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| 3. Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm |
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| 4. Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm |
Kahinde Wiley is a Gay American based painter born in Los Angeles, who has an international reputation. Wiley lives and practices between Beijing and Brooklyn.
This weeks ALVC class focuses on the Postmodern theme "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 39 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley.
1. Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system. Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly.
2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
(1)
"The concept of intertextuality reminds us that each text exsists in relation to others." (ALVC, pg39) meaning that texts have been reviewed and opinionated before the people have a chance to generate their own views on the subject. Also meaning that nothing is really original or new, just recycled in creative ways.
(2)
His work consists of "a mash-up of museum treasure and the urban life outside of its gates." (interview Magazine) with his clever combination of the classic world and the modern hip-hop culture. His works consist of subjects that we already have an opinion of that gets changed in the complete opposite way. For example we ususally see black hip-hop associated young men as dangerous, urban, dirty or bad mannered. But Wiley places them into a classic portrait in a way that gives of the impression of class, manners and well educated heirachy.
(3)
Pluaralism is basiclly where people of all classes and diversities come together and try to co-exsist. The influence of Pluralism can be seen in Wileys work as he combines both the heirachy of "white peoples art" with "black peoples culture" showing a cleverly put together artwork with the two sides working together.
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As I said before he combines the different cultures together to show people that they can co-exsist togehter in a constructive manner and it gets people to question about diversity.
References:
- AUT (2011), Achademic Literacies in Visual Communication 2. Auckland. Printsprint.
- Interview Magazine, (n.d). Retrieved at 28 August, 2011, from: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/kehinde-wiley/
i found it interesting the way roelius describes wiley's work 'where he combines the hierachy of "white peoples art" and "black peoples culture". i never would have put it like that and i agree with what he says. i also agree with what you said about how we can co-exist together in a constructive manner and how wiley expresses that idea through his paintings.
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