Homestretch

We are almost there. The last critique of the year will be on Friday the 27th! Crazy. Once we get our portfolios together and upload them to AP we are heading off into a new direction.

This is the artist that we will be looking at for the Scholastic Art Magazine project. His name is Kehinde Wiley. We will be creating a collage, I'm still toying with the idea of creating the collage in Adobe Photoshop. We will definitely be going on some sort of field trip, most likely to downtown Portland to get some source material.

http://www.kehindewiley.com/Kalkidan_Mashasha.html

The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work with the following: "Kehinde Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."

Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, 2005

Wiley’s paintings often blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation. Rendered in a realistic mode–while making references to specific Old Master paintings–Wiley creates a fusion of period styles, ranging from French Rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interiors color swatch.