Solange's video for "Don't Touch My Hair," co-directed by the artist herself and her husband Alan Ferguson, is a series of stunning, immaculately styled and choreographed tableaux featuring uniformly dressed black people. Solange cited the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, a British-Ghanian painter who was shortlisted for the 2013 Turner Prize, as an influence on her new album A Seat At The Table. As Twitter user @joshjenks and W Magazine have pointed out, the video for "Don't Touch My Hair" resembles Yiadom-Boakye's work.
Yiadom-Boakye's portraiture has been shown across the United States and Europe. Her rough, sketch-like brushes are one of the signature elements of her style — a deliberate choice, she has said, to "make people intelligible through paint." The video for "Don't Touch My Hair" aims for a more traditional majesty, with cinematography that's part Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and part Fashion Week. Take a look at some comparisons below.
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/Screen_Shot_2016-10-03_at_1.43.21_PM_xzd1fp/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/ay_108615167_p7fu49/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/Screen_Shot_2016-10-03_at_1.46.11_PM_mgnod5/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/085a97d006ba412647564b1459b75ae4_mbestp/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/Screen_Shot_2016-10-03_at_2.40.44_PM_v6muxp/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)
![Meet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, The Painter Who Inspired Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” Video](https://thefader-res.cloudinary.com/private_images/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:eco/LYB15-40_f0bmgo/lynette-yiadom-boakye-solange-dont-touch-my-hair-music-video.jpg)