Former President Obama joked that the artist behind his official White House portrait had talked him 'out of wearing a tan suit' -- and also spoke about what he hopes the artwork means to White House visitors.
"We're not looking for a gestural moment," McCurdy said in an interview recently with the White House Historical Association, which acquires and funds official portraits of presidents and first ladies."We're looking for a more meditative or transcendent moment."Years later, those instructions have translated into a strikingly different style of official presidential painting.
Sprung has had a long career in figurative painting, including paintings for Congress, and has a connection to past-White House portraits: When she was younger, she developed an artistic relationship with Aaron Shikler, who painted iconic White House portraits of John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan."I don't want it to look like it was done in 2013, or whatever.
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