Drawing
Painting is like silent poem, said Simonides, poet from ancient Greece.Paintings are icons, doors to the Platonian world above the heavens. Paintings on my blog are just those icons, which lead a viewer into the magic world of harmony and beauty. Artists who present their achievements on my blog have a very different cultural and national background, they represent variety of artistic traditions and schools
Showing posts with label african art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label african art. Show all posts
Hillary Lusanji - Portraits
Arts Sanjay
"My official names are Hillary Lusanji 21years of age. I am a male Kenyan citizen. The name Sanjay, I derived it from my last name Lusanji so I came up with the artistic name Sanjay Arts which now most people refer to me as. I began doing art at the age of 7years when I was in primary school.
In 2011 when I joined high school I had to stop doing arts and focus on my studies because arts wasn't being offered in the school. I embarked in drawing in 2015 when I finished high school.
It wasn't easy because, there were some challenges along the way which I had to struggle with in the art industry but it was all worth it because now I am doing doing commissioned pen and pencil portraits. My aim is to be able to speak to the world through art and maybe someday open an art gallery where each and and every artist will be welcomed to come and showcase their work.
Here are some samples of my work" Hillary Lusanji
In 2011 when I joined high school I had to stop doing arts and focus on my studies because arts wasn't being offered in the school. I embarked in drawing in 2015 when I finished high school.
It wasn't easy because, there were some challenges along the way which I had to struggle with in the art industry but it was all worth it because now I am doing doing commissioned pen and pencil portraits. My aim is to be able to speak to the world through art and maybe someday open an art gallery where each and and every artist will be welcomed to come and showcase their work.
Here are some samples of my work" Hillary Lusanji
Prince Twins Seven Seven - Nigerian painter, sculptor and musician
Twins Seven Seven, born Omoba Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki (3 May 1944 – 16 June 2011)in Ogidi, Kogi State, Nigeria, was a Nigerian painter, sculptor and musician."Prince Twins Seven-Seven he came to the United States in the late 1980s and settled in the Philadelphia area, although he traveled abroad frequently. His life entered a turbulent period, filled with drinking and gambling, he said. Destitute, he found work as a parking-lot attendant for Material Culture, a large Philadelphia store that sells antiquities, furnishings and carpets.
When the owner learned that Prince Twins Seven-Seven was an artist, he had him decorate the store’s wrapping paper. Later, he was given a small room to use as a studio.His career rebounded. In 2000, the Indianapolis Museum of Art opened a wing devoted to contemporary African art with an exhibition featuring his work, which was also included in an exhibition that year at the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian.In 2005, after being nominated by President Olosegun Obaganjo of Nigeria, Prince Twins Seven-Seven was named one of Unesco’s Artists for Peace, a position that gave him new international visibility.
Prince Twins Seven-Seven, who lived in Ibadan and Oshogbo, is survived by many wives, children and grandchildren."(New York Times)
When the owner learned that Prince Twins Seven-Seven was an artist, he had him decorate the store’s wrapping paper. Later, he was given a small room to use as a studio.His career rebounded. In 2000, the Indianapolis Museum of Art opened a wing devoted to contemporary African art with an exhibition featuring his work, which was also included in an exhibition that year at the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian.In 2005, after being nominated by President Olosegun Obaganjo of Nigeria, Prince Twins Seven-Seven was named one of Unesco’s Artists for Peace, a position that gave him new international visibility.
Prince Twins Seven-Seven, who lived in Ibadan and Oshogbo, is survived by many wives, children and grandchildren."(New York Times)
Akan David
Akan David "explores traditional painting using surrealism, sgraffito, chromolumism (pointillism) . His works are Mostly with multiple pictorial units, elaborate and high embellished motifs and african traditonal codes like the "Nsibidi" sometimes amalgamating them with mystical and esoteric symbols all encoded in a picture."
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