{"id":21538,"date":"2017-01-19T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2017\/01\/art-fit-president\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T12:50:25","slug":"art-fit-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2017\/01\/art-fit-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Fit For A President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1929522_1965695,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a640738d970c-500wi\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I Think I&#8217;ll &#8230;&#8221;, Ed Ruscha, 1983 Ruscha is famous for his series of witty word paintings, like this one about decision and indecision.\u00a0On loan during Obama&#8217;s White House<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tomorrow is moving day for the Presidents. How much control does a President have over art in the White House you ask? According to Slate.com: &#8220;For both public and private spaces, the president&#8217;s family can sort through first-rate spoils instead of relying on shopping trips. There&#8217;s a White House storage house with old furniture (like four-poster beds) and an art collection with about 500 sculptures, drawings, and paintings (including works by Norman Rockwell and Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe) obtained as gifts or by previous first families and the White House curator. Traditionally, presidents select portraits of their favorite predecessors to line the walls.&#8221; There is also a\u00a0tradition of\u00a0commissioning portraits of the presidents and first ladies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1929522_1965694,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/01\/watusi-hard-edge-1963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watusi (Hard Edge), Alma Thomas, 1963 An African American, Thomas was a longtime resident of Washington. A work inspired by one of the cut-paper collages of Henri Matisse, Watusi previously hung in the East Wing office of Michelle Obama.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to The Wall Street Journal, &#8220;the Obamas borrowed art from\u00a0the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The National Gallery of Art including \u201cSky Light\u201d and \u201cWatusi (Hard Edge),\u201d a pair of blue and yellow abstracts by lesser-known African-American abstract artist Alma Thomas, acclaimed for her post-war paintings of geometric shapes in cheery colors. The National Gallery of Art loaned the family at least five works, including \u201cNumerals, 0 through 9,\u201d a lead relief sculpture by Jasper Johns, \u201cBerkeley No. 52,\u201d a splashy large-scale painting by Richard Diebenkorn, and a blood-red Edward Ruscha. The Jasper Johns sculpture was installed in the residence on Inauguration Day, along with modern works by Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson, also on loan from the National Gallery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1929522_1965691,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dg19s6hp6ufoh.cloudfront.net\/pictures\/4501\/large\/richard-diebenkorn-berkeley-n-52-1955-ost-Richard%20Diebenkorn%20(EUA%201922-%201993).jpeg?1325543872\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley No. 52, Richard Diebenkorn, 1955 One of the best-known West Coast abstractionists, Diebenkorn made paintings that evoked the light and landscape of the Pacific coast.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to keep our eyes and ears open to find out what artwork will be on loan\u00a0during the new administration.\u00a0Collectors say the art selected by presidents for installation in the White House\u00a0likely affect the artists\u2019 market values \u2014 or at least raise their profiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much control does a President have over art in the White House you ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,670],"tags":[2167,2168,2169,2170,2171,2172,2173,2174],"class_list":["post-21538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-history","category-art-styles-and-mediums","tag-alma-thomas","tag-art-at-the-white-house","tag-ed-ruscha","tag-obama-artwork","tag-presidential-art","tag-richard-diebenkorn","tag-trump-artwork","tag-white-house-artwork"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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