iswallker:


Go and audition and get a job...

That's what Wiley did..

I go employ you my guy and pay your annual salary ahead. idiot. you think say na all nairalanders like you no get work?

kolawoleibukun:
I go employ you my guy and pay your annual salary ahead. idiot. you think say na all nairalanders like you no get work?

You misunderstand me...

Auditioning and getting jobs is what artistes do..

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

you know nothing about art...

judgedredd22:



you know nothing about art...

Abeg take your low IQ out of my mention ..those that know what I am saying know what I am saying .

FarahAideed:


Abeg take your low IQ out of my mention ..those that know what I am saying know what I am saying .

with all your supposed IQ, you still can't make sense! Spewing brain farts is not a show of intelligence in any form! keep quiet!!

FarahAideed:
You also failed to mention that Kehinde Wiley is a controversial artist with racist approach to most of his works where his subjects can mostly be seen with decapitations of severed Caucasian heads in an art form bothering the disturbed .

Thank you for this comment! The dude is a bloodie racist blm Arrow! He should come to Nigeria and showcase his activism against the rampaging herdsmen and quit trying to change the Anglo-American empire to the Nigerian shithole that he (or his parents) escaped!! He sure is hitting the air as his activism in the States wont change nada about the fabric of Anglo-American society!!!

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/

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Beautiful and controversial paintings.
Nice post.

He is Ibibio not Yoruba.

castrol180:
That's my Yoruba guy...