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“Wiley borrows the wallpaper of European portraiture — emerald, cobalt, and gilded yellow — and turns it into the ground for figures the genre forgot to paint.”
Kehinde Wiley
Painter · Contemporary · b. 1977
American painter whose portraits set young Black sitters against rococo florals in emerald, cobalt, and gilded yellow.
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“Wiley borrows the wallpaper of European portraiture — emerald, cobalt, and gilded yellow — and turns it into the ground for figures the genre forgot to paint.”
American painter whose portraits set young Black sitters against rococo florals in emerald, cobalt, and gilded yellow.