Barack and Michelle Obama Portraits Revealed at #NPG; Artist Kehinde Wiley Has Interesting Portfolio
February 12, 2018
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18:19Now PlayingBarack and Michelle Obama Portraits Revealed at #NPG; Artist Kehinde Wiley Has Interesting Portfolio
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as posted by the channelBrand new portraits of former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama were revealed on Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Kehinde Wiley painted Barack Obama sitting in a chair, elbows in his knees, leaning forward with an intense expression. The background, typical of a Wiley painting, is a riotous pattern of intense greens.
"Pretty sharp," Obama said with a grin.
Amy Sherald, a Baltimore-based artist, painted Michelle Obama sitting in a floor-length gown, chin on her hand, looking directly at the viewer with a calm, level gaze.
The paintings, like the presidency they honor, are a historic first. Wiley and Sherald — both already famous for their portraits of black Americans — are the first black painters to receive a presidential portrait commission from the museum.
Celebrities from Shonda Rimes to Steven Spielberg, former administration officials from Josh Earnest to Eric Holder, and members of the media filed into the Portrait Gallery's expansive, glass-covered central courtyard for the ceremony. Kim Sajet, the director of the gallery, told the audience that a portrait was not truly finished until a viewer, a member of the public, had a personal encounter with it.
Then came the unveiling — quite literally, as fabric covers were pulled off the portraits on a small stage.
(ARTICLE: NPR)
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