Obama Portraits!

I’ve tried.  I’ve tried to get behind the Obama portraits, to like them.  And I’ve failed.  I don’t like them.

I know there is symbolic importance in the vegetation that surrounds him.  Even so, the bushes diminish his power and presence.  Don’t like it.

About hers, I’m at a loss to find any symbolic or other justification for the dress, which overpowers the image.  As with his, this portrait of her diminishes her power and presence.  Don’t like it.