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| 3. Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm |
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| 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.
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 refers to far more than the ‘influences’ of writers on each other. The ideology of individualism is a post-Renaissance legacy which reached its peak in Romanticism but which still dominates popular discourse. (Sturrock 1986, 87) (Goldschmidt 1943, 88).Intertextuality is comparing or relating writing or artwork that we already know or familiar, so we could understand them better and easily.
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’s work is mainly about black and brown men found in the different countries. His paintings are mainly took it from the streets of Harlem of young men dressed everyday life style. He was focused on the portrayal of physicality and masculinity from the men. Wiley has expressed his own art style the time period around Islamic architecture, urban hip hop and Renaissance. In his painting he used hip hop style.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. The Cultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cultures. Inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders, ideologies, abilities, ages, religions, economic status and educational levels is valued. Pluralism honours differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities. (Paragraph 1).
Wiley’s work the idea of pluralism is shown as the idea of not only European white men are high class, civilized and wealthy. The main idea is everyone is equal.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
In Wiley’s work he was asked why the white men are more powerful than the black men and showing black men as a gangster and people who always get into trouble. In early renaissance most of the painting in that time was white men and women are rich and high class from this Wiley makes work about the black people.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
In Wiley’s painting look really colourful and it goes well together. He was referenced on the early Renaissance painting how the black men and white men are opposite poor and rich.
- AUT University. (2011). Academic Literacies in Visual Communications 2: Resource Book. New Zealand, Auckland: Lyceum Press
"Wiley’s work the idea of pluralism is shown as the idea of not only European white men are high class, civilized and wealthy." I agree with you, and I also thing some of his work relate to irony, which is same as your idea. Pluralism could also means "a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated", and I think his created the work with different detials and the figures of background, which seems to be middle east style.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your answer to question 4, because generally the world has a pre-impression of black and brown men and stereo-type them as trouble makers, when infact every country and every culture has people who are bad. Its just a small minority that make up a culture. It is true that in the early Renaissance period, white men were seen as rich and black men were seen as poor. Nowadays, I feel the world is slowly changing, because there are some very rich musical artists who are black men. I like the colourful backgrounds of Wileys work as well and think its very interesting.
ReplyDeleteYou could have expanded more on question four about the questions and ideas Wiley raises in his works. Yes, he challenges the viewers by exhibiting paintings which depict American-African men in Renaissance style rather than Caucasians, but he also seems to be asking the audience to remove the stereotypical visual and traits of African-Americans and instead try imagine what the world may be like now, had racial discrimination never existed.
ReplyDeleteIt's unfair how black guys are labeled as dangerous, gangsta etc just because of their mainstream images which we merely see through the media, I demand justice! D:<