Pictured is Kehinde Wiley, a super-talented, naturalistic painter who is of Nigerian descent and some of his incredible paintings. The 39-year-old Los Angeles born artist, is an American portrait-painter of African origin. His father is Yoruba from Nigeria, and his mother is African-American.
He is an artist known for his big, flashy paintings of young African-American men recast as the kings, dandies, prophets and saints of European portraiture.
Kehinde Wiley has situated himself firmly within art history's tradition of portrait painting.
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