The dance
Umeh utilizes secondary colours in brisk strokes to show a group of dancing women. The purple and the ochre colours compliment each other on the opposite ends. This can be seen as ascending dusts or earth, as the dancing becomes intense. Dancing by women is unique to age grades in periods of homing coming, harvests […]
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Umeh Bede
Lagos, Nigeria
Umeh Bede Ifeanyichukwu was born on the 12th of February 1965 in Jos Plateau State, Nigeria. Umeh enrolled into the famous Yaba College of Technology Lagos where he graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in painting. He worked briefly as an illustrator with Arbil, an advertising agency in Bodija Ibadan before retiring into full-time […]
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40" X 36" Inches
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Umeh utilizes secondary colours in brisk strokes to show a group of dancing women. The purple and the ochre colours compliment each other on the opposite ends. This can be seen as ascending dusts or earth, as the dancing becomes intense. Dancing by women is unique to age grades in periods of homing coming, harvests and other traditional festivals. In this painting, Umeh tries to represent rhythmic movement, pace and colour inherent in this sort of dances.
