I don’t get the hand-on-hip pose of President Clinton’s presidential portrait. Rather than seeming casual — as Clinton said he wanted — it looks forced and awkward, particularly how his hip extends. Am I missing something? (And, please, keep your comments clean.)
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Phillip:”it looks forced and awkward, particularly how his hip extends. Am I missing something?”
Son, you were always missing something. Bill is one of us. Do I need to explain more?
Cheers,Lou
Lou
Phillip has raised a good point. The picture doesn’t do the man justice.
Though the banter between you and Phillip is refreshing, President Clinton might have been better served being talked out of that pose.
Looks like a David Caruso “power pose” from CSI:MIami!
The pose just looks like an awkward men’s clothing catalog pic.
“(And, please, keep your comments clean.)”
Okay . . . uh . . . arggghhh . . . shoot.
Clenis! Lookit! It’s my Clenis!
Looks like he is trying to suck his gut in also. ;)
He needs a new taylor and a better photographer. Doesn’t look like the years have been kind to him.
NoJoCo hit the nail on the head.
Sam nailed it on the head. It looks just like Caruso’s signature “power pose” you know the one he does in EVERY episode and ends up looking like a cheesy menswear ad.um, yeah.It would have been better if it wasn’t a direct side shot.
The unnatural posing of the 2 fingers on his hip looks like some kind of gang sign or something. And what is with holding a paper? Very weird.
Then again…drop by the California state capitol sometime, and peruse the official portraits of the various governors hanging throughout the building. They all look like “official” portraits, until you get to ‘governor Moonbeam” (Jerry Brown). His looks like an imitation Picasso done by a 4th grader. Honest…
raptor,
Hey, watch it! That’s the Mayor of Oakland you’re talking about!
Three cheers for bad public art!
cf…don’t take my word for it, check it out..Ok, now he is “Mayor Moonbeam”..
http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/govsgallery/h/biography/governor_34.html
Good old Moonbeam … Bill Clinton said he never inhaled … Moonbeam never EXHALED!
raptor,
Heeee-larious. I must say, compared to your description, which led me to expect something like ‘Guernica,’ the portrait struck me as, well, more Norman Rockwell. Still, nice reference.
Hey, is that a pickle in his pocket?
Since most men “hang left” it is common practice with expensive specially tailored suits to take the “angle of the dangle” into account.
W onder what they do with Clinton, since he allegedly has that pronounced “bend” for shooting around corners.
It looks like he wants to slouch but instead he has to stand up way to straight. I agree it looks like it is out of Men’s Warehouse fall menswear catalogue.
Slow news day?
Yes, KFG, must be a slow news day…Some idle speculation here for giggles
In “Mississippi Burning” Gene Hackman notes that members of the KKK had their pictures taken with the 3 middle fingers of each hand visible from the beltine or from the pants pockets.
I wonder if Clinton’s “V” is supposed to be suggestive of anything.
Brian,He’s doing a subdued version of Nixon “V for Victory”.teeheehee
Maybe to hold a cigar?
I think he had a cigar holder Ben… heheh.
He looks like Ted Kople (sp?) impersonating Clinton.
As much as I hate to knock a fellow artist, the drawing and composition seem to be just a bit off in that portrait. Looks like the painter is used to doing formal portraits, and got asked to do something more casual in this pose, and doesn’t quite have the hang of it yet.
He looks like door-stop material to me.
“Married WM seeking…”tee hee hee
don’t think he’ll use it for personal ads. then again, rumor has it that he doesn’t need to advertise.
I was going to write that Bush’s official portrait should be any horse’s ass you can think of.
But then I realized that this was unfair to horse’s asses–they don’t send troops into Iraq to be needlessly killed.
It’s the latest style in photo portraiture. My 6-year old daughter came home with the same pose for her school photo. So did my 14 and 16-year old granddaughters. And my 4-year old graddaughter. All girls. Hmmmmmm.
I think Patton had a similar pose, but he was showing off his pearl-handled pistol. Hmmmmmm. (That clean enough?)
Funny julie!
Ivory handled pistol.
This photo shows total arrogance and the disrespect that Clinton had for the office that he held for way toooooo long.
Thank goodness we got somebody in there who has restored the honor and dignity of the Oval Office, right, Woodlady?
“I don’t know how anybody got the idea that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11.” George W. Bush
Percent of soldiers fighting in Iraq who believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11 according to April Harper’s magazine– 85 percent.
It looks like he’s posting for GQ.