#kehinde

[femmeetart]

heavy lays the crown

[nerves-nebula]

The Last (Cursed) Boat Home by Nerves Nebula

Maybe everything will turn out ok, just don't forget: You're cursed.

PLAY! my visual novel demo!! I made it for the 2025 nonbinary game jam!!! It's got priests and otters and sad teens and butchers and a magical curse and all but 2 characters are nonbinary cuz thats the default

[skittikyu]

[geishainthemoonlight]

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[artsbyrhea]

Triple Portrait of Charles II (2008), Kehinde Wiley

American portrait artist Kehinde Wiley is widely renowned in the art world for his sensitive depictions of black men and women, redefining traditional conventions of historical European portraiture. He uses these well established conventions within a modern context, presenting young people of colour in this way as an expression of empowerment, allowing them into the circles that they were historically excluded from.

Across the vast majority of his works, including this one, he places his focus on everyday people in his neighbourhoods, elevating them to the status that was so easily afforded to these historical figures. This painting is based on Van Dyck's portrait of Charles I, a triple depiction used to capture multiple angles of the sitter, used by Van Dyck to prepare for a sculpture, but used by Wiley to capture multiple dimensions of the same man. He creates a sense of more passive masculinity that both subverts the likely lives of his subjects and the historic expectations of men. Delicate colours and floral motifs are a common theme across many of his series, and it is what he has become most well known for, a purposeful contradiction to the pressures of hypermasculinity that society places on men. He also uses the floral pattern over the jackets, drawing a connection between the historic influences and the hypermodern subjects. Wiley's works centre on ideas of identity and the conflict between expectations and the individual sense of self. The subject here presents an image of confidence, looking out towards the viewer in every individual portrait, echoing the historic confidence of monarchs, secure in the belief of their divine right to rule.

In this painting, Wiley creates a very delicate and sensitive sense of his subject and the balance between the image of stereotypical masculinity that he presents and the more gentle background that surrounds him. His work is unashamedly bright and bold, drawing attention to figures and stories that have been neglected throughout art history.

[brooklynmuseum]

Thank you to all those who made our Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley exhibition the spot to be this Black History Month! Be sure to share your visit to DavidxWiley using #mybkm for a chance to be featured like recent visitors fredamind weketchum diamondeharris apassionatecreator brownskintopanga kettyjoerose lifebythelapels ohheychanice maroonwaters michaeloloyede_ rina.loves.it.all

[doubleyouworld]

[nerves-nebula]

wip of a fucking thing im tryna do. benison's supposed to be here but she needs a bit of a redesign first. also not all of the elements for these designs are present yet.. cuz im tired... so this all i got for now