His portray “Past Times” , offered for $21.1 million in 2018, becoming the costliest painting of a contemporary Black artist ever bought in an public sale. Kehinde Wiley is best-known for his depiction of black subjects in traditional settings found in Old Masters’ paintings. In early 2018, he turned the first Black and openly gay artist to color the potrait of an American President, Barack Obama. Wiley adopts the visual vocabulary of glorification, heroism and acquainted iconography to offer his up to date, “urban” Black figures the identical power that was long detained solely by white topics. That is, until …