Kehinde Wiley says he breaks art lessons into bite‑size steps for young students. He points out that his paintings often mix history, eroticism, and current issues like Black Lives Matter. He also believes we are wired to feel empathy and curiosity, and he works with photos and Photoshop to turn ideas into 21st‑century art.
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Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter from New York City who paints realistic pictures of Black people.
About Kehinde Wiley
His style often references the techniques of Old Master paintings. In 2017 he was chosen to paint former President Barack Obama’s portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.
![“In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the difference between one Italian sculptor to the next. You know, this - these are things that we don't necessarily assume of people in sanctified light.” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/856/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_in-our-conversations-he-michael-jackson_3203876.jpg)
![“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a08/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-think-at-the-l-a-county-museum-of-art_1563358.jpg)
