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He's a great - he's a great professor. He retired recently, but.But Peter Halley as well.

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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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Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.
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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 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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I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.
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You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.
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We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.
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I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.
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I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.
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I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.
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I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.
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I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.
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I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds you as possible. As you see, my work has become increasingly global. My presence in the world has become increasingly global.
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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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Women are expected to identify gender as a starting point. Ethnicities are expected to identify that as a location. Is it ever possible for the artist to imagine a state of absolute freedom? That was my call to arms.
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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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I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
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There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.
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Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European paintings of the past - the background in my work does not play a passive role.
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You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
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