Discussion: Obama Portraits Unveiled At National Portrait Gallery

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I love them. Both are perfect.

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Love the portraits and love this couple. Also, look at them standing between their portraits. They love each other. They love our country.

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I know it’s not a portrait …

But I’d kinda like to see …

 A second and different set of portraits of the former first
   couple will eventually hang in the White House.

I hope they hurry with the ’ eventually ’ part …

It just might be the thing that forces donnie to move out ! —

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Kyle Griffin has a clip of Michelle speaking about the portrait. I miss everything about the Obamas. Their normal family, their obvious love and respect for each other, their respect for the Constitution.

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Sadly, there’s not enough carvable (carveable?) rock at Mt. Rushmore for another head. But maybe that’s a good thing–it could have been Reagan.

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I think Michelle’s portrait is awful. Nothing like her liveliness and strength. Barack’s is pretty good, but perhaps too literal.

(No, I do NOT fancy myself an art critic.)

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Bare arms and he’s not wearing a tie. Heads will explode!

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“The gallery has a complete collection of presidential portraits.”

I understand that Trump’s official portrait will include both a front view and a side view.

But no word yet on whether the booking number will be included.

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I love them both.

They have good taste in art. The paintings she picked for the residence were just beautiful.

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Excellent.
I found trump artist already practicing.

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I love Barack’s and I like Michelle’s…but I think she is prettier and it lacks her energy. It’s a little too pastel for such a vibrant woman.

The talks they gave at the unveiling were so wonderful. MISS them.

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Tiny little reproductions on the internet never do these kinds of things justice.

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I think these portraits are true likenesses of the real people they are, no pretension, showing strength, compassion and likeability.

I love them - both portraits and the people they reflect

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Funny I have the opposite opinion, not crazy about Barack’s (too much green) but I love Michelle’s.

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I miss them so much. I can’t even talk about it.

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The leaves in Obama’s portrait come from the Kenyan Waterpear Tree.

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Fun fact: I know the artist who painted Michelle’s portrait. We’re not best buds, much more like nodding acquaintances, but I see her in my neighborhood quite often. I like Michelle’s portrait but I am surprised at the pastel colors given her past work, which I love (http://www.amysherald.com if anyone wants to take a look).

I do miss this couple. Watching the unveiling today made me that much more depressed about the shit gibbon in the WH.

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Worse still, political correctness black artist who didn’t paint it the way a normal, regular, Real American artist would paint!

At last, after the long procession of nothingburgers being pumped out by biased fake news media and investigated for no reason at all by the totally biased ultra-left radical Mueller, a real scandal! Why isn’t the Washington Post and the New York Times reporting on this outrage?

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What betas! I look forward to Trumps 90 foot golden colossus!

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