The “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” (1943) is the only painting created by Sir Winston Churchill during the Second World War. The artwork is famously tagged as the most important painting by Churchill. It features a mosque in Marrakech in broad daylight, with mountains in the background. According to Nicholas Read more…
Lagos, Nigeria. A Duo Exhibition of Contemporary African art is scheduled to hold at Affinity Art Gallery, a Lagos-based gallery that prides itself on its hosting of some of the finest contemporary and modern art and artists in Nigeria. In a press release received by L’AVIS, the gallery confirmed the Read more…
Water represents so many things. It is the beginning and everything else in between. There are talks about how people are submerged and baptized underwater. So, in a way – water is a birth and a rebirth. It is a mixture of two different worlds. It will welcome you on Read more…
Love is great and wonderful… But, it can also be a pain – especially when you have no clue what you are doing. Frequent book reading for recreational purpose remains advantageous even after a long period.. However, like all good things, there is usually a side effect that follows from doing too much of it. In this Read more…
5 Things You Can Do To Distract Yourself from Couples Celebrating Valentine’s (BY AMINAH OYESANMI) If you have been wondering how to distract yourself from the noise and fuss by couples celebrating Valentines, then trust me – you’re not the only one. I also happen to be – like what is so Read more…
Kamala Harris, the woman of the moment, showed the world that she has a flair for making history when she became the first woman, the first Black, and the first Asian American to serve as Vice President of America. Now, she has added another monument in history – an artistic Read more…
Even after 5 centuries, the Mona Lisa is still turning up new reasons to be wowed by it. A study has revealed that Leonardo da Vinci actually had drawn an earlier “backbone” drawing on to the canvas of the famous piece. According to research published by French engineer Pascal Cotte Read more…
AUTHOR: ADESUWA OJO Before now, I had never understood the fuss about The Mona Lisa. To me, it was just a paintingof a woman and by my mere eyes, I believed I had seen more realistic and elegant paintings ofwomen, but on closer inspection, I can say, it is totally Read more…
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the most widely known painting in the world, and somewhere in the back of our collective minds we all know it must hold the highest price tag for a piece of art. You can imagine my surprise to not find it listed on Wikipedia’s Read more…
Authors: Ibraheem Okunade and Victoria Toluwalase It is hard to imagine the Osun Sacred Grove without its array of sculptures depicting various Yoruba gods and way of life (and, of course, the monkeys). Most of these sculptures would merely be a mirage without the input of Susanne Wenger. Long before Read more…
