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President Barack Obama is an oil-on-canvas portrait of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, completed by the artist Kehinde Wiley in 2018 for the National Portrait Gallery. Painting [ edit ]
First Lady Michelle Obama, initially titled Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, is a portrait of former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, painted by the artist Amy Sherald. Unveiled in 2018, it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C.
Sprung based the painting on several photographs. [5] According to Maegan Vazquez of CNN, the portrait shows Obama "appearing to take a brief moment to get comfortable inside one of the most formal rooms in the White House". [5] Vazquez also noted that it was the first time such a portrait depicted someone in a strapless dress. [5]
Sharon Sprung, the Brooklyn artist who painted the iconic official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, has a new powerful female subject: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Yellen, 78 ...
Barack and Michelle Obama made history with their presidential portraits featured at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. 5 things to know about Kehinde Wiley, the artist behind Barack ...
Kehinde Wiley, best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama, has spent years traveling Africa to paint heads of state. With the project, he wants to open a discussion about how we see power.
In 2017, Wiley was commissioned to paint former President Barack Obama's portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The Columbus Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007 and describes his paintings as "heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture." [2]
Ahead of a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artist talks to Bazaar about painting Michelle Obama, entering the canon, and creating moments of stillness with art.