Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley
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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.
the concept of intertextuality reminds us that each text exists in relation to others. in fact texts owe more to other texts than to their own makers. Michel foucault declared that: the frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other sentences: it is a node within a network.
ref: ALVC 2011 resource book
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.
The subjects and stylistic references for his paintings are juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery. By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, history, wealth, power, and prestige to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric in which he is embedded, Wiley presents his young men as both heroic and pathetic, aestheticized and reified, autonomous and manipulated. Ultimately, Wiley's practice disturbs and interrupts tropes of portrait painting to locate, in his words, "class struggle at the level of sign".
http://www.artnet.com/awc/kehinde-wiley.html
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Wiley's work relates to theme pluralism as pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. thecultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cultures. inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders, ideologies, abilities, ages, religions,economic status and educational levels is valued. pluralism honours differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities.
ALVC 2011 resource book.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
For all of his works all around the colour of our skin, what kind of information his work and painting try to tell us. as we through white man is more powerfull being on earth but is this true? that is not fair . his work notice us what is real "equal" in this world, no matter what is your skins colour, we live in one world, this is paceful world, we are family, we love eachother.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
when i start to do my blog, i have no idea about wiley's work and did not get any message from his work, but now i found his pretty cool, i love his work also the way to show us about his work, very significance to our life, relationship, culture, nationality.
i think his work does juxtapose itself also and plays with the idea of steriotypes as we see a black man who is dressed in a way which can be described as gangsta presented in such a historic european way to show the equality in what was a white man dominated history. Being presented in the heroic fashion they are in also shows this equality factor as it places a high regard for these black males showing that we all are equal. Today we have a black president that just goes to show how society has changed.
ReplyDeleteHi, Neviou, I get one more point about question one: According to Chandler “Intertextuality refers to the way that any one text (written or visual) is influenced…as a result, the notion of intertextuality suggests that whenever we try to make sense of a text we are constantly referring back to our understanding of its influences to help us understand it.”
ReplyDeleteAnd after when I read through your blog, I am almost agree your ideas. For fourth question, I get some other ideas about that question. Wiley’s painting is also stand out the problems in western country, and entrusted to the black man a strong meaning, that is who get important social status in today’s society.