Go
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Kehinde Wiley American, born 1977. Go, 2003. Oil on panel, Each panel: 48 x 120 x 2 1/2 in. (121.9 x 304.8 x 6.4 cm) Installed: 240 x 120 in. (609.6 x 304.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B, 2003.90.1a-e. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2003.90.1a-e_Design_scan.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Go
Date
2003
Medium
Oil on panel
Classification
Dimensions
Each panel: 48 x 120 x 2 1/2 in. (121.9 x 304.8 x 6.4 cm) Installed: 240 x 120 in. (609.6 x 304.8 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Smith Dorward Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B
Accession Number
2003.90.1a-e
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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Frequent Art Questions
Can you explain this piece? Are the males in it famous rappers?
That is a painting by Kehinde Wiley. The men are not famous rappers. They are ordinary men that Wiley met on the streets who chose to pose for him.You may have read this on the label already, but if not: "This ceiling mural of five panels depicts five young black men in various poses floating through a blue sky scattered with cumulus clouds. Large, ornate doily-like halos surround the head and most of the body of three of the figures. Only the legs of one figure are visible; a figure in the far distance has a doily-like halo encircling his head."The artist is using famous art history paintings and art historical styles such as Baroque and Rococo but with contemporary sitters dressed in their own clothing to make a comment about the absence of Black sitters in art history.Who are the people in this ceiling painting?
Good question! We don't know who they are specifically. The artist, Kehinde Wiley, finds his models by walking around the streets and asking people to participate in his art. He first started this process while he was an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in 2001 and has since expanded this practice to projects in other countries as well.
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