Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Obama's official portraits...not a joke Date:   2/18/2018 11:43:23 PM

As I undrstand it, the Obamas hand picked these artists, so they must have looked at some of their other paintings before deciding on these two.  I saw an interview with the woman that painted Michelle and she said that she wanted to paint something that would show how unique and important these to were.  She was a starving artist pretty much before being picked by the Obamas and now her paintings are selling for $50K  each. Mostly she paints black people that she finds on the street and photograghs.  I wish she had captured that disapproving mouth of Michelle, when things aren't going that way.  Or they could have painted her in her baseball cap and jeans in Target.  As far as I'm concerned these portraits are a disgrace.