Pushpin Jesus: Artist Rob Surette Creates Jesus Portrait With 24,790 Thumbtacks (PHOTOS)

Up close, this work of art may seem like an ambiguous blob, but take a step back and you might just have a divine vision.

Self-described "artistic superstar" Rob Surette used 24,790 colored thumbtacks to create his pushpin portrait of Jesus.

Working one hour a day, seven days a week, Surette took six months to complete the 22-square foot mural, according to Oddity Central. The white, black, red, yellow, green, blue, magenta and purple pushpins blend together to create a vivid portrait of Jesus.

No stranger to the pointillism form, the 40-year-old artist also holds the record for the world's largest Lite-Brite creation, built from 513,000 tiny plastic light filters, the North Andover Patch reported in July 2011.

The portrait is valued at $250,000.

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[yovinny100]

07:21 AM on 02/27/2012

Wow, an hour a day! You gotta admire his work ethic.

[LeeRose]

09:06 PM on 02/26/2012

Pretty but it's not Jesus. He had darker skin and curly hair. Why do people still believe Jesus was a fair, blonde and had blue eyes now? Before I could understand but now with technology and more information available, there is no excuse for pictures like this one

[Just My Thoughts 2011]

04:06 PM on 02/26/2012

Creative.

[lfbirk]

11:00 AM on 02/26/2012

In Isaiah 53:6, it says "He had no form or charm to attract us, no beauty to win our hearts." That passage was quoted in the gospel to say that there was nothing uniquely beautiful about Jesus's physical appearance.

[fesambay]

08:17 AM on 02/26/2012

As most pics of this man are this one is all wrong. He was a hebrew not a white boy.

[Dross Cool]

08:01 AM on 02/26/2012

VERY FOOLISH PEOPLE POKE FUN AT JESUS CHRIST , IF YOU DONT BELIEVE IN HIM THEN AT LEAST RESPECT THOSE WHO DO

[OgechiUkazu]

08:48 AM on 02/26/2012

It can be argued that very foolish people become angry and demand respect from those who don't believe.

[Feurio]

05:00 AM on 02/27/2012

Blasphemy laws are history, deal with it.

[flxdcatbruce]

12:59 AM on 02/26/2012

At first I wondered why this was posted in the Wierd News section...now I understand...it's the comments.

[crabbyguy75]

12:38 AM on 02/26/2012

What's next? Unicorns?

[Jimm Milenski]

12:18 AM on 02/26/2012

Wow. That's good. Now all he has to do is put it in a vat of urine to make it "contemporary art".

[rocknhula]

10:03 PM on 02/25/2012

It's tacky because it's made of thumb tacks but, I don't think it is without taste. It would be without taste if it showed his genitals or if it included an advertisement.

[unclecrackre]

09:30 PM on 02/25/2012

We will never know what Jesus actually looked like until we meet Him. I for one like the work, but my all time favorite will always be, The Laughing Jesus. Most religions always portrayed Him as solemn, I like to think He laughed, and often.

[yovinny100]

07:27 AM on 02/27/2012

I personally like "Buddy Jesus" from the movie Dogma.

[bizbag]

08:42 PM on 02/25/2012

I thought it was awsome

[Bones Rhodes]

08:42 PM on 02/25/2012

"The portrait is valued at $250,000"

They know this because the "artist" traded two $125,000.00 paint-by-numbers for it.

[neosmartchick]

08:27 PM on 02/25/2012

If the purpose of art is to spark thought and conversation, I'd say he succeeded. And now to all of you who have turned this into some political/ethical/religious agenda, I apologize. So sorry for all the misery inflicted man on man. So sorry the blacks were stolen from their tribal lands by other blacks and sold into slavery. So sorry the sun never set upon the British Empire. So sorry about expansion into American Indian lands and the atrocities that ensued. So sorry Arab extremists attacked our country and struck fear, paranoia and anger into the hearts of Americans. So sorry athiests are offended by other people's faith in God. So sorry women have been held back by the glass ceiling. So sorry some have more than others. So sorry for every other crappy thing that's ever happened that people can't get over. Now, can we get back to the fact that this artist created a picture that actually looks like a person OUT OF THUMBTACKS!?!

[unclecrackre]

09:29 PM on 02/25/2012

Very well spoken. F&F

[see-ellen2001]

08:26 PM on 02/25/2012

Sorry, but a "portrait" it is not, unless Jesus actually came and sat for the artist. Would've been nice if Jesus didn't look like a blue eyed Nordic guy either. Outside of that, I think it is an interesting updated version of Seurat's technique.