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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
So the portraits, I'm not sure how I feel about the President's, but I think Michelle's a mistake. These things started as a way to preserve people's appearances for history. Of course that purpose went away with color photography.
Still, in a hundred years people will be walking through the First spouse* gallery looking at realistic painting after realistic painting. Then here is this pretty abstract representation. And of the most youthful attractive first lady since Jackie Kennedy. I'd have gone with a realistic look.
As to the President's, the lightness will certainly stand out as one walks down the line of paintings, but that fits his persona?
*By then we will have to have had a first gentleman, maybe even a gay couple?
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