Quotes by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Page 1

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
Celebration
Sometimes
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People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
Black
Painting
People
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When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
People
Simple
Thinking
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The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
Important
Style
Thinking
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Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there. But I realized early on that painting from life wasn't something that I was all that invested in. I was always more interested in the painting than I was the people. For me, removing that as a compulsion offered me a lot more freedom to actually paint and think about color, form, movement, and light.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
Eye
People
Thinking
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It's hard to pin down what the politics would be, in a way. For me the politics are very visual and felt, thought, seen, but not necessarily put into words. The confusions and conditions within the work are the politics. The fact that a lot of the time the first thing people want to talk to me about is the racial angle, which is a part of the work and I am happy to talk about it, but it's not necessarily the first thing on my mind when I am making something.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye / Artist
Confusion
Mind
People
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