This weeks ALVC class focuses on the Postmodern theme "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 39 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley.
Kehinde Wiley Prince Tommaso Francesco of Savoy-Carignano 2006 Oil on Canvas 7 x 8 feet
Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm
Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm
1. 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.
“Julia Kristeva first introduced the term “intertextuality”…..Reading, viewing, hearing a text requires knowledge of other texts we have viewed, read, and heard before to frame them and in some instances to make sense of them; as Kristeva wrote, “Every text is form the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which impose a universe on it.”(Johnson-Woods, T, 2007)
“A text is intelligible only through "a mosaic of references and quotations that have lost their origins" (Kristeva's definition of intertextuality). Art works are similar in mosaics of implied references and responses.” (Georgetown University)
Intertextuality “is the concept of texts’ borrowing of each others’ words and concepts. This could mean as an entire ideological concept and as little as a world or phrase. (International Society for Study of Narrative)
It is the expression of the form that is mixing and transcendence between different areas. They break down the boundary of stereotypes in time, space, purpose.
2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
I think we can make sense of Wiley’s work, we should first know where he is from. He is an African-American. He probably tried to find African’s exist in art history that he knows. Wiley sublimed Africans through the transfer of young black men into portraits instead of original models. The transferred models in most of the portraits are young black men which wear the latest Hip-hop Street fashion with powerful poses. He has created a new style of figure that has engaged through representation of traditional and contemporary subject matter. His paintings are based on various gorgeous backgrounds from France’s Rococo, Islamic architecture, West African textile design to Hip-hop. I can say his art work is obviously accomplished as a new genre through intertextuality because his original ideas have lost their origins and his work is unique with a new meaning.
3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
Though he works have similar styles, it is often polarizing considering the pluralism. As a result he positively claimed to the pluralism by a loud color and a strong impression on his work. “Pluralism in art refers to the nature of art forms and artists as diverse. The cultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cultures. Inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders, ideologies, abilities, ages, religions, economic status and educational levels is valued. Pluralism honors differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities.”(Cultural Context) His work saw to emphasis their culture into equitable position in their respect of the wold’s cultures.
4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies, colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Wiley said, “I use French rococo influences, with its garishness and vulgarity, to complement the flashy attire and “display of material consumption” evident in hip-hop culture, which mirror the same baroque sensibilities that permeated European Renaissance painting.” (Cultural Studies Center) As like his comment he represented culture of young black men through quote historical source, they are totally different cultures. We can find some black men as models in contemporary art but they are not within that field of elegance mood. Wiley has raised questions through collapses of ideas between totally different cultures; it seems like a challenge to prejudices of western culture.
5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
you have read during your research.
We know his painting demolished the boundaries of art of history through representation. There is a new meaning as a twisted fusion style but I think the most of the factor is transferred models are black men. I think he awoke their presence that could not see in a historical figure. It means they are equal to other people as valuable as Human. Moreover, his work seems to be quipped inequality that they were excluded in history figure.
References:
Cultural context
Cultural Studies Center
Georgetown University
International Society for Study of Narrative
Johnson-Woods, T. (2007). Blame Canada (p104). New York, The Continuum International
absolutely loved your answer in question two, where you said, "I can say his art work is obviously accomplished as a new genre through intertextuality because his original ideas have lost their origins and his work is unique with a new meaning." gave me a whole lot more of an understanding about intextuality and intertextuality in his works. He re-creates something from previous art era's and puts a whole new look on what has come before him in art. His works show a dramatic change in which our world kind of lives in now, it is not just the wealthy and famous who are being painted but everyday people such as the young men in the paintings.
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