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Painting. In October 2017, it was announced that Wiley had been chosen by Barack Obama to paint an official portrait of the former president to appear in Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery "America's Presidents" exhibition. [ 1] The painting depicts Obama sitting in a chair seemingly floating among foliage. [ 2]
Sharon Sprung. Sharon Sprung is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York. She is primarily known for her portrait paintings such as Congressional portraits of Jeannette Rankin and Patsy Mink, as well as former First Lady Michele Obama 's official White House portrait. She is an instructor at the Art Students League of New York .
Situation Room is a photograph taken by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, [ 1] at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows U.S. president Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room receiving live updates from Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama ...
The portraits of President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are hitting the road for a five-stop tour next year. The Obama portraits are going on tour across the U.S. — see if they're coming to a ...
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (8 p.m., CNN) CNN airs the first two parts of HBO’s three-part documentary series about President Barack Obama, examining his personal and political ...
Kehinde Wiley (born February 28, 1977) [ 1] is an American portrait painter based in New York City. He is known for his naturalistic paintings of black people that reference the work of Old Master paintings. In 2017, Wiley was commissioned to paint former President Barack Obama 's portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
In the photorealistic portrait, Obama is dressed in a black suit with a gray tie, and painted against a minimal white backdrop, a signature of McCurdy's artworks. At the same time, the official portrait for First Lady Michelle Obama, painted by realism artist Sharon Sprung, was also unveiled. [32] [33] In First Lady Obama's oil painting ...
The Barack Obama "Hope" poster is an image of US president Barack Obama designed by American artist Shepard Fairey. The image was widely described as iconic and came to represent Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. [ 1][ 2] It is a stylized stencil portrait of Obama in solid red, beige and (light and dark) blue, with the word "progress", "hope ...