Thursday, April 19, 2012
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." 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.
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Oooh I really like his background patterns and how he brings them to the forground :D
ReplyDeleteThese are so detailed! It's hard to believe some of them are paintings!
ReplyDeletethese are really detailed, its crazy! he incorporates pattern to his paintings often. His artworks reminds me of katie's artwork!
ReplyDeletei loooove the first one. it reminds me of nellies stuff a little bit and katies. and darians for one of them hehehe
ReplyDeletelike all the patterns! can't believe concentrations are almost officially done!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the one with the gangster guy in the hat. He just doesn't look like the type of guy that would be into old fashioned grandmother wallpaper. Our kitchen used to have wallpaper almost exactly like that but in white.
ReplyDeleteYayy I am excited to change it up a little bit from our concentration work.... especially with a field trip yippee!! And... I like this guy's stuff. The second one down is my favorite.
ReplyDeletethese are pretty word. the background shows how gangsta these guys are
ReplyDeletewohoa! we are almost done with pieces... except i still need to do some and fix them so I guess i'm not done so i'm that excited. but those paintings were really cool
ReplyDeletei love the colors and patterns! i like the flowery one because it all pretty and then there is a scary gangster so some nice contrast there. yah art!
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