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Kehinde Wiley
Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
Born: 1977
About Art Black People World You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Keith Haring Roy Lichtenstein Yoko Ono
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial. Kehinde Wiley
Time Practice Every Think Immemorial Constant Something Concern Material Subject Artist Your
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it. Kehinde Wiley
Work Art People Try Imagination Rarely About Something Talk Historical Very Gets Little Play
My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others. Kehinde Wiley
Me You World Mother Language Translation Others Way System Introduced Understand Child Which
I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone. Kehinde Wiley
Myself People Skin Mostly Taught Paint Roughly Tone
I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department. Kehinde Wiley
Police Black Men Seen Young Scared Angeles Police Department Know Boy How Los Los Angeles Department Oftentimes Afraid Little Them
I am interested in evolution within my thinking. I am not interested in the evolution of my paint. Kehinde Wiley
Thinking Evolution Within Am Not Interested Interested Paint
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value. Kehinde Wiley
Work Future Value Complex Recognize Collectors Some About Something Economic Sort Said Your Who
The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at. Kehinde Wiley
Art People World Looking Become Lose Sense Thinking Rules About Track Insular Talking Art World Any Interest Even
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that. Kehinde Wiley
Better First Overwhelming President States Ability Be The First Absolutely Than Get Any African-American Paint Painter United United States
There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting. Kehinde Wiley
You Painting Magic About Something Coloured Pushing Taking Hairy Like Looks Around Sticks Making Paste Really Cool
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset. Kehinde Wiley
Dignity Think Presidential Way About Outset Portrait
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting. Kehinde Wiley
You Painting Tame Hire
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective. Kehinde Wiley
Art Learning School Political Collective Type About Up Art School Very Didactic Going African-American Social Much Growing Growing Up Based
I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story. Kehinde Wiley
Total Environment Weird Economically Impoverished Oprah Up Grew Story Elite
The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it. Kehinde Wiley
Work Language Power Control Those About Vocabulary More Construct Pointing Taking Empire New Domination Oftentimes Social Sentences Much Games Using Ills Actually Necessarily Playing Position
The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time. Kehinde Wiley
Time Language Heroic Evolved Something Over
When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry. Kehinde Wiley
Me You Library Amazing Back See Some Excited Studying Days Pictures Most How Go Landed Paint Gardens Things
My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria. Kehinde Wiley
Family Mother Father First Met Before Broke Born Angeles He Returned Los Los Angeles Go His Texas Up Where African-American Flew Nigeria Nigerian University
Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it. Kehinde Wiley
Project Once About Head Obsessive Get Getting Really Start
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be. Kehinde Wiley
Racism World Matter Gender Sense Our Exist Happens Victims Race
I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there. Kehinde Wiley
You Culture People Hell Background Rarely Access Got Doing Came Were Wondered Where Granted Museum
By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me. Kehinde Wiley
Work Great Me People World See Throughout Like Look Most Happen Who Large Museums
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way. Kehinde Wiley
Service Art People Grace Seen State Way Those See Able Rarely About Get Anything Us Who Letting
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation. Kehinde Wiley
Fashion Nation Indicator Also Cultural Social Fleeting Appetites Fragile
As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in terms of pop culture and global and social outlook. Kehinde Wiley
Culture Increasingly See Outlook Global Terms Became Becoming America Artist Patterns Social Pop Working Pop Culture Aware Street
In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination. Kehinde Wiley
You Travel Destination Say Approximate Location Never Does Arrive End Person Trying In The End Who Fashions Images
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