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15th of February, Friday

It is so excellent to own information! When I know something, I start to perceive these pictures quite differently!
BUT! I feel ashamed of everything I wrote about for the first two days.

Primarily, I started looking for explanations for the background in the portrait of the ex-president. And everything there is not casual! Each flower depicted there is a symbol. Together, they are references to the origin of Barack Obama and his career.
The colours on the painting “First Lady Michelle Obama” – it is also something more than just a random set of paints. The background is made in the style of American folk art, while the ornaments on the dress are the traces of the African-American fabric work and the working manner of Piet Mondrian (his work could also be chosen for writing a diary, but then I would not know that he "is" in the portrait of Michelle! I love different references!)

Although, stop! What is the connection here: why use the drawing style of a Dutch artist in the painting of the wife of the first African-American President of the United States?
Okay, maybe later I will find the answer.

What kind of clue I liked even more is that both Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald are African-American portraitists who often make people of colour heroes of their paintings.

Regarding serious, even a little sad faces of Mr and Mrs Obama - various resources suggest treating them as a manifestation of their focusing on a certain topic, a desire to solve some problem.