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Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
Born: 1977
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Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Keith Haring Roy Lichtenstein Yoko Ono
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. Kehinde Wiley
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Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual. Kehinde Wiley
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Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time. Kehinde Wiley
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I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth. Kehinde Wiley
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I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture. Kehinde Wiley
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Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope. Kehinde Wiley
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I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized. Kehinde Wiley
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Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends. Kehinde Wiley
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I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily. Kehinde Wiley
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We all look at the same object in different ways. Kehinde Wiley
Ways Object Look Same Different Different Ways
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible. Kehinde Wiley
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My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north. Kehinde Wiley
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I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me. Kehinde Wiley
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Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. Kehinde Wiley
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During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids. Kehinde Wiley
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My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken. Kehinde Wiley
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It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting. Kehinde Wiley
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Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form. Kehinde Wiley
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When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy. Kehinde Wiley
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I think it would be really interesting to paint Obama. Kehinde Wiley
Think Obama Would Would-Be Interesting Really Paint
My interest is in completing an image that is spectacular beyond belief. My fidelity is to the image and the art and not to the bragging rights of making every stroke on every flower. I'm realistic. Kehinde Wiley
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Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography. Kehinde Wiley
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I've fished everywhere I've traveled. Kehinde Wiley
Everywhere Traveled
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside. Kehinde Wiley
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Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society does with it after it's produced is something else. And the African-American community has always been expert at taking things and repurposing them toward their own ends. Kehinde Wiley
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My love affair with painting is bittersweet. Kehinde Wiley
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