Week 5 - Kehinde Wiley
Kahinde Wiley is a Gay American based painter born in Los Angeles, who has an international reputation living between Pe King and Brooklyn.
Last weeks ALVC class focused on the Post Modern them "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 44 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley. How do we make sense of his Kehinde's work? Identify intertextuality in Kehinde's work?
Kehinde's work relates to this weeks Post Modern theme "PLURALISM" re-read page 50 and discuss how the work relates to this theme?
Kehinde's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Information on specific paintings was difficult to obtain however Matt has the info for the last 2 paintings.
3. Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm
4. Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm
How do we make sense of his Kehinde's work? Identify intertextuality in Kehinde's work?
ReplyDeleteKehinde Wiley is a New York based painter from Los Angeles who has situated himself firmly within art history's tradition of portrait painting. Wiley, as the contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others, appropriates the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, opulent, majestic, and sublime in his representations of young, urban, black men.
His paintings are juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery. By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, history, wealth, power, and prestige. His work reminded me of many paintings from renaissance period, the frist picture is from 'Odalisque with a slave, 1842, Ingres, oil on canvas' and the second picture as well, it reminded me of 'Napoleon on his Imperial Throne Ingres 1806 oil on canvas'.
Wiley’s paintings often blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary. Rendered in a realistic mode –– while making references to specific old master paintings –– Wiley creates a fusion of period styles, ranging from French rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip–hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interiors color swatch.
Kehinde's work relates to this weeks Post Modern theme "PLURALISM" re-read page 50 and discuss how the work relates to this theme?
His work is all combination with some old style of renaissance period and contemporary style. he mixed together to juxtapose. I really like the third picture because he juxtaposed quite well because back then the Europe (White), male and middle class visual culture was privileged as high civilized and was therefore prioritized in the art gallery or in the art history book. No any black male in the art history book, that's why i think he wanted to do something about it in his life and i think his work is giving me an idea of why the black skin don't have any privilege back then. However we can still see now in our society, that black skin is kind a disadvantage in someway than white skin. As the result there was The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm) retrieve 2 September 2010
Hi!. the painting styles have been compared and measured up to numerous renowned portrait artists as he creates a mixture of period styles to create work. I find Kahinde Wiley's work is very interesting and out of the ordinary.
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