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Portrait painter chicago 1940 crilltman4/18/2023 Similarly, Rondeau said the museum is not thinking of the exhibit as a revenue builder but rather as a vehicle for drawing first-time Chicagoans who perhaps never saw themselves in the art there.ĩ. Wiley said he and Barack wanted to get across a certain accessibility in the portrait. In her memoir “Becoming,” Michelle, a South Shore native, describes visiting downtown occasionally as a child, traveling to the museum with her siblings “like astronauts in the capsule of my dad’s Buick.”Ĩ. On the Obamas’ first date in the late 1980s, they walked around the Art Institute, then went to see “Do the Right Thing” at Water Tower Place. Here, they’ll be side by side, slightly angled toward each other, “as if in dialogue,” Carter said.ħ. Since the Portrait Gallery’s paintings of presidents occupy a separate gallery within the museum, the two portraits of the Obamas were never intended to be exhibited in the same gallery space. We want this exhibition to become a turning point.”Ħ. For Rondeau, it’s a “revitalizing moment, a chance at last to see large, robust museum crowds - and to think of large, robust museum crowds as a good and safe thing once again. So, after years of negotiations, starting June 18, “The Obama Portraits” will be shown at the Art Institute for the next two months - the first exhibition of the portraits outside of Washington, and the opening stop of a five-city nationwide tour. Their story, he said, by nature of their local subjects, makes this “a Chicago story, and knowing the Obamas’ history with the city, and their history with the museum, any possibility to show the Obama portraits felt incredibly important.” To James Rondeau, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Obama portraits are, also, home. Since their 2018 unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the official state portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have been a pilgrimage for many, a curiosity for others, an argument for contemporary art, a clarion call for Black artists and a startling left-turn after decades of calcified propriety.
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