- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of Barack Obama being the president of the United States - quite possibly the most powerful nation in the world - means that the image of power is completely new for an entire generation of not only black American kids but every population group in this nation.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama stands as a signal that this nation will continue to redefine what it means to push beyond the borders of what's possible.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way we think about a presidential portrait is one that is imbued with dignity from the outset.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've come through the art-industrial complex - I've been educated in some of the best institutions and been privy to some of the insider conversations around theory and the evolution of art.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art that was very didactic and based on the '60s, and a social collective.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020