Monday 22 August 2011

Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley and inter-textuality

1. Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system.
Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly.
-Relating to or deriving meaning from the interdependent ways in which texts stand in relation to each other.(concentions)
The whole network of relations.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Intertextuality+
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.
- In Kehinde Wiley's work is very interesting art pices. On his paintings he uses the idea/theme of Renaissance background styles and use people to show
the how rich are they..The artist Kehinde Wiley shows the intertextuality through his same kinds of paintings. However very interesting points on this is,
that Wiley represents the intertextuality by using the person on his painting. For example, people normally sees and thinks that the original Renaissance paintings
has the white people on it. But the artist Wiley painted black man. By this point, he is making viewers make sense of only white people have right to have a power.
It says all people have powers and rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehinde_Wiley
http://www.kehindewiley.com/
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
-PLURALISM is atr refers to the nature and artists as diverse. And the works are relates to the theme of Wiley's works.
Because on his painting he mostly painted with black males which consists the works and low level of classes that time. Nowdays we have equality and everyone has the right to
to something equally. In his paintings we can get a messages of that all the people are same and it shows the changes and developments of the world's culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism
AUT University. (2011). Academic Literacies in Visual Communications 2: Resource Book. New Zealand, Auckland: Lyceum Press
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
-Wiley's work raises the ideas of that all people like 'Black'and 'White' men are same and has equality and has same powers like we have. Also both kinds of people are same human
and must not be judged my skin colours like race and how they act. This artist Kehinde Wiley breaked the idea of stereotype of worldwide viwe..His works with the ideas brought up many
different thiking to this society..
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
-When I was research about this artist 'Kehinde Wiley' I found that he is an interesting artist. Because he is like and pop artist.
When we see his paintings some are very similier to the old paintings and he just followed and changed some styles to his style.
Also the details are very fine with the colour matchs. So that peopel can have more attentions to the works. Also the bright richness
colour choices are really joined with the subjects.




2 comments:

  1. I agree that you said Kehinde Wiley uses a renaissance style background to make it richer, with the artist himself. I think the combination between the background being the renaissance’s style and have portrait of the artist which is part of modernism, is very different what we see in other painting, lots of painting we see around the world are mostly with white people on it, and you have pointed out why he choose to use darker skin people instead of white people, and the reason is because that Kehinde Wiley wanted to show the world that black people are as same as the white people, there are no difference. One quote that said by you is that “all people have power and rights” and I think this quote have basically point out that there should be no racism around the world.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I like and agree with your comment "Wiley's work raises the ideas of that all people like 'Black'and 'White' men are same and has equality and has same powers like we have. Also both kinds of people are same human" as this enforces the effectiveness of the intertextuality in his works. Also it give a postmodern feel to it where everyone is right and wrong and equal, which is, in my opinion, one of the few positive outcomes of postmodernism.

    ReplyDelete