Kehinde Wiley And Inter-texuality

Kehinde Wiley

1. Untitled (2009)

 

2. Untitled(2009)

3. Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm

4. Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm

Kehinde Wiley is a Gay American based painter born in Los Angeles, who has an international reputation. Wiley lives and practices between Beijing and Brooklyn.
 

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.

Intertextuality is based on the way one text in written or visual work is understood and viewed. It is built upon many varieties and is always influenced by something else. Intertextuality might be that whatever we have knowledge of and our minds will always refer back to what we understand or see it as from what we have experienced which helps us understand written or visual work. Chandler (2003).

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.

In Wiley's work we may see that he has mixed a lot of familiar famous art works of history in his work.  There are a lot of similarities in all his works and he uses a lot of colour in them. A way we may analyse his work could be for us to think of what the art work reminds us of and how he has changed it, obviously he has been influenced by history and glorification in many powerful postures in his work which are similar to historian paintings of kings and queens. For his work to make sense we can also see that he is not using the original colour of the ethnicities or clothing, he views it from his perspective  culture including others not only of one nation. I have identified that intertexuality can be seen in Wiley's work from understanding your knowledge of history and how it has been influenced in his art works and that intertexuality comes in from this by the viewers background understanding. 

3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 51 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.

Wiley's work relates to pluralism from what he has based his theme upon. He focus's alot on ethnicity, colours and laso a wide variety in art of men, masculinity. Through this he shows the emphasis of genders and ideologies, religion and economic status. He shows the differences between groups while viewing their commonalities.

4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western world-view.

His works raise alot of questions leaning towards the use of American history that is influenced in his works and also the way he uses his meaning of the work. The social/cultural hierarchies is the most affective expression that is brought through his work from the differences of colour and in a way he plays with the real meaning that had war with racism. His work deals with alot of world issues that  America face in the passed and what every country went through with colonisation and with the power that people had that dealt with politics against colours and the dealing with stereotypes. His work raises alot of history and differences that the world had faced in the past that we can now see how others had viewed it.  

5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.

Kehinde Wiley's work is more related to society issues and world reflection to how his culture was forgotten and is showing the pride that he has for his people. Because of american's history of racism there were so many historical paintings and portraits of the European culture that other cultures of society were forgotten. Through his work he shows the American history in another perspective showing the other side of things. And the importance of not just one colour. That there is pride in others not just focusing on only one colour that they must learn about. Gives the audience the time to re think their history knowledge and plays with the idea of bring american history in a new way.

Chandler, D (2003) Intertextuality. Retrieved 9 Oct, 2003 from
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem09html
ALVC Handbook

http://www.cretique.com/archives/4012

http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11 

http://www.kehindewiley.com/Artist_Statement.html

http://www.thinkcontra.com/kehinde-wiley-on-current/