Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley
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.
This weeks ALVC class focuses on the Postmodern theme "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 39 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley.
This weeks ALVC class focuses on the Postmodern theme "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 39 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley.
1. 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.
Intertextuality means that any text, painting, work of art, play or film we watch contain certain elements from any other text, painting, work of art, play or film. That no piece of work is a hundred percent original, because that would be impossible, lots of people find inspiration from the same thing. It can’t be avoided.
2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
Wiley dose highly detailed and very outrageous paintings. He uses the same style as Renaissance portraits that would in that era be commissioned by the rich and wealthy to show there status in society, however Wiley paints young African Americans in a reminiscence of this old Victorian style. Intertextuality can be seen in Wiley’s work through the similarities of the Renaissance style panting and patterns.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Wiley’s work relates to pluralism by showing that power, wealth and freedom is not only for the white but for the colour as well. Simple rights aren’t reserved for just one race, ethnicity, or culture but too all people, no matter how they look, talk or dress.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies, colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
I can see how Wiley’s work would be seen as controversial, in a video interview he said “it’s very loud and in your face... and it won’t go away quietly”. It lets people see what is truly there, it breaks down barriers. They might not like it, but it’s still there and that’s the way it is.
http://www.cretique.com/archives/4012
http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11
http://www.cretique.com/archives/4012
http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11
http://www.kehindewiley.com/
Elbe, I like how you’ve taken Wiley’s message into a wider context in relation to racism and prejudice. His paintings only directly reference African men not having their portrait’s painted in the 17th to 19th century but the principle can be carried into many things. You mentioned that all ethnicities, cultures and races should have the same rights as each other but you could even apply it to gay rights, women’s rights, the handicapped, etc. Wiley was commenting on an entire social system and its bias towards white, fit males.
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