The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery commissioned artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to paint official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama respectively, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Wiley and Sherald are the first black artists hired by the museum to paint a president and first lady. The works will be unveiled and incorporated into its collection in 2018.

Both artists are celebrated for their mythic and buoyant depictions of black subjects. Wiley, who is 40 years old and based in New York, is known for painting contemporary male subjects in a style reminiscent of Old Masters portraiture, remixed.

Dressed in modern-day T-shirts and sneakers, baseball caps and tattoos, Wileys subjects are immortalized in regal poses of kings and saints, rendered against a vibrant, textile backdrop. The depictions juxtapose traditional notions of (mostly white) nobility with modern representations of power, swagger and ego.