This volume includes a selection of 22 new portrait paintings from Kehinde Wiley's multinational World Stage series, which has included Africa, China and India in the past and now moves on to Brazil. Immersing himself in the local culture of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley incorporates the people, history and aesthetic of the city in each of his monumental male portraits. His models, chosen from the favela slums, reflect historically significant public sculptures found within the city. Oversize tropical flowers in full bloom, appropriated from Brazilian textiles, inundate the work with saturated, brightly hued colors suggestive of Brazilian exoticism. Likening African-descended, young Brazilian males to canonical figures from Western art history as well as Brazilian public monuments, Wiley renders masculinity both august and noble. Text in English and Portuguese.
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Beautiful Talent,
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Without a doubt a wonderful experience to look at the work of someone and see their talent, skill and creativity all come together to make you want to look and look and look and look and come back later for more. Nuff said...Ashe, Ache, Axe' Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Brazil
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I will keep this review short and sweet considering I like to be long-winded and might go on a tangent about how Kehinde Wiley is a great artist. But to restate a fact, Kehinde Wiley is a terrific artist, I respect him and I enjoy looking at his artwork, which is why I wanted to purchase this book. When I received this book, I was a little bit disappointed in the size or thickness of the book, I felt that it was too short. The painting in the book were great but I felt that I could have just kept my money and searched through the internet and enjoy his works from Brazil. I felt that it's not worth the money to spend on this book considering it's extremely short and thinner than I thought it was. As stated before, I could have saved my money and just rummaged through tumblr, flickr or a random google search. This book was okay and I recommend it to people who are an avid fan of Wiley and love to keep his pieces on hand in something tangible. If you are not one of those people and just want to see what Wiley's artwork is all about then I suggest you save your money and google search his artworks.
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For someone searching for large images of Kehinde Wiley's work, this is a great buy. I also love how the images of his sources are juxtaposed with Wiley's paintings. I'm an artist who doesn't usually read the text, so no review there. The images are incredible!
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