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thenewgreen  ·  3736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kehinde Wiley: The Officer of Hussars - 2007

    It definitely has an anti-establishment feel to me
-Precisely. The establishment is telling us what to think and what to speak. Our tongues are literally tied to them. Look at how red around the eyes and tired the "subject" is.

I also just like his aesthetic. I find it very disturbing in the same way I found the film Pans Labyrinth disturbing. There is a nursery rhyme feel to his work but in the vein of Grimm's fairy tales. Dark yet lurid.

I want one, but "J" can't stand his work. Someday, one will hang in my office at Hubski HQ :)