Barack Obama Chose an Artist Who Painted Notorious B.I.G. and LL Cool J for Smithsonian portrait.
Barack Obama, America’s resident Cool Dad, has just announced his selection of Kehinde Wiley as the artist to paint his official presidential portrait that will hang in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Wiley, who is represented by Sean Kelly gallery in New York, had a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, and his work has fetched as much as $143,000 at auction, according to the Artnet Price Database. Wiley is known for his portraiture work that places black men and women in contemporary Baroque paintings, depicting them in a manner that historically was reserved only for European white noblemen. His disruptive work applies the familiar tropes of Baroque paintings—glorification, wealth, and prestige—to contemporary urban culture, blending the old with the new. He has painted the likes of Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash, and soon, Barack Obama.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/barack-obama-chose-an-artist-whos-painted-notorious-big-and-ll-cool-j-for-his-official-smithsonian-presidential-portrait?mbid=social_twitter
= new reply since forum marked as read
