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The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama were revealed in the Institution Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on February 12 and Oh what a big reveal was. Their portraits are really unique and the first of their kind. They talk about power and progress. They break the tradition of dark and dark presidential portrait. They are nothing like those painted before. And what is even more interesting, Barack and Michelle's Portraits have been made by different artists from different styles.

These presidential portrait spills are usually a ceremony quite dull and sneaky, but not this one. Obamas received a lot of attention and understandably. Not only former President Barack Obama and the first Lady Michelle Obama, the first Black Coupa made his presidential portraits, but the artists they ordered are also African-American.
The portraits themselves also differ strongly from any other painting of American presidents carried out before.

The portrait of Barack Obama was made by Kehinde Wiley, artists based in New York, known for its portraits and very naturalistic paintings of African Americans. Mr. Wiley represented Barack Obama sitting on a chair, but not as part of usual presidential office, but in what looks like a garden. In fact, it almost looks like a maughty maid is suspended in the middle of the air, in the middle of a beautiful and dynamic greenery. The colors of this paint are so striking and so far usual solemn solemn colors usually used for presidential portraits. There are also flowers in the background and they are there not only to bring even more color to painting, they have a meaning and actually tell the story of Obama's life.

African blue reads represent the country of origin of the father of Barck of Kenya, a link with his family and his heritage. Chrysanthemums are the official flower of Chicago, and it is the city where he met Michelle and began his family and political career. Pickake, or Arabian Jasmine, is a flower that represents Hawaii, where the former president spent most of his youth.


Michelle Obama chose Amy Scherald to paint his portrait. Amy is a Baltimore-based artist and his art began enough autobiographical but quickly took a social context. Amy Scherald is not so well known and Kehinde Wiley, but she is on the way. She became the first woman to win the portrait competition of the Outwin Boochever in 2016 and she recently received the Award David Driskell of the High Art Museum.

Amy Scherald painted the old first lady in her usual style, with silver skin, on a pastel background. The only thing that was unusual was Michelle's dress. Amy usually painted his subjects in their daily clothes, but Michelle was painted with a massive white dress, with simple geometric patterns. Although the portrait of Barack of Wiley is rather noisy, colorful and exuberant, the portrait of Scherald is quiet, rare, with a pastel blue background that does not allow a lot of distraction and focus on the subject.

These two magnificent works still get a lot of attention from the media and comments from people throughout the media, and rightly. They are certainly a few steps from old traditional portraits and we hope they will blur a new path in presidential portraits.