# En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" video:  who is on the black-and-white portrait?

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**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/en-vogues-free-your-mind-video-who-is-on-the-black-and-white-portrait/825702 "2018-12-06T19:40:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/en-vogues-free-your-mind-video-who-is-on-the-black-and-white-portrait/825702/1 "2018-12-06T19:40:05Z")

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In the video for “[Free Your Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE),” they repeatedly show a large black-and-white photo or painting on a wall of a man shouting. It can first be seen at about five seconds into the video. Does anyone know if this is picture is a well-known person?

As a side note, I read _1984_ in school a year or two after the video came out. For some reason, I always picture Big Brother as the man in the portrait from the video, even though Big Brother’s description in the book does not match the portrait at all.

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**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/en-vogues-free-your-mind-video-who-is-on-the-black-and-white-portrait/825702/2 "2018-12-06T20:07:13Z")

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Here’s a pic to help anyone that might be familiar with it, but it doesn’t seem to be a popular artwork.

[https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FjQQ9pf3COT8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjQQ9pf3COT8&docid=zC9K4xnaC2iVfM&tbnid=d3IoLbPYrmxD6M%3A&vet=10ahUKEwixhZP4\_4vfAhUEJt8KHdwPCAkQMwh9KDEwMQ..i&w=480&h=360&bih=976&biw=1920&q="Free%20Your%20Mind"%20"En%20Vogue"%20video%20art%20%20wall&ved=0ahUKEwixhZP4\_4vfAhUEJt8KHdwPCAkQMwh9KDEwMQ&iact=mrc&uact=8](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FjQQ9pf3COT8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DjQQ9pf3COT8&docid=zC9K4xnaC2iVfM&tbnid=d3IoLbPYrmxD6M%3A&vet=10ahUKEwixhZP4_4vfAhUEJt8KHdwPCAkQMwh9KDEwMQ..i&w=480&h=360&bih=976&biw=1920&q=%22Free%20Your%20Mind%22%20%22En%20Vogue%22%20video%20art%20%20wall&ved=0ahUKEwixhZP4_4vfAhUEJt8KHdwPCAkQMwh9KDEwMQ&iact=mrc&uact=8)

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**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/en-vogues-free-your-mind-video-who-is-on-the-black-and-white-portrait/825702/3 "2018-12-06T20:25:37Z")

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The Green Hornet?