Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
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The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures. Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives. The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with hip-hop culture, and are set against contrasting ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and a range of cultures. Through the process of "street casting," Wiley invites individuals, often strangers he encounters on the street, to sit for portraits. In this collaborative process, the model chooses a reproduction of a painting from a book and reenacts the pose of the painting’s figure. By inviting the subjects to select a work of art, Wiley gives them a measure of control over the way they're portrayed. The exhibition includes a selection of Wiley's World Stage paintings, begun in 2006, in which he takes his street casting process to other countries, widening the scope of his collaboration. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic February 20–May 24, 2015 http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/kehinde_wiley_new_republic/
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(((This is art)))
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If I have ever seen cultural apropriation, this must be the pinnacle of it.
Paint your own god damn pictures, create your own god damn art and use your own god damn brain to come up with it all! -
HOL UP
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Stealing art now too? The black race is an interesting specimen.
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WE
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Your work is so beautiful, words cannot adequately describe it. As an artist, I've always felt that black and brown people have been greatly excluded from works of art that are considered great or fine art. I love how you're showing that we too can be included under the umbrella of fine art.
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I heard he's a douche from a very close source.
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I was absolutely thrilled to see this in the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond, Virginia last week!
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Happy to have this exhibit in Richmond Virginia!
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A tour da force!
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Find out more about the famous New York-based portrait painter - Kehinde Wiley :
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Powerful intriguing work!
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Kehinde, you are a master of our time. Thank you for sharing it with us.
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I do the same thing, but with white people
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enjoyed his work until i saw the painting of a black woman holding the decapitated head of a white woman. very distasteful and racist to paint imagery like that in this era. and no i'm not white.
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AMAZING!!!
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There´s a great documentary about this dude !!
He was in Sao Paulo for a while, it had influenced his work as well =)
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WOW, I'm SPEECHLESS.
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Veery intrigued by this artist...
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Kehinde Wiley's deserved better than the negative portrayal and disrespectful false comments from Jessica Dawson of the Village Voice in her article which distorts who he is and what he is about: "What to Make of Kehinde Wiley's Pervy Brooklyn Museum Retrospective?"
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