| |
| 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 |
Kahinde Wiley is a Gay American based painter born in Los Angeles, who has an international reputation. Wiley lives and practices between Beijing and Brooklyn.
- Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system. Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly.
No-one today- even for the first time- can read a famous novel or poem, look at a famous painting, drawing or sculpture, listen to a famous piece of music or watch a famous play or film without being alluded to, parodied and so on. Such contexts constitute a primary frame which the reader cannot avoid drawing upon in interpreting the text.
Chandler, D (2003) Intertextuality. Retrieved 9 Oct, 2003 from http://www.aber.ac.uk/transcript/volume2/issue2_2/sculpt/sculpt.htm
This is saying that without even realizing everything in the modern world has a reference, nothing is original people take what they want, change it reuse things and make it their own. It is something we do automatically to help us understand works by comparing it to references in our head that help us make sense of the work.
ALVC semester 2 book
- Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
In Wiley’s work he has many references to renaissance artists such as Tiziano Vecellio and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Wiley’s paintings reference history in a contemporary manner, also I have noticed that he only paints black men and with the reference of high class portraits from the renaissance, black men have taken their position. In ancient times this would of never ever been done or thought of because of the position of black coloured people in society. His paintings really show how time has changed and how free we are in todays age. Also the frames around his paintings show the importance of the people in the paintings, like the importance of the people painted in the renaissance such as people with money and kings and queens. Turning his aesthetic on end, he used his trademark references to older portraits to add legitimacy to paintings of this generation’s already powerful musical talents. In Wiley’s hands, Ice T channels Napoleon, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five take on a seventeenth-century Dutch civic guard company. (http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html) ‘He's a brilliant renaissance technician with hip-hop subject matter’ (http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/kehinde-wiley/)- I really like how this has been described by interview magazine because it shows how intertextual he is, in the way that he takes things and adds his own touch to it and makes it his own. Little people get credit for the references that are used. He also references French Rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Each individual artist and student belongs to several overlapping cultures and subcultural groups. Art can communicate multiple identities within one culture as well as make cross-culture comparisons. Artistic processes and products may also show cultural mixing. (Caldwell,1999)
Wiley is putting black American men into paintings and positions of people for an example from the renaissance portraiture where men were painted showing wealth and power. Wiley is contrasting these cultures by adding largely sized black American men (for power effect) and putting them in a royal like pose. He displays in a great fashion in his work of how the world is changing and are free to do a lot that should of been allowed a long time ago. The more freedom the gain the happier society is. He makes figurative paintings that “quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of ‘power.’” His “slightly heroic” figures, slightly larger than life size, are depicted in poses of power and spiritual awakening. He deliberately mixes images of power and spirituality, using them as a filter in the portrayal of masculinity (http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11)
ALVC semester2 book
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonization, globalization, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
In his work he is breaching stereotypes of what black people are portrayed as, normally if you think of a black person I associate them with gold chains, baggy jeans, rap and hip-hop this is due to movies. He is making his work so that people realize that there need no be any hierarchies of society and skin colour. He has put famous rappers in a position of history references bold, royal white men in a throne or on horse back.
‘Wiley may have redefined portrait painting for a new century’ (M.I.A,2011). Wiley’s work . It’s obviously a comment on youth culture and it’s a comment on consumption patterns, but it’s also a comment on who gets to be in those sort of important moments in picture making. (Q&Q With Kehinde Wiley,2008) this shows that Wiley was challenging societies norm and making a decision about who can be in high society paintings, and is breaking down the barriers that are still vaguely there on white society being superior. Also his work could create discussion on the choice of his references as he uses them in a joke-like manner and people might not appreciate the mockery that is almost in the paintings where powerful white figures used to stand. However, I find them fascinating and extremely clever in the way he breaks the norms.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
I think that Wiley is a highly intellectual person and has some great knowledge and ideas on the world today, I found an interview very interesting with him in the way he has so much to say and knows so much.. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/interview_paintings.html
Wiley in the interview talks about how you cannot define hip-hop and how black american presence in the world have responded in places everywhere from china to india etc.. Hip-hop is global is how he describes it having characters from all over the world. He is embracing the fullness of the culture what used to be a political act an act of reformation and conformation of who we are in the world in the south bronx, in the 70s, it has gone so well that you see it in the streets of Tokyo...
I love how he displays ideas and how talented he is in being a photorealist. His paintings have a dreamy effect on them and seem quite humorous.
Your comments on the way the artist references other people is very interesting as I didn't find this piece of information out. It is very true how often now almost every time we see something in a artists way we are eluded to or reminded of another object (or anything else really).
ReplyDeletei too enjoyed reading your comment, 'He deliberately mixes images of power and spirituality, using them as a filter in the portrayal of masculinity ' as i think this clarifies and sums up his works as an artist.
Your paragraph about Kehinde Wiley's work and identify intertextuality where is it present was very interesting to read your anwsering had a lot of depth to it and information I hadn't found myself. I also enjoyed the interveiw magazine link that you added in. I had not thought of the aspect that his paintings are showing the freedom of black people today compared to the past.
ReplyDelete