In 1975, Laura Mulvey put forward the idea of the "male gaze", that images of women are produced to be static objects for men to look at.Wiley talks about portraiture and the "field of power", referring to the way that painted portraits of people indicates that they are powerful, but also that portraits hold the potential to give power to those who are painted in this way, turning traditional portrait painting upside down.At a time when young black men are constantly vilified in the press and mainstream media, and even murdered on the street by racist policemen, Wiley's portraits are an essential document of the power, fashion, versatility and beauty of the black community in the USA. It is vitally important to Wiley that black people, especially black American men, are both the subjects and the audience of his paintings. Wiley's work falls into the category of Identity Art and Identity Politics, which is art, film, and writing, that deals primarily with aspects of the artist's identity, for example race, gender, and sexuality.
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