Obama's got a sperm on his left temple....no joke
https://imgur.com/V5cVCkg
Wiley does this in other paintings as well.
"The background is also infused with tiny paintings of sperm—Wiley’s way of poking fun at the highly charged masculinity and propagation of gendered iden y that are involved in the Western tradition of portraiture. This particular subgenre of portraiture—the equestrian portrait—is particularly infused with the lineage of male power. From classical Rome to post-revolutionary France, political and military leaders on horseback have evoked and perpetuated social norms of masculine might and control (for example, this equestrian portrait of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius)."
https://smarthistory.org/kehinde-wil...over-the-alps/
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