Last weeks ALVC class focused on the Post Modern them "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 44 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley. How do we make sense of his Kehinde's work? Identify intertextuality in Kehinde's work?
Kehinde Wileys portrait paintings of the black american urban stereo type have been painted in a particular way that it is clear that intertextuality. It is clear that these specific paintings are trying to raise questions of racism and other aspects we have in society today such as how we view and look at things. He has done this in a very clever way in the way that he references his paintings in a very old traditional way where as painters in those days were payed a commission to paint those in power riding there horse etc. The way that he has played the urban black americans in these photos questions and toys with the viewer as to the way it has transformed the pictures. by having the black americans inside the paintings it questions the social power hierarchies and how we have this automatic way of stereotyping people which is embedded within our societies.
Kehinde's work relates to this weeks Post Modern theme "PLURALISM" re-read page 50 and discuss how the work relates to this theme?
The at which Wiley has placed the urban black american into these pictures is to question the ways at which we perceive things and have done in the past. In the history books and museums we have only recognition of those who were in the white male social class whereas those who may have been grouped as others have been ignored and not taken seriously throughout history. There have been artists throughout history that have been black african, women that have gone unrecognized as they were not part of the hierarchy system. His work shows this inclusion throughout changing the old paintings which normally had the white rich white male in them with the urban black american to give this idea of pluralism where as all ethnicities, genders, ideologies, ages, abilities and economic status are valued and honored with the differences.
His way of replacement as his way of analyzing things is a very affective way in order to get accross his views. The simpleness i think adds to how powerful his work is and the message it is sending.
I agree with you on the fact that there have been woman and african american artists through history who have never been aknowledged and very much desrve too. And its ggod that you can see the effort Wiley is taking and how he is going about the issue the correct way.
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