St. Croix Educational Complex High School students created two large-scale paintings inspired by Kehinde Wiley, a contemporary African American artist. Wiley explores Power, race, and identity issues by exploring portraiture. Wiley’s portraits depict everyday people he meets on the streets. His artwork references artwork created by older European masters, thereby encouraging the viewer to contemplate the role of identity and Power in portraiture. By utilizing Wiley’s approach to art-making…

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter, best known for his realistic images of African-Americans, many posed like historic images of kings or other people of privilege and power. Sometimes his portraits feature famous people such as President Obama, but other times he uses models o

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In this lesson, students will learn about Contemporary painter Kehinde Wiley best know for his Presidential Portrait of Barack Obama and his unique style of

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You can love or hate the artist’s works, which often insert black individuals into classic Western portraiture, but it is hard to ignore them.

Acrylic on canvas 241.3 x 188.6cm (96 x 74 1/2in)