Beyond Shepard Fairey: The many, many faces of Barack Obama

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<a href="http://obeygiant.com/">Shepard Fairey's</a> ubiquiutous blue and red <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/01/shepard-fairey.html">Obama "Hope" portrait</a> will soon be hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in DC. But he is far from the only artist to be inspired by Barack Obama. Here is a sampling of how other artists have interpreted the image of the president-elect, starting with this Obama portrait by artist Yan Pei-Ming from the Zwirner & Wirth gallery at Art Basel, Miami Beach, Fla.//By Deborah Netburn

Barack Obama by Yan Pei-Ming

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Shepard Fairey's ubiquiutous blue and red Obama "Hope" portrait will soon be hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in DC. But he is far from the only artist to be inspired by Barack Obama. Here is a sampling of how other artists have interpreted the image of the president-elect, starting with this Obama portrait by artist Yan Pei-Ming from the Zwirner & Wirth gallery at Art Basel, Miami Beach, Fla.//By Deborah Netburn

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