We’ve documented how WorldNetDaily and the Media Research Center went into a calculated freakout of a couple of paintings of women holding severed heads done by Kehinde Wiley, painter of the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, refusing to acknowledge their context as reinterpretations of classic Renaissance-era art themes.
Now, NewsBusters blogger Tom Blumer feels the need to share his ignorant take on the situation:
MRCTV’s Brittany M. Hughes reported Monday that Kehinde Wiley, Barack Obama’s official portrait artist, previously created two paintings of black women holding white women’s severed heads, making him the art world’s equivalent of Donald Trump severed-head comedienne Kathy Griffin. Additionally, Wiley, described in New York Magazine as “possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation,” outsources much of “his” painting to China to “cut costs.” Establishment press coverage has virtually ignored these components of Wiley’s background, but their descriptions of Obama’s involvement in selecting him reveal his almost certain awareness of the artist’s full portfolio.
[…]Revelations that a foreign country-outsourcing portrait artist for a white president had created paintings showing severed heads of blacks would dominate the news cycle for days.
And if Wiley was the portrait artist for a white president, Blumer would be praising his outsourcing as a prime example of capitalism in action.
Blumer already doesn’t understand how the media works, so it’s no surprise he doesn’t understand art or art history either.