The artist commissioned by the Smithsonian to paint President Barack Obama’s official portraits has a controversial past.
One reoccurring theme in Kehinde Wiley’s paintings (besides romanticizing the Black Panthers and floral prints) is something out of a drug-induced nightmare: black women beheading white women.
The Washington Examiner reports:
There are at least two instances where Kehinde Wiley painted portraits of black women holding a knife in one hand and the decapitated head of a white woman in the other.
Kehinde Wiley the man who painted @POTUS44 presidential portrait has paintings showing blacks beheading whites pic.twitter.com/PvKCLXf78W
— Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) February 12, 2018
In an interview with New York Magazine, Wiley said one of the controversial portraits was based on a stay-at-home mom he found at the mall and the woman’s head she was holding was based on one of his assistants.
“It’s sort of a play on the ‘kill whitey’ thing,” Wiley told NYMag.
Both Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits, which were revealed on Monday, have received widespread public criticism.
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