Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. The concept of intertextuality is an important issue in postmodern theory. Many postmodern visual communicatiors discuss the notion of intertextuality itself or are expliclity intertextual in nature.
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.
For most of Kehinde Wiley’s very successful career, he has created large, vibrant, highly patterned paintings of young African American men wearing the latest in hip hop street fashion. His painting realised classical combine hip hop modern style which gives viewers strong visual effect and appreciate his talent. Intertextuality is an important issue in postmodern theory, back to Wiley's work we make sense that he created melds a fluid concept of modern culture, ranging from French Rococo to today’s urban landscape.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Pluralism is used, often in different ways, across a wide range of topics to denote a diversity of views. After read page 46 the example of New Zealand Maori and British I kown what is pluralism and relate to Wiley's work that the theatrical poses and objects in the portraits are based on well-known images of powerful figures drawn from seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Western art. Pictorially, Wiley gives the authority of those historical sitters to his twenty-first-century subjects. He conbain mixed different medias and created new style which other artist never think about before.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Kehinde Wiley is an artist known for his big, flashy paintings of young African-American men recast as the kings, dandies, prophets and saints of European portraiture. His portraits initially depicted African-American men against rich textile or wallpaper backgrounds whose patterns he has likened to abstractions of sperm. Kehinde Wiley’s works reference specific paintings by Titian and Tiepolo, but he incorporates a range of art historical and vernacular styles in his paintings, from the French Rococo to the contemporary urban street. Wiley collapses history and style into a uniquely contemporary vision.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
Los Angeles native and New York-based visual artist Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history's portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists--including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, and others--Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world.
By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.
Wiley's larger than life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.
Initially, Wiley's portraits were based on photographs taken of young men found on the streets of Harlem. As his practice grew, his eye led him toward an international view, including models found in urban landscapes throughout the world--such as Senegal, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, among others--accumulating to a vast body of work called, "The World Stage."
http://www.skny.com/artists/kehinde-wiley/http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/w/kehinde_wiley/index.html
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html
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