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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswhat is the deal with time magazine's image of angela merkel? just looked at the series of
"persons of the year"--and hers is the only one that is a painting--and a very unattractive one, at that.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)niyad
(113,348 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Because Time didn't choose "that awful image". They commissioned him to do a painting and used the one he produced.
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"What I wanted to bring out was something that photography has never caught: a sense of compassion, dignity and humanity.
"I'm thinking particularly of her stance this year."
"What I wanted to do was to portray that, so that whenever people looked at her face and looked into her eyes in the portrait a sense of empathy and compassion would come through."
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So, you think he's lying and that Time said, "make it really ugly." Is that it?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Why care about conservatives, or how they are portrayed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union_of_Germany
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)She did nothing, just reaping the harvest of Schröder's reforms.
While planting the seeds of future confrontation over secular democracy vs religion.
Well done, Angela Dummkopf Merkel.