![]() It looks very little like Michelle Obama /1CsRrWIJtN There were also plenty of armchair critics who weighed in on social media, slamming the portrait for looking “nothing like” the 54-year-old mother of two. “The dress forms a pyramid, with the face atop, in a way that suggests a protective carapace, hiding from view the first lady’s body and some of her femininity, which were targets of racist attack during her tenure in the East Wing,” Mr Kennicott said.Įddie Ayres, host of Radio National’s The Art Hub, said: “ has got all these incredibly strong qualities and for me, looking at it on my little computer screen, it doesn’t look like they have been really captured.” The Washington Post‘s art critic Philip Kennicott agreed with Mr Cotter that Mrs Obama’s dress was more of a focal point than her face – but argued this was an intentional choice by Ms Sherald. Mrs Obama’s face forms the composition’s peak, but could be almost anyone’s face, like a model’s face in a fashion spread.” The shape of the dress, rising pyramidally upward, mountain-like, feels as if it were the real subject of the portrait. “To be honest, I was anticipating - hoping for - a bolder, more incisive image of the strong-voiced person I imagine this former first lady to be,” Mr Cotter wrote. ![]()
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