http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-21926 n Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:33:40 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/#comment-21926 sad, sad,sad… this artist must have be going through life very sad & unfulfilled

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-21901 Portrait Artist Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:29:45 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/#comment-21901 I like the portrait of Michelle Obama. It has mood and colour and is interesting.

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-9507 Lizzypea Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:10:52 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/#comment-9507 This is exactly what I talk about in my “Painting or Profession” blog post last week at http://www.blizzypea.blogspot.com. I can’t comment on this painting because I am not seeing it in situ, but the whole enterprise stinks of opportunism. It’s not surprising that someone said Payton cannot seem to handle people who have not stepped out of fashion magazines, flat white people blown out by spot lights so that wrinkles become the stuff of myth. Pictures never lie, do they? I’ve never believed in Payton, and now even less. Yuk!

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-9486 Jennifer Doyle Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:12:29 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/#comment-9486 I’ve always suspected that Peyton’s “thing” wouldn’t work well for people who don’t glow with the palour of the east coast cosmopolitan set that normally people her paintings. I like the comparison to Wiley. We can learn a lot from comparing the two – the casualness of Peyton’s touch, vs the high technical mastery of Wiley’s. The seductiveness of her paintings is related to how loose they feel, how casual and casually drawn they appear. (Which of course takes enormous talent & skill – but it’s effect depends on downplaying that.) Wiley’s is the opposite – full-on mastery of convention, almost overwhelming in his control over the medium – in which the paintings seem to nearly take over their subjects. I think of it as the difference between that version of white wealth in which people walk around in ripped up jeans & never clean their kitchens – and the formality of sunday at a black church where everybody turns out in their finest. Show up to a Peyton opening, and you’ll see a lot of $300 jeans. Show up to a Wiley opening, and you’ll see men in nice suits and ladies in hats. At least, that’s how his opening went in LA a couple years back!

]]> http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-9482 Marc Mayer Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:07:53 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/2008/12/04/the-obamas-arrive-at-the-new-museum/#comment-9482 Merrily, You are totally right about this portrait. It reminds me of Kodak color film in the 70′s and 80′s having difficulty capturing darker skin. I am not sure Wiley is the best “master” of painting for Peyton to learn from, but perhaps Barkley L. Hendricks. I recently saw The Birth of Cool at the Studio Museum and the man can really paint. I enjoyed the show.

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