Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.
Kehinde WileyThis is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.
Kehinde WileyWhat it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.
Kehinde WileyWe 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.
Kehinde WileyPortraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.
Kehinde WileyWhat we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.
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