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Obama Painter Kehinde Wiley Known For Portraying Black Heroines Decapitating White Women

By Chris Menahan Barack Obama unveiled his official portrait as painted by artist Kehinde Wiley at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC on Monday. “Wiley typically portrays people of color posing as famous figures in Western art,” the Portrait Gallery said of his work. “Through this practice, he challenges the visual rhetoric of […]

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