Intertextuality is when you have a piece of Artwork/writing and find similar qualities in it from another piece of work that makes you understand it more. A lot of Artists these days are doing so as they try to reproduce an Artists work.
Wiley's portraits are based on photographs of young men who he sees on the Street. His models were asked to assume poses from the paintings of Renaissance masters. "He creats a fusion on period styles, ranging from French Rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interior colour swatch.(Wikipedia.com, n.d)
"Pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. It honors differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities." ALVC.2, Caldwell (1999), Page 46 Para 1. You see this in Wileys work as he uses the influence of "Old Masters" in his portraits of African American men.
Wileys work creates a lot of interest in a way that develops questions. "Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the the herioc, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world." KehindeWiley.com,n.d. For me stereotypes show in Wiley work how he has used African American men, dressed them in normal "gangsta" clothing and placed them in a high classed power setting. This gives us many questions in what he is trying to portray in these images to the audience.
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