Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley is a painter based in New York. As the contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, he appropriates the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic that he integrates in black urban youth representations : power, opulence, majestic and sublime associate with the dress codes of hip-hop.
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