Zooming up to the present, Kehinde Wiley is a new darling of the art world. And he really has something - he paints portraits of black american men in an old masters' style. His patterned backgrounds are fabu (though he's beating the format like a drum seems) - aside from the old masters, his format reminds me of the renowned African portrait photographer Seydou Keita, from Mali.
Take-aways? Again, bold color. Background as equal partner. Real sense of the construction of an image - I guess that's what icon painters for centuries have been aiming toward.
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