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.
Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts. It can include an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. I think an artist will have got his/her ideas from a piece of work that already exists or an idea that another artist has already presented.
Kehinde Wiley Support Army and Look after People, 2007 oil on canvas, 258.4 x 227.3cm Kehinde Wiley Count Potocki, 2008 oil on canvas, 274.3 x 274.3cm
Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
His work seems to be on a remix tip, cutting and scratching the Masters in perfect rhythm to insert the Hip Hop generation into the pocket.. Per his bio, "Wiley's figurative paintings and sculptures quote historical sources and position young black men within the field of power." The detail was as real as one could achieve and Wiley makes historical intertextual references and transforms it into a more contemporary version for the now post-modern world.
Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
The cultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect of 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 honours differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities.(para1) --That relates to Wiley's work through his stock theme of a "black man" being an equal to all others,Apart from alluding to historic paintings, Wiley makes referrals to issue of the ‘white man vs the black man’, and he does this so easily because one of the first things that occurs in the mind of the viewer is the idea of him glorifying coloured men in his paintings.
Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies, colonization, globalization, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview. His paintings refer to these issues by showing the idea that the coloured man also has a lot of power and demands his respect back. In my opinion, Wiley may also be speaking for the rest of the races and using his characters as a symbolism for the men who were not part of the Western hierarchy.
AUT (2011), Achademic Literacies in Visual Communication 2. Auckland. Printsprint.
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