Secondly, I could hardly focus my attention on the subject of the painting due to the annoyingly distracting background with repeating patterns like antebellum wallpaper.
Note the red boxes showing duplicated patterns. There are additional.
"Repeating patterns that look like antebellum wallpaper is a Wiley thing and is a recurring feature in much of his work, or rather the work of artists (to be kind) in China, where much of Kehinde Wiley’s art is produced ("painted" is not exactly the right word).
Note the repeating patterns in the Hussein portrait, like so many layers of a fabricated PDF birth certificate, successfully sold to the American people by Hussein and his trained seals in the mainstream media as the real deal....
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