Vegan Peter Max Paints 44 Obamas
Written by Vegetarian Star on February 15th, 2009 in Artists.
When vegan artist Peter Max wasn’t dining at Candle Cafe in his neighborhood, he was busy putting 44 faces on President Barack Obama.
Max has painted portraits of the U.S.’s last five presidents, and to celebrate Obama as the 44th president, Max painted 44 different portraits.
He used numerous photos provided to him by CBS and began working before the Christmas Holiday season.
He debuted the portraits CBS’ “The Early Show” last month.
This is not the first of a series of portraits Max has completed. After the 9/11 tragedy, he took nine months to paint all 343 faces of the firefighters who died that day for the American Heroes’ project, a gift to the firefighters’ families.
A portion of the money generated from the Obama portraits will go towards orphanages, according to Max.
Source: La Jolla Light
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