Kehinde Wiley

Description:

"This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil. Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela slums, reflect historically significant public sculptures found within the city. Oversize tropical flowers in full bloom, appropriated from Brazilian textiles, inundate the work with saturated, brightly hued colors suggestive of Brazilian exoticism. Likening African-descended, young Brazilian males to canonical figures from Western art history as well as Brazilian public monuments, Wiley renders masculinity both august and noble. Text in English and Portuguese."--Jacket.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Exhibitions,  Blacks,  American Portrait painting,  Portraits,  Blacks in art,  Malerei,  African American painting,  Manners and customs,  Clothing,  Painting, exhibitions,  Portrait painting,  Painting, american,  African american artists,  Portrait painters,  Men,  Pictorial works,  African Americans,  American Painting,  Bildnismalerei,  Schwarze,  Black people in art

People: Kehinde Wiley (1977-)

Places: Brazil,  Brasilien

Times: 21st century