Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. Intertextuality refers to the way that any one text (written or visual ) is influenced, or made up of a variety of other earlier texts.(Chandler, D. (2003))
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.
He is a renaissance technician with hip-hop subject. Kehinde Wiley was born in Los Angeles in 1977. His father was from Nigeria, and his mother was African-American. He did not grow up with his father, so, at the age of 20, he traveled to Nigeria to explore his roots and meet his father. His latest work focuses on young black men in a sadly familiar posture: Down. Part of Wiley's process was lifting his subjects straight from the street and rendering them-complete with sneakers, track pants, tank tops, and team caps-in the visual language of classic European portraiture, all of these issues relate to the intertextuality, we can see really clearly intertextuality in his art work.
‘down’ by kehinde wiley
deitch projects, new yorknovember 1 - december 20, 2008
3.Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Pluralism in art refer to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. The culture context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's culture. Include of many different values. I can see in Wiley's work relate to the pluralism. Most of his work have the colourful patten as the background background, I can say the style of the most painting is colsed to renaissance artist, which is fine and details. However, he inter new element of the issue in the picture to create his own art, from the clothings and the another object in the painting, Wiley makes the art more interesting and much different from the renaissance painting.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Wylie conflates historical formulas-Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, with hip-hop fashion elements and finds his own complex style. Most of his works emphasizes the everyday theatricality of Black youth culture, with its fetishization of personal style. That how he work on the sensitivity issue. Turn the serious subject into the funny or interesting image and combine with the old classical painting.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
you have read during your research.
In my opinion, Wiley try to used the old classical painting to make people have sympathetic responses, and created his own personalty. One of the important thing in his painting is the posing of the man in the picture, that is the part to show the emotion of whole painting.
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After reading your blog it is quite helpful to help me to more understand how the Wylie’s work going. I am quite like you said: “The culture context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's culture.” I think that is what the important idea which Wiely wants to talk about. He make traditional style and kind of Hip-Pop style at the same time on his painting, that looking interesting. And this way could let the viewer realised the main idea and also looks not quite heaviness.
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