Category: Art history
POSTED IN Art, Art history, Ceramics & Pottery (Clay), Culture, Sculpture
Lady Kwali
By Tobijulo Onifade Art class 2007, the topic for the week is colour theory and our assignment is to create a piece with the theme ‘Pottery’. A week after, a classmate comes up with this beautifully painted work of a woman moulding a pot with other ceramic works around her. I asked my classmate where […]
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POSTED IN Art, Art history, Assemblage, Culture, Sculpture
Power Show: Spotlighting a Legacy of Darkness
By Adefoyeke Ajao On February 3rd, 2018, at the Omenka Gallery in Ikoyi, Ayo Akinwande’s Power Show opened to the public. Curated by Erin Rice, Power Show highlights Nigeria’s numerous flaws through the prism of its oft-vilified power sector. Inspired by Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s track of the same title, this exhibition reflects […]
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POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawing, Drawn art
Artist of the Week – Jacqueline Suowari
By Adefoyeke Ajao When most people think about art, they think of all things colourful, but Jacqueline Suowari’s pen ink and acrylic portraits confute the notion that monochrome figures can be less captivating than their colourful counterparts. Born in 1990, Suowari is a graduate of University of Port Harcourt, where she majored in painting. However, […]
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CFA Banknotes
By Tobijulo Onifade According to the Apple dictionary, a banknote is a piece of paper money, constituting a central bank’s promissory note to pay a stated sum to the bearer on demand. I am a bit fascinated by banknotes; I see them as an illustrated I.D of a country. There are many beautifully decorated banknotes but the Central African […]
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Artist of the Week: Godwin Akpan
By Tobijulo Onifade About 3 weeks ago, I was on the Africandigitalartist website when I came across an art piece on their Instagram feed. This piece was a digital illustration of a temple/mountain scene of some sort using famous Nigerian relics. It was beautiful but what I remember most was the way it made me […]
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POSTED IN Art, Art history, Culture, Drawn art, Painting
Painting with Scissors
By Tobijulo Onifade Draughtsman Printmaker and Sculptor, Henri Matisse was born the 31st of December 1869 in Northern France. He was originally trained as a lawyer but fell in love with Art in 1889 while recuperating from appendicitis. Matisse was known for his use of colour and was a founding member of Fauvism (les fauves, […]
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Mosaic Using Watercolour
By Tobijulo Onifade A mosaic is a decorative art form which uses small pieces of materials placed together to create a unified whole. The apple dictionary also defines mosaic as a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, and so much more. Mosaics have been in existence since the […]
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Artist of the Week: Fatola Israel
By Tobijulo Onifade Fatola Israel is a final year Visual Art student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Nigeria. Fatola is a multi-talented in various aspects of Fine Art such as Landscape drawing, Portraiture, just to name a few as well as well-versed with various mediums such as Pencil, Colour pencils, Charcoal, and so on. […]
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Showcasing African Art Online, Real Time
By Adefoyeke Ajao When the word gallery is used, it usually conjures an image of an imposing edifice that serves as an exclusive playground for elite artists, art enthusiasts and collectors. For those cautious about visiting brick and mortar galleries, GTBank is reinventing the notion of art galleries in Nigeria with Art635. A Corporate Social […]
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