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I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.
Kehinde Wiley
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Kehinde Wiley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 28
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Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject of the painting.
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If I have the same plan to go into the streets, find random strangers, use art-historical referent from their - from the specific location, to use decorative patterns from this location, that's a rule. That's a set of patterns that you can apply to all societies. But what gives rise or what comes out of each experiment is so radically different.
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Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.
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I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.
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I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.
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I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.
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I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.
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The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].
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I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.
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The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.
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There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.
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All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful in a society.They've always been useful as a way of critiquing power. The carnivalesque has always been useful as a way of the powerful being mocked in a public space.
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So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.
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I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
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A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.
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I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.
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That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
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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.
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