{"id":130008,"date":"2023-12-22T05:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130008"},"modified":"2023-12-22T05:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:45:01","slug":"obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=130008","title":{"rendered":"Obama portraitist turns his brush to African presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed American artist Kehinde Wiley \u2014 known for portraying former US president Barack Obama and U.S. pop star Michael Jackson \u2014 has turned his brush to Africa. His \u201cA Maze of Power\u201d exhibit in Paris, portrays 11 former and current African presidents, exploring power through the lens of historical European portrait painting&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents\/7372038.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed American artist Kehinde Wiley \u2014 known for portraying former US president Barack Obama and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/130008-obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}