His portray “Past Times” , bought for $21.1 million in 2018, becoming the most expensive painting of a contemporary Black artist ever offered in an public sale. Kehinde Wiley is best-known for his depiction of black subjects in conventional settings found in Old Masters’ work. In early 2018, he grew to become the first Black and brazenly gay artist to paint the potrait of an American President, Barack Obama. Wiley adopts the visual vocabulary of glorification, heroism and acquainted iconography to provide his modern, “urban” Black figures the same power that was long detained only by white subjects. For More…