Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley and inter-textuality

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

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 week 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.

Intertexuality refers to the way that any one text (written or visual) is influenced, or made up of a variety of other earlier texts. ALVC2 ressource book (july 2011) p 36

This concept means that every texts is referring back to earlier texts. we all have to start from texts, work, thought to be able to develop and create something.     

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.

Kehinde Wiley (born in 1977) an American artist has imposed himself into the art history’s portrait painting tradition. His work is based on painting black people in a contemporary style, the way he’s painted don’t put black people as normal but as superior , reusing famous renaissance painting, the posture of a king, the elegance of Venus, or a soldier of a cavalries.

His work reflect intertextuality process, in fact most of his work is a “copy” of famous renaissance painting, it "quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of power.”  

3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.

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

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

http://www.cretique.com/archives/4012
http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11