Amy Sherald - I Painted Michelle Obama

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Amy Sherald painted the awesome official portrait of Michelle Obama that’s hanging in the National Portrait Gallery and she now has a new show at Hauser & Wirth in LA so we’re throwing back to our interview with her. We talk through the story around how she got the Michelle Obama commission and the artistic decisions she made in making that painting and we explore her life as a renowned portrait painter and as a heart transplant recipient who’s got someone else’s heart inside of her thanks to an operation that saved her life. She’s also a former rapper. And an all-around wonderful person. She’s an example of success coming to someone who believes in herself no matter what. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Satisfy your animal with pepperami pizza buns. ones. The day the paintings were unveiled my mom called and she said mmm I don't like the color of Michelle Obama's skin.
1:04.0	And I was like, that's what Amy Cheryl does.
1:06.9	And she's like, I don't like it.
1:08.8	And I'd like.
1:09.4	A lot of black people didn't.
1:12.4	Right. So take me back to now I'm conceiving this and I'm going to go with my skin choice. That's why she chose me. I didn't force that on her.
1:23.0	She knew that you were going to give her that gray black?
1:28.0	Absolutely. That's why I...
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