Nearly 3,000 Paintings Of President Obama Are On View Together In NYC
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama took office as the 44th president of the United States. And that same morning, artist Rob Pruitt painted his portrait.
First Pruitt projected a photo of the president onto a two-by-two-foot canvas, which was first airbrushed to fade from blue to red in a muted, dreamlike wash. The artist then used white paint to emphasis Obama’s image, resulting in a restrained yet intimate picture, rendered faintly in the colors of the American flag.
Pruitt did the same thing the next morning. And the next. And the next. Using a different Obama image each time, gleaned from news clips and Google image searches, he captured Obama at his desk in the Oval Office, playing basketball, or speaking at a rally. Pruitt continued his ritual of quietly painting the president in red, white and blue every day throughout Obama’s presidency. He has amassed nearly 3,000 paintings in the process.
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