So you fancy yourself a poet. You’ve written verse upon verse for adoring readers- specifically your romantic interests- who praise you for the “sweetness” of what you just did. What you just did is actually a grievious literary crime, punishable by angry stares from me in public. Here are 3 Read more…
A Twitter user has come under intense criticism for comparing an oil painting by the legendary Vincent Van Gogh with a similar one painted more recently by Chinese artist Haixia Liu. Comparing the famous 1888 “Café Terrace at night” by the Dutch great with Haixia’s artwork of the same scene, Read more…
The art world is a pretty wide one. It’s a world that gives solace and joy, a world that will make you think. Now, when people think art, they think artists – they think pencils and paints, and someone who can make a life sketch of them. It doesn’t work Read more…
One of the challenges – or maybe perks – of being a creative is the birth of ideas every single time. I say it’s a challenge because you’re expected to come up with something nobody else has come up with before. It’s a perk because it implies that your imagination Read more…
Art is a pretty universal area, and it’s so unpredictable. The truth is – that’s what makes it so beautiful. Just like how artists express their feelings and thoughts through the use of paint, pencil or pen, people also interpret art in different ways. For every piece of art, there Read more…
FNB Art Joburg 4-6 SEPTEMBER 2020 SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE, 161 MAUDE STREET, SANDOWN SANDTON 2196, SOUTH AFRICA FNB Art Joburg is an established contemporary art fair which supports and promotes Local as well International African galleries. The fair has had over 12 successful editions since its debut. The fair which Read more…
Art X Lagos 6-8 NOVEMBER 2020 THE FEDERAL PALACE, 6-8 AHMADU BELLO WAY, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS. Art X Lagos is an international art fair, with over 30,000 visitors including a host of local patrons, international collectors, curators and critics who come to view the best and most innovative contemporary and Read more…
When people think of arts, they imagine the artists and sculptors. Sometimes they include the photographers and writers and poet. But there is another kind of art that Blessing Akinsunmade engages in. It is the creating of fashion accessories and stationery with African prints. Some of her works include earrings, Read more…
From a tender age, Atinuke Awotedu has always had a passion for drawing. Like most other children, that passion was shelved for a shot at formal education. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, Nigeria. However, she recovered her love for Read more…
Samuel Olowomeye Adeola is a 28-year-old visionary that uses his art to tell the truth, expose the hypocrisies, ironies, chaos and imbalance of the human condition and society at large through details that might have been neglected ordinarily as he also tries to touch as many souls as possible. He Read more…
