NOW ON VIEW in our Lobby: Kehinde WileyAfter touring six cities for more than two years, Kehinde Wil

NOW ON VIEW in our Lobby: Kehinde WileyAfter touring six cities for more than two years, Kehinde Wiley’s monumental, nine-foot portrait is back in Brooklyn! Now on view in our Rubin Lobby, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005) transforms the traditional equestrian portrait by substituting an anonymous young Black man dressed in contemporary clothing for the figure of Napoleon, to present a new kind of portraiture that redefines and affirms Black identity and simultaneously questions the history of Western painting. Wiley has stated that “Painting is about the world we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. This is my way of saying yes to us.”Posted by Susan FisherKehinde Wiley (American, born 1977). Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Partial gift of Suzi and Andrew Booke Cohen in memory of Ilene R. Booke and in honor of Arnold L. Lehman, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, and William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund , 2015.53. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link

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