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 (Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
An Obama sand sculpture by artist Sudarshan Pattnaik at Puri beach in India. (EPA)
An Obama portrait in a bottle by artist Basavaraju Somaraje Gowda in Bangalore, India. (Jagadeesh NV / EPA)
An Obama doll for sale in a Japanese town named Obama. (Toru Yamanaka / AFP / Getty Images)
An Obama portrait in cupcakes by Zilly Rosen of Buffalo, N.Y. (Charles Lewis / Associated Press)
An Etch-A-Sketch Obama that was on display in November at the Ohio Statehouse. (Ellen Dallager / Ohio Art Co.)
Superman Obama, as seen on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on Nov. 5, the day after the presidential election. (Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Images)
This Obama portrait by a San Francisco artist who goes by the name Eddie was displayed at the Manifest Hope Gallery during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Courtesy of Manifest Hope)
L.A. artist Scott Siedman’s “Man From Illinois” will be displayed at the Manifest Hope Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., during the inauguration. ()
“Change USA” by Derek Gores from Melbourne, Fla., will be displayed at the Manifest Hope Gallery in Washington, D.C., during the inauguration. ()
This oil painting by Elizabeth Peyton is titled “Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.” (Associated Press)
Photographed in November: a McCain vs. Obama poster pasted on a wall in Los Angeles. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)
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 depicted in a framed Time magazine cover for sale in Chicago’s South Side on Nov. 4. (David Guttenfelder / Associated Press)
Italian painter Daniele Donde and his portrait of Obama at an exhibit in Bucharest, Romania. (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)
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 magnets at the Political Americana store in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Obama as Uncle Sam? A portrait by Russian painter Farid Bogdaov in Moscow. (Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty Images)
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)
