Inspiration for the next assignment

One of my favorite visual artists is Kehinde Wiley. I feel that it is appropriate to talk about him considering our current assignment is for portraiture. Wiley takes urban, black men and has them go through classical images for a pose to use. He then has them pose with their urban attire still on. After he is done painting, he adds a design reminiscent of wallpaper to the background. He picks these specific subjects because "black males are missing from this style of art," according to Wiley. These are a few of his paintings.