Wileys Paintings

Wiley s art an online store featuring original abstract acrylic art prints items featuring his designs and hand painted wooden crafts by an artist with autism.

Wileys paintings. Artist kehinde wiley draws inspiration from the old master painters to craft his contemporary portrait paintings. Working exclusively in portraiture kehinde wiley fuses traditional formats and motifs with modern modes of representation. On february 12 2018 both wiley and the artist amy sherald unveiled their official presidential portraits of barack obama and michelle obama for the smithsonian national portrait gallery in washington d c. Wiley often appropriates or re uses recognizable art history images and tropes such as portraits of napoleon heroic sea paintings and traditional nudes.

Our experienced craftsman are dedicated to making sure that you the customer are completely satisfied with your home or commercial project. The exhibition also included wiley s first three channel artist film which has a voiceover quoting philosopher michel foucault s madness and civilisation and african caribbean philosopher frantz fanon s the wretched of the earth about otherness. This painting is part of wiley s in search of the miraculous series of nine paintings inspired by the seascapes of j m w. In his related ongoing world stage series wiley s heroic figures are depicted in front of colorful background patterns that make specific reference to textiles and decorative patterns of various cultures from.

It is our goal to gain you as a customer for life. In his work he has replaced the european royalty nobility and aristocrats that are the pillars of these pictures. The artist currently lives and works between new york ny and beijing china. Turner winslow homer and hieronymus bosch.

As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists including reynolds gainsborough titian ingres among others wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic powerful majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban black and brown men found throughout the world. The main subjects are now urban black and brown men found throughout the world. Wiley painting is a full service professional painting contractor. Selecting works from old masters like peter paul rubens or jacques louis david wiley replaces the historical figures with handsome young black men.