I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.
Kehinde WileyI happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.
Kehinde WileyI think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.
Kehinde WileyStatus and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.
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