese Slave Labor.

His work is "ghost-painted".

LOL!

Obama deliberately chose an "artist" famous for horrific kill-whitey decapitation "art" who has his work "ghost-painted" for him by Slave Labor in Communist China.

This is so perfect on so many levels.

Speaks volumes about who Obama is and what he stands for.

And that's without even getting into what an atrocious piece of filth the portrait turned out to be.

Posted by: Aarradin at February 14, 2018 05:00 AM (5kvQv)

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