Kehinde Wiley: How To Make It In Art

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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An art world superstar who’s full of brilliance and ego, and who’s willing to strip and be a nude model for his fellow artists, Kehinde Wiley is a portraitist who has become one of the dominant painters of his generation on an artistic level and on a business level. He’s got studios around the globe and many assistants and a vision for his work that is recognized and respected across the world. He’s been featured on the walls in Empire. He’s painted Michael Jackson and Kanye. He’s currently painting the official portrait of President Barack Obama for the National Portrait Gallery. In this intense conversation, he explores the development of his style of art and explains how he became a star and the challenges of setting up shop in a far-flung country—once in the Congo he and his team got thrown in jail for five days! Kehinde is a genius. Flat out. And he’s an extrovert. And it’s always fun to encounter that combination. There’s a lot here for people who want to be artists, people who love art, or people who have big dreams—Kehinde is all about all of that. Toure Show is about me talking to successful people about their journey. What tactics, attitudes, and strategies helped them become successful? What do they know that can help you rise? My hope is that these conversations are valuable for you. Toure Show Ep 8 Kehinde Wiley: How To Make It In Art. Host & Writer: Toure Producer: Chris Colbert Studio: Cadence 13 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock
0:07.9	Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,
0:14.4	playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.
0:18.3	Here we go!
0:19.3	I'm for a drum and bass!
0:21.3	Oh, just 110 pounds!
0:24.0	Tom Bola!
0:25.0	Open for fun!
0:27.0	Terms apply 18 plus.
0:29.0	Please play safely.
0:30.0	Gheende Wiley was in his mid-20s when he found his signature style and he was afraid it wouldn't work.
0:38.0	And I still have memories of that period where I knew I was on to something, but I also had fears that no one would like it.
0:47.0	I had fears that I was moving so far outside of the Taste game that was being played by so many other artists and being
0:54.8	consumed by the public and so many what nothing else was looking like this my fear
0:59.2	that it was just it was too beautiful it was too decadent was too bombastic, and that it wouldn't be embraced.
1:05.6	He was then doing a residency at the Studio Museum of Harlem and the influx of Harlem into
1:10.9	his system.
1:12.3	After years studying painting in Yale's MFA program and at the San Francisco
1:17.6	Art Institute and years growing up in South Central LA, all of that primed him to create a style that has helped
1:25.1	him become one of the most successful visual artists of his generation.
1:29.8	Certainly the most commercially successful black artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat.
1:35.4	Kehenday style is a collision of old and new of the old masters and hip-hop aesthetics as if
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