Kehinde Wiley is a classically trained African American painter who attempts to remake the western canon of art. Since the history of European art predominantly features people with fair skin, Wiley attempts to rectify this perceived injustice by copying the Old Masters and replacing light-skinned people with dark-skinned people. In […]
Walking toward the south end of campus, you’ll see a new building at the University of Texas. It’s a large bulbous looking structure near the Blanton Museum of Art, as you pass between the PCL building and Jester dorm. It looks like a giant igloo from the back–plain stone, bereft […]
Can you tell what the worldview of an artist is just by looking at their work? In this episode, we make a connection between the art of American artist, Ellsworth Kelly, and the worldview known as ‘naturalism’.