11 Things Obama's Official Presidential Portrait Looks Like
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/12/11-things-obamas-official-presidential-portrait-looks-like/
Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their official portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Monday morning.
The reveals occurred before a star-studded audience and received a mixed reaction online.
All modern president's have their portraits hanging in the museum.
President Obama chose Kehinde Wiley as his painter. Wiley's style is described as:
A Yale University-trained painter famous for his depiction of African-Americans posed in the style of Old Master paintings, regal, formal and filled with pops of color.
"How about that? That's pretty sharp," Obama said after the unveiling. However, many critics online thought the painting was peculiar, at best.
The Daily Caller asked some of it's writers for suggestions about what the painting looked like to them.
Here are {some of the} suggestions we received from our staff:
Homer Simpson
Beyonce
Kim Jong Il
Kim Il Sung
Wrigley Field
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