mexxmoney:
I hope we won't come here to start celebrating someone who is currently been universally condemned for his racist artworks

designVATExcel:
Hmmm. Is he truly Nigerian, hasn't lived here, just visited.

Even in my country if I stay 5 years in a state I'm still a settler and cannot own some properties or contest for political post.

Truth234:


How is he racist? You need to learn about his work, what the Caucasians are calling racism is a work that has been done over and over again by the same white, using white Judith picture (the Jewish Widow). All did was to use black painting for Judith (black Judith), like his other works.

kolawoleibukun:
the thing about Nigerians is complex. We only appreciate people already celebrated outside. There are thousands of artists in Nigeria seeking assistance and recognition. We drive past these artists everyday and some of us are still owing them from the cheap work that they did for us. As soon as one gains international recognition, we quickly remembers that he is an artist. Why can't we celebrate our local skills. That man did not achieve knowledge or excellence here. Why can't we help ourselves. People are painting Buhari and Adeboye at every corner but why are they not recognized?

mexxmoney:

Everyone knows the story of Judith in the bible and those white you were claiming did the same picture were just depicting a scene in a biblical story of judith beheading General holefoenes just like depicting David beheading Goliath. What Mr Wiley did on the other hand had no relationship whatsoever to the bible story, he simply painted a portrait of a black woman beheading a white woman. Can u pls point me to anywhere in the biblical judith story that a woman beheaded another woman or even in the entire Bible where that happened? It was a racist artwork simple. If he had even painted a black Judith killing a white Gen. hoelefoenes, I would have even accepted it as a protest against the constant depiction of biblical heroes as white but to substitute Gen. Holefoenes with the head of a white woman totally disconnected his painting from the bible story, it turned the picture to what it is now been seen as i.e a racist painting of a black woman beheading a white woman with all the attendant wrong messages people could get from such a painting

transformed:
Na dis matter you put for head like dis? I want to believe you always defend black people against your caucassian lords like this. Based on where he grew up, and what he had experienced, expressing is disgust against an oppressive and racist group through his art I dont think makes him a racist. I think he is a survival, a freedom fighter using his talents to liberate his oppressed kin...A Moses.

mexxmoney:

Two wrongs have never and will never make a right. If a white artist had done a painting glorifying a white woman who beheads a black woman and holds her head dripping blood up as a trophy, the whole world would be going crazy right now and denouncing him as racist. He is been condemned now for those paintings of his and I can't just because he is black like me start supporting him or make excuses for him. We must learn to praise good deeds and condemn the bad irrespective of who is doing it and who is at the receiving end of it

mexxmoney:

Everyone knows the story of Judith in the bible and those white you were claiming did the same picture were just depicting a scene in a biblical story of judith beheading General holefoenes just like depicting David beheading Goliath. What Mr Wiley did on the other hand had no relationship whatsoever to the bible story, he simply painted a portrait of a black woman beheading a white woman. Can u pls point me to anywhere in the biblical judith story that a woman beheaded another woman or even in the entire Bible where that happened? It was a racist artwork simple. If he had even painted a black Judith killing a white Gen. hoelefoenes, I would have even accepted it as a protest against the constant depiction of biblical heroes as white but to substitute Gen. Holefoenes with the head of a white woman totally disconnected his painting from the bible story, it turned the picture to what it is now been seen as i.e a racist painting of a black woman beheading a white woman with all the attendant wrong messages people could get from such a painting

FarahAideed:


But the fact that Barrack Obama would commission such an artist to do his portrait speaks volumes about the disturbing mind lurking behind the rib cage of Mr Obama like I have always maintained

transformed:
I dont think defending people that voted a president that grab pussy and call black countries shit hole deserve the kind of energy you are expending on this matter... There is a difference between statement like "the guy is a good artist, but I dont like some of his art that depict racism" and another one like " the guy should be skinned and trashed into gabbage because I saw one of his art where he was encouraging black women to cut white women head" similar statement, from different undertone

mexxmoney:

Two wrongs have never and will never make a right. If a white artist had done a painting glorifying a white woman who beheads a black woman and holds her head dripping blood up as a trophy, the whole world would be going crazy right now and denouncing him as racist. He is been condemned now for those paintings of his and I can't just because he is black like me start supporting him or make excuses for him. We must learn to praise good deeds and condemn the bad irrespective of who is doing it and who is at the receiving end of it

kennygee:
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is a New York City-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work with the following: "Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."


Wiley was born in Los Angeles, California. His father is Yoruba from Nigeria, and his mother is African-American. As a child, his mother supported his interest in art and enrolled him in after-school art classes. At the age of 12, he spent a short time at an art school in Russia.

Wiley did not grow up with his father, and at the age of 20 traveled to Nigeria to explore his roots and meet him. Wiley earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and his MFA from Yale University, School of Art in 2001.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehinde_Wiley

He designed the pictures of Barrack and Michelle Obama just unveiled at the Smithsonian, his work was featured in Season 2 of Empire.


Check the IG link to see more.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfHQi71DvYC/

Truth234:


From the horse mouth “The games I’m playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences,” Wiley says. “It’s about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it’s not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes it’s actually embodying it.”

...and when next you see a white man ask him why his people colonized us, his answer, diplomatic or not, is racism/imperialism reconstruct.

mexxmoney:

Did you say just one of his arts? Dude, go research into the guy's artworks, racism is clearly a recurring theme in his works. It's only someone who decides to be biased or blind that won't see it. All the other things you wrote there just comes back to what I said i.e two wrongs have never and will never make a right. That Donald Trump does it is not a justification for you to do same. If you are supporting and encouraging someone doing the exact same thing Trump is doing, then what moral right do you have to condemn Trump? Are we saying racism is only racism when it's done by whites against blacks? Are we saying we should look the other way and pretend nothing is wrong if a black man is also being racist against whites? Four black teens abducted a mentally handicapped white man in Chicago, tortured him for hours with a knife and forced him to drink toilet water. Are we going to also excuse that by saying well, trump is a racist? I still maintain we must look beyond skin colour and call out bad deeds when we see it and praise good deeds too irrespective of whether it is been done by white or black

NovusHomo:


You don't design a portrait, you paint it.
You don't unveil someone, you present or introduce them.

He designed the pictures of Barrack and Michelle Obama just unveiled at the Smithsonian, his work was featured in Season 2 of Empire.

tuzeriouz:
The official portrait of Michelle Obama was painted by Amy Sherald.

transformed:
well I have seen only one, and thats the only one all right analyst are masturbating on...except if you term his painting of mostly black character racist