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[Kehinde Wiley] often discovers his subjects on the streets of Harlem, Brooklyn, South Central Los Angeles, and urban areas around the world. Once someone agrees to become a model, he chooses a painting from Wiley's collection of art books, then imitates the pose of the portrait's subject.
Wiley's oil paintings place Black men from the hip-hop generation in the postures and gestures of saints, prophets, noblemen and other male subjects featured throughout the history of Western art.See the full content of this document
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Artist Kehinde Wiley to Give Talk at Dia
Artist Kehinde Wiley will be at the Detroit Institu...
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