His realistic portraits offer the spectacle and beauty of traditional European art while simultaneously critiquing their exclusion of people of color. Wiley’s lavish, larger-than-life images of African-American men play on Old Master paintings.

Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220-4007 USA, (Phone) 804.204.2760 or 804.204.2761, (Fax) 804.340.1548, or (Email) big part of what I'm questioning in my work is what does it meant to be authentic, to be real, to be a genuine article or an absolute fake? What does it mean to be a real black man? Realness is a term applied so heavily to black men in our society. Requests to reproduce and/or republish any materials on this web site should be addressed to the VMFA Office of Rights and Reproductions at: (Address) 200 N. Public domain images downloaded from the VMFA web site should be credited: 'Image courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.' Additional caption information is provided with the downloaded image file. Images that are only presented as thumbnails are protected by copyright and are not available for download. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions before copying, transmitting, or making other use of protected items beyond that allowed by 'fair use,' as such term is understood under the United States Copyright Act. The Museum does not warrant that the use of materials displayed on this site will not infringe on the rights of third parties, such as artists or artists' heirs holding the rights to these works. Use of text and images in which VMFA holds the copyright is permitted, with attribution, under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC).Ĭopyright and other proprietary rights in material on this site may be held by individuals or entities other than or in addition to VMFA. © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, unless otherwise noted.

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