Obama's presidential portrait revealed (with controversy)

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numberwang on 13 February 2018

Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were revealed Monday morning at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, where they will hang along with portraits of every past US president.

https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/3b/79/3b79d3d9-38d6-4e70-bfa1-d77ee6079f29/pa_npg_18_55_obama_r.jpg

The artist Kehinde Wiley was known to hide sperm in his former images, did he strike again with Obama?

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/13/obamas-painter-has-long-predatory-peverse-history-of-sneaking-sperm-into-paintings/

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ironmanDX on 13 February 2018

Hahaha! That's fucking awesome.

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JRPGfan on 13 February 2018

he does have vein's... but yeah not the best illustration.

"The artist Kehinde Wiley was known to hide sperm"

is that actually true? hes not just bad at painting or something? eeeewwwwwww.

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Cobretti2 on 13 February 2018

you reap what you sow

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SnakeDrake on 13 February 2018

JRPGfan said:

he does have vein's... but yeah not the best illustration.

"The artist Kehinde Wiley was known to hide sperm"

is that actually true? hes not just bad at painting or something? eeeewwwwwww.

He took the artist mark to a whole new level.

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PwerlvlAmy on 13 February 2018

Both paintings are pretty damn awful compared to all the previous presidential portraits. They should ask for their money back. Looks amateurish.

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Puppyroach on 13 February 2018

No, there is no controversy here, just people still obsessed with Obama.

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loy310 on 13 February 2018

That shit looks wack, but to be fair he was a wack prez.

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AngryLittleAlchemist on 13 February 2018

It looks like he's sitting in front of some medical marijuana.

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Aeolus451 on 13 February 2018

He also paints other interesting things into his paintings. 😽


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