Kehinde Wiley
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Biography: Kehinde Wiley is a New York City-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: February 28, 1977
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Gender: Male
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Paint & Pitchfork
Overview: This profile of celebrated artists Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley provides insight into why they make art and their unique perspectives on painting portraits.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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Picturing the Obamas
Overview: Viewers learn from curators, journalists and art critics about the ways in which the Obamas’ portraits commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery disrupt traditional presidential portraiture and spur museums to reach new audiences. The paintings of the ex-commander in chief and first lady, by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, were revealed to much fanfare at the National Portrait Gallery in 2018. The portraits — which drew record attendance to the Washington art museum — have since traveled the country as part of a nationwide exhibition.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-10
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Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace
Overview: Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the practice of portraiture on its head and in the process has taken the art world by storm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Gauguin: A Dangerous Life
Overview: Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his wife to bring up five children and used his colonial privilege to travel to Polynesia, where in his 40s he took ‘wives’ between 13 and 15 years old, creating images of them and their world that promoted a fantasy paradise of an unspoilt Eden in the Pacific. Later, he challenged the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church in defence of the indigenous people, dying in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, sick, impoverished and alone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-01
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Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Overview: An introduction to the work of some of the foremost Black visual artists working today, inspired by the late David Driskell's landmark 1976 exhibition, "Two Centuries of Black American Art."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-09
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