White House gets an 'arty' makeover.Byline: ANI London, Oct 8 (ANI): US President Barack Obama and wife Michelle have given a makeover to White House with some modern and abstract artwork. The landscapes, still life and portraits of the past have been replaced by bold colours, irregular shapes and squiggly squig·gle n. A small wiggly mark or scrawl. intr.v. squig·gled, squig·gling, squig·gles 1. To squirm and wriggle. 2. To make squiggles. lines. The abstract works by modern art icons Jasper Johns Noun 1. Jasper Johns - United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930) Johns and Mark Rothko Noun 1. Mark Rothko - United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970) Rothko , as well as sculptures by Degas Degas To release and vent gases. New building materials often give off gases and odors and the air should be well circulated to remove them. Mentioned in: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity , are sharing hanging space with contemporary African-American and Native-American pictures by relatively obscure artists. Patent models for a gear cutter and a steamboat steamboat: see steamship. steamboat or steamship Watercraft propelled by steam; more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle-wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, particularly the Mississippi River and its tributaries. paddlewheel have also found a place in the Oval Office. Michelle has borrowed some 45 works from local museums to decorate both their private living quarters and the public spaces of the East and West Wings. The Obamas have decked their living room with Glenn Ligon's Black Like Me No. 2, a 1992 "text painting" that reproduces some of the contents of Black Like Me, a 1961 book by a white man who travelled the American South disguised as a black man. Michael Smith, the Obamas' decorator visited Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery in Washington, shortly before Barack's inauguration to see what could be borrowed. "The First Lady had clear ideas about what they were aiming for. They knew their tastes, and Michael Smith knew a lot about their tastes," the Telegraph quoted William Allman, the White House curator, as saying. Praising Obamas' modern taste, Allen said other recent first families hung a few modern pieces in their living quarters but none approached the scope of the Obamas. Richard Feigen, a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of art dealer, described the list as "highly sophisticated", adding: "We're encouraged as far as the art world. We feel we have someone now in the White House who is saying that culture is an important part of this country." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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