The Obama White House’s Plagiaristic, Silly Art

by Ben Shapiro

**UPDATE 11/5** Obama drops painting, throws Alma Thomas under the bus.

Want to know the Obama Administration’s idea of what constitutes art?  There’s no better place to look than the newly-reconstituted White House art collection.  So what’s there?  How about this gem:

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Yes, it is boring and banal.  It does look like your three-year-old’s recent construction paper cut-out from pre-school – the one she made with the rounded scissors.  It’s Watusi (Hard Edge), by black painter Alma Thomas.

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Now here’s Henri Matisse’s The Snail (1953).

Notice any similarities?  How about now: (more…)

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Posted Oct 12th 2009 at 8:22 am in Art, Obama | 426 Comments