This weeks ALVC class focuses on the Postmodern theme
"INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page
44 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley.
Find a
clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using
the APA referencing system. Use your own words to explain the definition more
thoroughly.
“a text’s unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. The
framing of texts by other texts has implications not only for their writers but
also their readers”(Barthes 1977,1480)
Intertextuality is looking at a piece of
writing or artwork and trying to compare or relate it to something familiar. It
is often that we do this, critiques do this quite often as well for example art
critiques constantly compare how a new artists to a previous well known artist.
Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph
that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in
Wiley's work.
Wiley paint’s portraits based on
photographs of African American men whom he sees in the streets in heroic terms.
Merging between street style and postmodern painting. Intertexuality is present
because in his work we start to think of segregation where it was the white man
usually in the high positions. In today’s society if we see a young man dressed
they way the young men are dressed in Wiley’s paintings we immediately label
them as a thug/gangster. So not only does Wiley make us think in a historical
context but also in a mordenr day context through his work.
Wiley's work relates to next weeks
Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 51 and discuss how the work
relates to this theme.
The post-modern belief is that we are all
equal. Men from any cultural background excluding European are just as powerful
and have rights just as equal to Europeans. Wiley lets us remember this in his
work using pluralism.
Comment on how Wiley's work raises
questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation,
stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Wiley fades out the social hierarchies of the
“white man” always being in power and the “black man” being in a lesser
position. He makes stereotypical people in society realize that skin colour no
longer matters. Globalism is present because other artists are following Wiley’s
lead in the messages he portrays in his work through pluralism. He is also
politically correct in his work , showing that in this day and age nothing is
based on one’s racial background e.g. whether you deserve to die or not, these
politics govern the western world.
Add some
reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during
your research.
I find Wiley’s work to be eye catching, which was the idea
since his portraits are quite large and colourful. His paintings fuse history
and style in a manner different to others. His models were asked to replicate
poses from the paintings of renaissance masters such as Tiziano Vecellio and
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Which helps portray his message across to the
audience quite clearly.
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