Name: Kehinde Wiley - 以不熟悉的方式創造熟悉的藝術｜每日秀場 (Kehinde Wiley - Creating Art That’s Familiar in an Unfamiliar Way | The Daily Show)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:33:16.000Z
Duration: 8 min 33 s
Description: 【看影片學英語】數萬部 YouTube 影片，搭配英漢字典即點即查，輕鬆掌握單字發音與用法，長久累積看電影不必再看字幕。

情態副詞

And, uh, congratulations on what I can only assume

You-You've been an artist for a very long time,

for the first black president of the United States

was one of the highlights of your life, I'm assuming.

I'm assuming it's probably going to be on my tombstone.

I have to say that being the first African American artist

to paint the portrait of the first African American, uh,

-president is quite the honor as well. -(cheering, applause)

And then the question is, how do you make that something

How do you make painting alive in the 21st century?

There must be a lot of pressure that comes with painting

because it-it's not just a portrait for Obama.

That's-that's a portrait that's supposed to live

-throughout time. -That's right. That's right.

In fact, what you have is a situation where it's like,

"No pressure or anything, but this is history."

-(laughs) -And... what we wanted was something that played

into all the rules around dignity and respect

and power but also a portrait that communicated who Obama is.

that didn't have all that sort of pomp and circumstance.

Uh, he's dressed rather casually for a presidential portrait.

-there's a bunch of flowers and leaves behind him. -Right.

Which people had never seen before in a portrait.

I-I remember when it came out, there were a lot of people

And it-- Like, it felt more-- It felt less

and more about the subject in the world they were in

-more than ever before. -Well-- Certainly, certainly.

I remember seeing Bart Simpson coming out of the, uh...

-coming out of the leaves. -(laughs) Oh, the Homer Simpson

-in the bushes? -Right. Right. That's right.

is that those flowers are telling a story about his life.

-there's the state flower of Hawaii, there's the... -Oh, wow.

And so it really charts his life globally as a means of saying,

-That's beautiful. That is really beautiful. -Yeah.

What did he say when he saw the portrait?

The first time he saw the portrait was that moment,

No, I mean, like, that's-- I would, like,

show it to him beforehand and be like, "What do you..."

'Cause, I mean, like, what if you pull down the thing

-and then he's like, "Uh, uh..."? -(laughs)

Well, weren't you stressed at that moment?

I was stressed more than you could imagine,

Everything's sort of moving in slow motion,

And since then, you have been on a journey

that-that has really been beautiful to watch,

because, you know, people have noticed your art,

and-and your art is-is art that I feel needs to be noticed,

because you do something that's really interesting.

-that we're familiar with in an unfamiliar way. -Hmm.

One of the... one of the more interesting pieces

Now, I hope some people saw it when it was in New York City.

it's a beautiful, I mean, statue that's...

I mean, it's a Confederate statue in its style,

and you see this young black man who's wearing Jordans,

and he's got jeans on, and he's got a hoodie.

that we associate with Confederate statues.

and why did you choose to create that piece?

Right. Uh, I mean, Confederate sculptures have been haunting

Most people think these things go back to slavery. They don't.