Kehinde Wiley creates paradigm shift in the art world 

Yeah, jussie's , with a sea of maga hats as a background

truth betold Go look at his work in person of black women holding white women’s severed heads!

This is not hyperrealism, it is just realism.

YES, I JUST came from the exhibit today and it was amazing!

LOL..

Yeah, Richmond is really going downhill.

+lestudio76 Yeah ive known about his work for about 10 years!

lestudio76 he’s only getting this much attention for the Obama portraits he created

Do you mean the portraits based on the story of Judith in the Old Testament? Those paintings are just as classically inspired and just as artful as the rest of his work, but with all due respect, I don't think you really care about that. You just want something to be offended by.

Jeff Lebowski I guess you can justify anything when it suits you liberals.

The "original" paintings weren't white women holding black women's heads! And don't talk like "the book of Judith" is in the St. James Bible, it isn't. It is considered "non-historical ", so get over yourself trying to justify this racist and his violent racist POOR painting COPIES!!

someone is triggered.... why don't you do some research before crying rascist.

Hahahahaha

You do realize that the beheading painting is titled "Judith and Holofernes" and is a direct reference to the biblical story of Judith in the Old Testament, right? Or are you just being sanctimonious without actually researching the painting you're talking about?

Thus is the famous double standard

If a white painter painted what you mentioned it would represent something different, duh.

John Johnson That's why it's called a double-standard, genius.

zonkster909 There are numerous pieces of art throughout history where not only black people are depicted hung, being enslaved, tortured, killed etc, but also Europeans themselves hanging, decapitating, enslaving, torturing, killing each other. These pieces are of course significant memoirs of your past in museums to expressive pieces by the artists themselves all over the world. You are allowed to show your history and express yourselves but of course your white privilege kicks in when it's the other way around.

@@ectoskeletal you can admire. But it still lacks integrity if there are added hands other than the artist doing the painting.

@@ectoskeletal not an opinion. It is a EDUCATING OPINION. That is a difference. I did not discredit Mr.Wiley's art. Not once. You are assuming and using confirmation bias to stretch your imagination.

That's because it's full of snakes, dead sheep and reptiles

@@letusmakemaninourvanity1366 and poison ivy

I know, I don't know how people are impressed by this.

Thinking the same thing. All this is, is a race hustle. He isn't bad, but he isn't great. He has about as skill as those people doing cover for cheap novels you see dollar stores or wall-mart.

You both sound like the biggest haters on the planet.

He has a MFA...

Just disappointed. He isn't anywhere close to being as good as he's been made out to be. Jeremy Geddes and Roberto Ferri are probably my personal favorite painters working today and they are many leagues above this guy but I don't think they get as much attention. I could be wrong, but I don't think they do. Though Ferri did do portraits of I think multiple popes. Anyhow something really petty about people who use that word "hater". It's nice you can label someone but can you address the argument?

I've had many art teachers with MFA and virtually all of them were garbage.

Street art? Can you expand on that?