It's funny--for me, Amy Sherald's stuff works best in a dreamy, generic sense, and while Michelle Obama doesn't *not* look like her, it's also not the intensely naturalistic portraiture that people are used to, and a lot of folks who don't look at portraits very often are going to be interested in this one and wonder why it doesn't "look like her" in that sense. That said, the dress and pose are amazing and convey exactly that quality that so many people love about her so much. (By the way, that was "groundedness" above and not "roundedness!" Darn auto-correct! Unlike me, Michelle Obama doesn't have much "roundedness" about her.)
Isn't LL Cool J fabulous? Wiley's exaggerated style is much more suited to him than Obama. I do like the Obama portrait enormously, though.
I've been thinking about friendship a lot recently--something sparked by recent visits but also reading about a study that showed that a significant percentage of people who feel that someone is a friend don't have that sentiment reciprocated. Somehow that touched me and got me thinking. So much unrequited love fic and so little unrequited friendship! M.
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Date: 2018-03-19 04:58 pm (UTC)Isn't LL Cool J fabulous? Wiley's exaggerated style is much more suited to him than Obama. I do like the Obama portrait enormously, though.
I've been thinking about friendship a lot recently--something sparked by recent visits but also reading about a study that showed that a significant percentage of people who feel that someone is a friend don't have that sentiment reciprocated. Somehow that touched me and got me thinking. So much unrequited love fic and so little unrequited friendship! M.