My Favorite Black Artist...
02-15-2021
By Maryclare Beche
I have recently found myself getting drawn to the work of Kehinde Wiley. Wiley’s style has always reminded me of the beauty of transformation: creating something beautiful out of that which culture has termed as broken. His huge portraits, to me, creates an image of abundant life flowing through black and brown bodies all over the world.
“Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendant of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.”
See more at kehindewiley.com
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