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Chuck Close Poster
Limited edition 18'' x 24'' poster. A reproduction of Chuck Close's print portrait of President Obama. Only 2,013 available, created especially for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Made in the USA.
$100
Order here: https://store.2013pic.org/featured-on-homepage/chuck-close-poster.html?source=3T
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Love your sig, ZH! 
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It looks like someone simply degraded a quality photo of the president with a pixelation program and stepped back to accept accolades and undeserved cash, which according to his Wikki, is exactly how he "creates".
He's no Shepard Fairey, and at $200,000 gross, it ranks to me as the same opportunistic money making scam as those quarters with Obama stickers pasted on and sold in a plastic jewel box. I wouldn't hang that in my home unless I needed something to cover a stain on the wall by my basement water heater.
Maybe it's like impressionism, where the further away from the painting the viewer stands, the more they can appreciate it. I'd begin from a couple miles then walk slowly backwards.
The opinion of others certainly may differ, but I'll be the first on my block to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Michael Moore can cut me a check for this masterpiece later:
There goes seven minutes down the drain.
Perhaps you would like, as I do, the work of painter Scott Fraser.
http://www.sfraser.com/pages/paintings01.html
Here's a video about the making of his painting, "Reign."
I've never heard of him, but I like what I see. At times it was hard to tell his subject in the video from the canvas. My favorite photo-realism paintings are of subjects that are impossible to occur in the physical world, though.
I'll soften my criticism of the Close work and just say that I really don't like the pose by Obama. As you recall in the 2008 work by Fairey Shepard, Obama was looking stalwart and resolutely upward, as if he was facing an uncertain future with confidence and courage. In the Close portrait it's as if he's saying: "How ya doin' ?". Those white dots are distracting too.
If I could pick someone to paint the inaugural poster, I don't think I'd choose an artist like Close. I'd go with someone who actually paints posters. As my avatar would indicate, that'd be the great '60s pop artist Peter Max.
They could have just picked any one of his "44 Obamas", and I may have bought a poster myself:
On edit: I'm beginning to like the pixelled image I created of Michael Moore better everytime I look at it, so maybe that style can grow on me.
I've always liked this self-portrait by Chuck Close. It makes me wish I lived in the 60s and was a political radical.
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