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President Grover Cleveland’s new Post Conceptual Essence Portrait uses strokes that are the original letters of the Ten Commandments. the text of Exodus 20.

Exodus 20 had to have been well known to Grover Cleveland since childhood as his father was a Presbyterian minister.

Grover Cleveland was the first democrat elected after the Civil War. He is the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later, making him both the 22nd and 24th president.

Exodus 20 – The Ten Commandments (Grover Cleveland)

by Judy Rey Wasserman

During his second term in office, beginning in 1993, he faced the kinds of problems that the USA faces again today. The country was in an acute depression. He dealt directly with the Treasury crisis rather than with business failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. There were also problems with immigration, back then with the Chinese.

Although he was at the time considered a classic liberal Democrat his fiscal policies and actions seem quite conservative by today’s standards. He was also reformer who worked against political corruption, patronage and bossism.

Grover Cleveland is the only president who was married in the White House. While this seems romantic, Cleveland was strongly against suffrage for women.

My continuing Essence Portraits series of the presidents of the USA and soon other notable historical patriots now includes this new portrait of Grover Cleveland. Like all of my Essence Portraits of the presidents, all of the strokes are the original letters of Exodus 10 (The Ten Commandments). The basis for most of the Western world’s democratic laws, including the Constitution and ideas behind it are credited to the universal laws of the commandments.

The portraits include liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. The meanings of my art are inherent in my strokes.

To see more of the new Twenty-first Century art theory of Post Conceptual Essence Portraits (including variations on Lincoln and Washington watch the video below:

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