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

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

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  (Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)

Click through to see how 19 artists have interpreted the presidential image.

Barack Obama in a bottle by Somaraje Gowda

An Obama portrait in a bottle by artist Basavaraju Somaraje Gowda in Bangalore, India.  (Jagadeesh NV / EPA)

Obama doll in Obama, Japan.

An Obama doll for sale in a Japanese town named Obama.  (Toru Yamanaka / AFP / Getty Images)

Obama portrait in cupcakes by Zilly Rosen

An Obama portrait in cupcakes by Zilly Rosen of Buffalo, N.Y.  (Charles Lewis / Associated Press)

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Superman Obama

Superman Obama, as seen on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on Nov. 5, the day after the presidential election.  (Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images)

Obama art McCain vs. Obama

Photographed in November: a McCain vs. Obama poster pasted on a wall in Los Angeles.  (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Obama and Martin Luther King Jr.

A poster depicting Obama and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a Nov. 5 celebration in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami.  (Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press)

Obama Time magazine

Obama depicted in a framed Time magazine cover for sale in Chicago’s South Side on Nov. 4.  (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)

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Daniel Donde Obama portrait

Italian painter Daniele Donde and his portrait of Obama at an exhibit in Bucharest, Romania.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

Obama Russian doll

A matryoshka doll with Obama’s image is flanked by the likenesses of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at an art market in Chisinau, Moldova.  (John McConnico / Associated Press)

Obama art magnets

Obama magnets at the Political Americana store in Washington, D.C.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Obama as Uncle Sam by Farid Bogdaov

Obama as Uncle Sam? A portrait by Russian painter Farid Bogdaov in Moscow.  (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty Images)

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Obama by Jeffrey Deitch

Jeffrey Deitch of the Deitch Gallery talks to people about a painting of Obama by Kurt Kauper during the Art Basel Miami Beach show last month.  (Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)

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