How unprofessional can you get…?
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I don’t like that the artist
painted the infamous Lewinsky blue dress into Bill Clinton's Presidential painting...
it’s basically putting his subjective opinion for the whole world to have to
choke down. Did he happen to paint a shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Bush's mantel? Or the mountain of debt in the fireplace he left America to deal
with? Besides, what Clinton did was personal, not professional, and it
certainly did NOT affect the entire world. Seriously?
I wish you would have just kept your
political opinions to yourself. This was completely unprofessional. So really, who is the liar? I am here to tell
you… they ALL are. But it speaks volumes about your character, and your beliefs.
If you are going to do this for one
President, who was a great President, that left the country in a surplus while
doctoring in many beneficial programs, by the way… then I hope you are not going
to be a hypocrite and only paint your honesty like you did for Clinton but for every
Presidential painting you do. I mean,
come on… Bush flat out lied to this country in order to go to war with Hussein
on a completely false premise all for his families personal gain… can you say
Oil? Lest not forget to mention that many people (both thousands of American soldiers
and Iraqi soldiers and civilians) were killed by Bush’s lie. In the lie meter, my
vote says Bush clearly takes the cake!
By the way… Did you do the same for
the Bush painting? My guess is no… You
don’t have the balls for that. Personally,
I think Shanks was a childish for painting the dress on the sly. Have some
balls and at least say what you did upfront so we can all be in on the joke! Waiting
years afterwards to drop your dirty little secret doesn’t say much for your
character professionally or personally; Shanks should be fired from all other
future artistic endeavors on professionalism alone. You were paid for a job and
you failed. And out of respect for a man who did many good things serving YOUR
country, out of respect for his hard work and dedication, you owe it to him to
repaint the Clinton portrait, sans the scandal. I can only imagine what the
portrait for Obama is going to look like.
Here is what I say… Let’s see your
own painting, shadows and all! Matthew 7:2-3: For with the judgment you
pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured
to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not
notice the log that is in your own eye?
Someone give me an axe. I am about
to chop down a fucking tree.
The story for future reference…
The artist who painted the official
White House portrait of President Bill Clinton says he quietly included a reference to the Monica Lewinsky
scandal — and the infamous blue dress — in his painting.
“If you look at the left-hand side
of it, there’s a mantel in the Oval Office,” Nelson Shanks told the Philadelphia Daily News. “I put a
shadow coming into the painting, and it does two things. It actually literally
represents a shadow from a blue dress I had on a mannequin, that I had there
while I was painting it, but not when he was there. It is also a bit of a
metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him.”
The revelation of Clinton’s affair
with Lewinsky, a White House intern, created a firestorm in American politics
and led to the president’s impeachment in 1998.
The 77-year-old Shanks, who has
painted everyone from Princess Diana to Pope John Paul II, said Clinton was the
hardest.
“The reality is he’s probably the
most famous liar of all time,” Shanks said. “He and his administration did some
very good things, of course, but I could never get this Monica thing completely
out of my mind, and it is subtly incorporated in the painting.”
The 2001 portrait is part of the
National Portrait Gallery’s collection, though Shanks says the 42nd president
would like it removed.
“The Clintons hate the portrait,”
he continued. “They want it removed from the National Portrait Gallery. They’re
putting a lot of pressure on them.”
But a museum spokesperson told ABC News that they have not received any requests
from the Clintons to remove the portrait.
The shadow is not the only
controversial part of the painting. When the portrait was unveiled in 2006, it
caused a minor stir because Shanks left out Clinton's wedding ring.
According to Shanks, Clinton
personally chose him to paint his official portrait. And in a 2001 interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Shanks
insisted he was taking the assignment seriously.
“There are times when I love to
play all kinds of complicated games in painting,” Shanks said. “But I think this
is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I’ll just try to paint
the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him
fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.”
Last year, Lewinsky wrote publicly
about the affair for the first time.
“It’s time to burn the beret and
bury the blue dress,” Lewinsky
wrote in an essay for Vanity Fair. “I am determined to have a
different ending to my story.
“I, myself, deeply regret what
happened between me and President Clinton,” she continued. “Let me say it
again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”
