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Kehine Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares, 2005
Oil on canvas
108 x 108 in
Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977)
Wiley was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Nigerian father and African American mother. Wiley took an interest in art when his mother enrolled him in after-school art classes. At age 11, Wiley attended an art exchange program in Russia. In 1999, Wiley earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2001 earned a MFA from Yale University.
Wiley is best known for creating heroic portraits of young African American men whom Wiley encountered on the streets. His first solo exhibition, Passing/Posing, was shown in 2002 at the Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, IL. In 2005, his popularity increased when VH1 commissioned Wiley to paint portraits of all the 2005 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors honorees.
Terrance Osborne, a native New Orleanian, grew up in the heart of the culturally rich city of New Orleans. Being inspired by his diverse and colorful social surroundings, Osborne always held an undercurrent interest in art, largely fueled by his mother and his older brother. Fascinated by color, Osborne worked with whatever materials he could get his hands on.
Osborne attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (N.O.C.C.A.) while in high school and later graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Xavier University in New Orleans. For the following five years he taught at Alice Harte in the public school system. After Hurricane Katrina Osborne decided to dedicate his time completely to his art. His work has recently become a national recognized item. Over the past few years he has been featured in a slew of public media. In 2004 Osborne was granted the honorary “Forty Under Forty Award” for his teaching and artistic contributions to the city of New Orleans. In 2006 Osborne was honored by New Orleans Magazine as one of the “Fifty People to Watch” for 06′.
In 2007 his Official Jazz & Heritage Festival Poster quickly became one of the most sought after posters of the year. In 2008 Osborne partnered with Nike to design a poster and the first New Orleans Air Force 1 tennis shoe. His association with Nike led to a relationship with the NBA Hornets of which Osborne designed the first official Hornets poster. Be it art connoisseur or causal collector, Terrance Osborne’s art continues to be highly sought after.
Bisa Butler creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life.
Butler often works with photographs as source images, reimagining the figures captured as attentive portraits with layers of color and stitched details. She strategically selects fabrics, using the history or imagery of the prints to reinforce the stories she wants to communicate in each quilt. Layering materials and meanings, Butler brings to life personal and historical narratives of Black life and invites viewers to look closely and think deeply about the potential and purposes of portraiture.
Butler earned her BFA at Howard University, Washington, DC, and her MA in arts education at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Trained as a painter, she shifted to quiltmaking during her graduate studies, when she made a quilt in honor of her grandmother. She has exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States as well as in China, England, Japan, and South Africa.
Delita Martin, “Resting Place” (2020), charcoal, acrylic, decorative papers, hand stitching
Contemporary American artist Delita Martin was born in Conroe, Texas. In addition to the familial influences of her father (a carpenter and painter) and grandmother (a quilter), Martin also cites American artist Elizabeth Catlett as an important source of inspiration for her work.
Martin infuses her portraits of Black Americans, especially women, with a mystical dimension. Describing herself as a “conduit or vessel,” she seeks to make visible her subjects’ ancestral and spiritual connections by layering her high-relief prints with symbols rendered in hand-stitching, paint, drawing, and collage. This liminal realm between the physical and spiritual is suggested by a layer that she calls a “veilscape.”
Martin received a BFA in drawing in 2002 from Texas Southern University and an MFA in printmaking from Purdue in 2009. From 2008 to 2012, she served on the arts faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 2008, Martin founded Black Box Press Studio, a print studio and fellowship program that she operates outside of Houston.
Using the 4 artworks provided, write a well-developed response explaining how the artist uses the Elements of Art and Principles of Design to create an effective composition.
Choose ONE of the artists in your responses. You must give reference to the artist and title of the artwork you are commenting on.
In your response, you must:
Identify and discuss at least three Elements of Art: line, shape, form, color, value, texture, or space.
Identify and discuss at least three Principles of Design: balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, or unity.
Give specific visual evidence from the artwork. Don't just say, "The artist uses contrast." Explain where the contrast occurs and what it accomplishes.
Explain how the Elements and Principles work together to guide the viewer's eye, establish a focal point, create a mood, or make the composition feel unified.
End with your evaluation: What is the strongest part of the composition, and what could the artist change to make the work more successful?
Suggested length: 2–3 well-developed paragraphs. 300 - 400 word count
Sentence starters
One Element of Art that is especially important in this artwork is ______ because...
The artist uses ______ to draw the viewer's attention to...
An example of ______ can be seen in...
The Element ______ helps create the Principle ______ by...
The viewer's eye is led through the composition by...
The strongest part of this composition is...
One change that could improve the composition would be…
Higher level understanding would look like the following:
"The Element ______ helps create the Principle ______ by..."
The repeated curved lines throughout the composition create movement because they lead the viewer's eye from the lower-left corner toward the focal point
Instead of just saying “composition”, write specific things you see in the artwork.
Example: In Terrance Osbourne’s “Through the Streets”, the flowing lines of the water help create movement because they lead the viewer’s eyes across the canvas