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Kehinde Wiley, artist interview
Publisher |
Smithsonian
Media Type |
video
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
History
Society & Culture
Visual Arts
Publication Date |
Feb 15, 2008
Episode Duration |
00:10:06
Interview with Kehinde Wiley - his paintings were part of NPG's exhibition "RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture." Interview by NPG curator Brandon Fortune.
For most of Kehinde Wiley's very successful career, he has created large, vibrant, highly patterned paintings of young African American men wearing the latest in hip hop street fashion. The theatrical poses and objects in the portraits are based on well-known images of powerful figures drawn from seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Western art. Pictorially, Wiley gives the authority of those historical sitters to his twenty-first-century subjects. In 2005, VH1 commissioned Wiley to paint portraits of the honorees for that year's Hip Hop Honors program. 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. See the online exhibition at: http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize . Recorded at NPG, February, 2008. Image info: LL Cool J / Kehinde Wiley, 2005 / Oil on canvas / LL Cool J / Copyright Kehinde Wiley

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