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September 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm / No comments / View M.J.'s Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
© Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005
The first time I saw this Kehinde Wiley painting, fashioned after Jacques-Louis David’s painting Bonaparte Crossing the Alps at Grand-Saint-Bernard, I was instantaneously struck with a feeling a familiarity…”Where have I seen this before?” Wiley’s made a name for himself, over the past few years, with his remixes of 17th through 19th century portraiture with contemporary urban black men aesthetic.
Black Light, 2009. Works by Kehinde Wiley
Black Light, his first monologue, released through PowerHouse Books this June, Wiley photographs his subjects in the same vain as his paintings. Black and brown men, traditionally posed, dressed fresh and to the nines, each exuding such an air of regality that it’s impossible that they could be anything less than a member of Napoleon’s royal court….
August 10, 2009 at 1:07 pm / No comments / View Brew's Profile / Follow this Maroon on Twitter!
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