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A surprising influence on Obama’s portrait: Abraham Lincoln
02-14-2018, 12:51 PM (This post was last modified: 02-14-2018 12:59 PM by My Name Is Kate.)
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RE: A surprising influence on Obama’s portrait: Abraham Lincoln
Kehinde Wiley had toyed with the idea of having Obama holding a basketball in the portrait. Wiley also has painted two portraits of black women holding the severed heads of white women. This was supposedly a jocular statement on the "kill whitey thing," and a rejection of white standards of beauty as it applies to women.

Obama's hands, especially the one with six fingers, are huge. I can't help wondering if that might be a reference to the President Trump "tiny hands" debate, which leads some to speculate that another part of his body must also therefore be tiny.

I think President Lincoln must be rolling in his grave at the mere thought of Obama being likened to him in any way at all.
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