tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8862299772512150802024-03-14T01:57:41.665-07:00Bruce Onobrakpeya FoundationModern and Contemporary African artBruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-3237285500306477232024-01-07T21:20:00.000-08:002024-01-07T21:33:13.184-08:00A Prayer for Settlement<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.mutualart.com/Images//2011_02/04/0012/1126438/129412082898109637_015d7c5a-ae54-4edc-a866-fbd9b5d6f493_329879.Jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="201" height="600" src="https://media.mutualart.com/Images//2011_02/04/0012/1126438/129412082898109637_015d7c5a-ae54-4edc-a866-fbd9b5d6f493_329879.Jpeg" width="201" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Prayer<br /></span></b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">May the Divine guide travelers on unknown paths and grant them peaceful settlement<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>A daily walk with Bruce Onobrakpeya: Day 8 </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even in times of forced change and uncertainty, we are never alone. The
strength and wisdom of our ancestors and the enduring stability of
nature guide and protect us. This connection offers hope and resilience,
reminding us that in the transient journey of life, we carry forward
the legacy of the past and the promise of safe passage, regardless of
the challenges we face."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc" style="color: #cc0000;">Picture Credit: Onobrakpeya</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Travelers shows . </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the image of people on the move, carrying their essential belongings on
their heads and shoulders, powerfully symbolizing the reality of forced
migration, a global issue affecting millions. It evokes the struggle of
leaving familiar environments, where generations have lived, due to
unforeseen circumstances, be they natural disasters or human conflicts.
This scene is not only a stark reminder of the transience and
uncertainty of life but also serves as a poignant prayer for protection
and safety over all those compelled to undertake such journeys. It
underscores the profound truth that stability can be fleeting, and
today's settled individuals might find themselves as travelers tomorrow.
This visual and narrative representation captures the essence of
vulnerability, resilience, and the unceasing hope for a safer future
amidst the trials of forced displacement.</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></span></p>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-38857160847100415182024-01-05T21:14:00.000-08:002024-01-05T21:34:47.538-08:00May the True Gains of our Work Never be dispersed<p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://media.mutualart.com/Images//2022_08/07/11/112322242/bruce-onobrakpeya-atete-gwre-ighoro-o--v-NEKSC.Jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="584" height="800" src="https://media.mutualart.com/Images//2022_08/07/11/112322242/bruce-onobrakpeya-atete-gwre-ighoro-o--v-NEKSC.Jpeg" width="584" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Nigerian Proverb (Urhobo)<br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Atete Gwre Ighoro-o<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>A daily walk with Bruce Onobrakpeya: Day 6 <br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This expression which roughly translates to "May the Hawking tray always return with its
owner at the end of the day" can be understood as a prayer or a wish for
both success and safety. The "Hawking tray" in this context symbolizes
the means or tools one uses to earn a living, akin to a hawker's tray
full of goods for sale. The phrase "always return with its owner"
underscores the dual hope that the individual not only achieves success
(represented by the tray being full of the day's profits and gains) but
also returns safely home at the end of the day. This proverb, therefore,
encompasses a comprehensive blessing – that one's daily efforts lead to
fruitful gains and that these are safely brought back home, ensuring
both economic well-being and personal safety. On a reflective note the expression may also be an invocation and prayer to God, for the Gift of a life well spent, crowned with attributes like Wealth, Peace of mind, Prosperity and a Great legacy in life<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc" style="color: #cc0000;">Picture Credit: Onobrakpeya</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">. <span style="color: #cc0000;">In</span> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Atete Gwre Ighoro-o, Onobrakpeya depicts two poles supporting a third
bar to form an entrance gate to a village.
Suspended from the cross-bar is the "Atete" (straw-tray) which
contains prayers and blessings tied to its middle.</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"> </span></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-19719966932602103382024-01-03T13:28:00.000-08:002024-01-05T20:42:38.309-08:00The Leopard In a random walk in the Cornfield<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1200,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/smocontemporaryart/images/view/583b31287326d8e5e5d59f2c8c678218j/smocontemporaryart-bruce-onobrakpeya-leopard-i-the-confield-series-2015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="800" height="369" src="https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_1200,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/artlogicstorage/smocontemporaryart/images/view/583b31287326d8e5e5d59f2c8c678218j/smocontemporaryart-bruce-onobrakpeya-leopard-i-the-confield-series-2015.jpg" width="641" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Nigerian Proverb in Pidgin English<br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">One Man meat, na another Person Poison<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>A daily walk with Bruce Onobrakpeya: Day 4 </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Though the forest might seem daunting and mysterious to many, it's a
sanctuary to the leopard. This metaphor underlines the profound truth
that what may be challenging and unfamiliar to some can be a haven of
comfort and familiarity to others. It highlights the rich tapestry of
diverse experiences and viewpoints that different individuals or groups
possess. Furthermore, it serves as a call for unity, inviting people
from all walks of life to embrace and learn from each other's unique
perspectives."<span> <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Picture Credit: Leopard In the Cornfield by Bruce Onobrakpeya, 1966 </i></span><br /> </b></p>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-40384460086076489852023-10-17T11:50:00.005-07:002023-10-17T18:50:03.480-07:00MUSON FESTIVAL EXHIBITION<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="462" src="https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2011_02/09/0015/1129398/129414649700746149_b441462d-03b9-476d-a873-fbcf77c93642_332547.Jpeg?w=768" title="Images Plastograh by Onobrakpeya 1990" /></div><span style="color: #0c343d;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The
highly anticipated Muson Festival is set to captivate art enthusiasts
from October 22nd to 29th, offering a breathtaking showcase of artistic
brilliance. This year's festival promises to be nothing short of
extraordinary, featuring a remarkable collection of works by the
celebrated Bruce Onobrakpeya, spanning various forms of media. </span></span><p></p><div class="ii gt" id=":od"><div class="a3s aiL" id=":oc"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Among
the highlights of this artistic extravaganza are the enchanting lyrical
prints by the avant-garde artist, Folahan Olumide. These pieces promise
to challenge conventional artistic boundaries and inspire creativity.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">Moreover,
the festival embraces the theme of "Resilience" with a curated
selection of traditional art pieces. These works will reflect the
enduring spirit of artists throughout history, embodying their ability
to overcome adversity and emerge stronger, more vibrant, and creatively
invigorated.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">In total,
the Muson Festival will proudly display around 30 exquisite pieces, each
a testament to the power of art to inspire, provoke thought, and
transcend barriers. Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in a
world of artistic wonder and celebrate the enduring legacy of these
remarkable artists. Join us from October 22nd to 29th for an
unforgettable journey into the heart of creativity and resilience.</span></div></div><div class="adL">
</div></div></div><div class="ajx"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table class="cf wS" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="amq"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></td><td class="amr"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-27021365403624815952023-09-13T04:04:00.000-07:002023-09-13T04:10:28.788-07:00THE MASK AND THE CROSS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://highmuseum-redesign.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/XLBO-060-Onobrakpeya-crp1-1024x721.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="800" height="563" src="https://highmuseum-redesign.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/XLBO-060-Onobrakpeya-crp1-1024x721.jpg" width="800" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: medium;">"The Mask and the Cross" are artworks
created by Bruce Onobrakpeya, set in the final days of colonial Nigeria
and shortly after its independence. These works offer a unique African
perspective, delving into the underlying teachings, principles, and
lessons derived from the life of Christ and the Resurrection of Christ.</span><p></p><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
artist refers to these pieces as "New Masks" because they represent his
endeavor to reconstruct and re-imagine artworks using ideas from old
masks, many of which were discarded and burnt by early Christian
missionaries. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Masks by Onobrakpeya retain
the aesthetic potency of the original masks, now manifested in various
media such as paintings, plastocasts, low relief sculptures, and other
techniques that he has developed and innovated throughout his nearly
65-year artistic career.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
artworks are infused with the same esoteric meanings, conveying a
narrative that transcends geographical and chronological boundaries,
making them accessible to people of any culture. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The Mask and the Cross" serve as narratives that reinterpret the universal
essence of goodness by focusing on the core values that should foster a
deeper understanding of the Christian message. In these artworks, Jesus
Christ and other religious figures are depicted as universal symbols,
emphasizing the essence of Christianity rather than being bound by the
geographical and anatomical contexts of the Jewish and Roman people.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">2nd June 2023</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://artnewsafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2006.228.12-BOnobrakpey-crpd_o2-1024x441-1-jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="800" height="345" src="https://artnewsafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2006.228.12-BOnobrakpey-crpd_o2-1024x441-1-jpg.webp" width="800" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>POSTSCRIPT</b> <br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Solo exhibition by Onobrakpeya which was extremely well received at
the prestigious High Museum in Atlanta, came to a close, at the end of
July. "The Mask and the Cross" is now billed to travel to The
Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., in the second quarter of 2024 and
the National Museum of Montreal, Canada and Vatican Museum shortly after.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">3rd Sept 2023</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mudiare Onobrakpeya</span></div></div>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-47211370384006951202019-12-18T00:40:00.000-08:002019-12-18T00:40:06.618-08:00Seasonal Greetings<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-23165159329571929892019-11-10T14:26:00.000-08:002019-11-10T23:29:41.377-08:00Tribute to Frank Chukwuma Okonta by Onobrakpeya<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">I visited Chief Frank Chukwuma Okonta in his country home in Ibusa, Delta State a few years ago with Kunle Adeyemi, during one of the editions of the Harmattan workshop. I was immediately struck by the serenity of his home where he demonstrated his love for nature through his garden and palatial space, he also had quite a collection of art which he fondly displayed hanging on many walls of his home. Chief Okonta came across as an endearing gentleman with a lot of warmth in his heart. He spoke flawless Hausa, had gone to school in the north and now lived in Lagos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Okonta was a seasoned administrator given his background as a past director in the Ministry of Information, Secretary General of the Nigerian Olympic Committee, chairman Nigerian Boxing Committee and President of Nigerian Cycling Association. He clearly was a gentleman that understood the inner workings of the Nigerian government, based on his varied and accumulated experience in government service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Over time he also collected art wherever he travelled to, all over Nigeria and very widely abroad. This collection crystallized in his founding the Nkem gallery, where his collection could be viewed. He also became like Gbadamosi and Olagbaju, a great admirer of Nigerian art, and often could be seen encouraging budding and mature artists by attending and visiting exhibitions and shows very frequently. Okonta visited my show <i>Onobrakpeya and the Harmattan Experiment</i>, at Kadjinol station during Dakar 2012 Biennale in Senegal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">But by far his greatest and most significant achievement will be helping to found and later becoming the pioneer President of the Art galleries Association on Nigeria (AGAN). AGAN was the umbrella organization for gallery owners all over the country. AGAN also has to its credit staging the historic art Expo which brought together in an Art fair setting many galleries in Nigeria and West Africa to Lagos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">His legacy will have to be helping to raise awareness of the generality of people about the greatness of Nigerian art, through first his acquisition of a personal collection of art, then owning and operating the Nkem gallery in Lagos, and later organizing the epoch making Art Expo, which was a historic and cultural landmark event, Art Expo brought several galleries together to celebrate Nigerian art and once again reestablish Lagos as a notable art epicenter in West Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">Frank Okonta loved great traditional and modern music, and in fact was also an avid fan of Fela, he also loved fine dinning and great gourmet, and civil community and society, but above all he was a connoisseur of Nigerian modern art, who had passion to showcase the magic of Nigerian art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.4667px;">He will be greatly missed by the creative industry where he laboured greatly to show our, elegance and nobility as a people through the fine arts.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chairman’s Opening Speech</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Commissioning of the
Art Exhibition in honour of Late Prof Stella Idiong</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">University of Uyo</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is an
honour and privilege to be the Chairman at the commissioning of an art gallery
and a commemorative exhibition in honour of late Prof. Stella Idiong here in
the University of Uyo. I am particularly happy to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be part of the process of immortalizing
Stella Idiong because she was one of our very own. As an alumnus of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Harmattan Workshop, an informal
educational forum, which I founded in Agbarha Otor,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delta State, her participation and creative innovations
in printmaking during several workshops she had attended, have been of great
inspiration to us. Indeed this connection opened the way for my many visits to
Uyo, and my claim as a son of Akwa Ibom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Stella
Idiong was a great teacher with vision, she commissioned an etching Press to be
built in Lagos for Printmaking here in Uniuyo Art Department. She knew the
important role that art galleries play in the education of the artists, and
actually established the first gallery of Art in the University art department,
where she encouraged art exhibitions.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With the
commemorative Exhibition “Artforms” the function of an art gallery in a
University has started to be made manifest. We can see and appreciate beautiful
artworks which are not inhibited<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
pressures of commercial art that Prof. Idiong, art works and those of faculty
members and students<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are now been
showcased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Idiong’s art particularly the prints are timeless.
Equally great<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are pieces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by A. John Sampson, Dr. Anselem Nyah, Dr. Okonofua
who I already know from their participation in the Harmattan workshops. Works
of other members of the faculty<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>include
Efiong Asukwo, Eyefiokio, Dr. Emoidem Udoh, Udom Bassey, Utom Obong – Ajuzie,
J. Akim, Itoro Ekong and Ibrahim Bai are also<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The students
works show great promise. I urge them to take art as a journey of discovery,
adopt mentors and patrons and by so doing not even the sky will be their limit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unuiyo
should be proud to be one of the very few Universities in Nigeria, to establish
their own art gallery. I hope in the future, this gallery which is being commissioned
today will be a full fledged department with its own director.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">University
art galleries own collections which along with changing exhibitions attract
visitors from outside<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the university
community, thereby promoting the idea of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>” the town meeting the gown” To this effect I hereby donate my artwork
titled Thanksgiving to the Stella Idiong<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Art Gallery. This is in thanks to God for her life and her contributions
to humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally we
are grateful to the family of late Prince Sampson Idiong and Late Princess
(Professor) Stella O. Bernard Idiong for the magnanimous gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We pray that
the legacy of Stella idiong, art teacher, Lecturer, Educationist and a distinguished
fine artist, may last forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bruce
Onobrakpeya NNOM</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">29<sup>th</sup>
January 2018 </span></div>
Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-70091982676073900022017-12-07T06:14:00.001-08:002017-12-12T23:28:03.788-08:00NIGERIAN NATIONAL MERIT AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">NIGERIAN NATIONAL
MERIT AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">BY</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA ASO
ROCK ( PRESIDENTIAL VILLA ABUJA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">)
</span>7/12/2017</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt;">NNOM ACCEPTANCE
SPEECH BY BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
thank Your Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, for awarding me the Nigerian National Order of Merit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is a great honour and a very high point in my career as an artist. This
recognition will enhance the role of the arts in the development of our nation.
It will also inspire other artists to create great art works that will do the
country proud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Going
back two thousand years, Nigeria had created the timeless Nok Terra Cotta sculptures.
These were followed by Ife, Benin, Igbo Ukwu, Esie, and other classical arts. Indeed,
Nigeria was first introduced to the outside world through these art pieces.
Then came the colonial era when indigenous artworks lost their significance. We
are fortunately, now at a period of artistic renaissance. I use the opportunity
provided by this award to ask Mr. President to help accelerate this upward
swing. First we ask for the ratification of our cultural policy to empower the
artists. We need good working spaces in terms of studios and artists’ villages.
The artists will be happy to receive abandoned structures in Lagos, Abuja, and
other parts of the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We urgently
need infrastructure and set-ups for modern art museums and galleries where we
can showcase our best pieces as well as prevent their loss to foreign
collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Art
museums and galleries are self-sustaining and our tourism will benefit very
much from them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
addition to what will make artistic production strong and add to national economic
and social benefits, we request that our President put aside some funds for
informal art education through workshops. The annual Harmattan Workshop which I
started at Agbarha- Otor in Delta State about twenty years ago brings in young
professional artists from across the country for hands-on workshops directed by
experienced artists. Such workshops empower Nigerians to live on the artworks
they create; they help to develop the areas they are situated in and bring
friendship and peace among different ethnic groups who participate in them. The
Federal Government should encourage individuals and corporations such as the
NLNG to establish prizes for artists to spur young and experienced ones to
reach greater heights.</span></div>
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more I thank Mr. President for the award which I promise to hold in trust for
fellow artists, other individuals, groups and establishments, all of whom have
worked very hard to elevate our art to have global recognition and sharpen the
consciousness of fellow Nigerians to be proud of our culture.</span></div>
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Onobrakpeya wins Nigeria’s</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"> Ultimate Medal</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Sunny
Awhefeada</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Nigerian National
Order of Merit (NNOM) was instituted in 1979 to reward cerebral achievement. It
was at inception known as the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA). Although
the nomenclature has changed, the significance and prestige of the award
remains unassailable. The biodata on the back cover of Chinua Achebe’s <i>The Trouble with Nigeria</i> describes the
award as Nigeria’s “highest accolade for intellectual achievement”. The prize
has remained so. Achebe was the first winner in 1979 and many other
distinguished Nigerian intellectuals had gone on to win it. A roll call of the
winners whether they are from the Humanities or the Sciences points to the
reality that it is actually bestowed on Nigeria’s best. And it must be admitted
that Nigeria’s best is the world’s best irrespective of the cog in the wheel of
our national development and by extension our hobbled education system. Thus
the NNMA, even though it is a national award, could be compared to the Nobel
Prize superintended by the Swedish academy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Some Nigerians are as
title crazy as Governor Okorocha of Imo State is driven crazy by his vision!
There are many contrived awards in Nigeria! From the one bestowed by the
president on himself and friends in the name of national honours to the ones
thrown around by tertiary institutions and shadowy organizations to whoever
could pay, Nigeria brims with awards. Yet, I dare say that the only one with unimpeachable
integrity is the NNOM! It is awarded annually and this year’s winner is the
master artist Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya! All the winners from Achebe to
Onobrakpeya will top any master class of their discipline anywhere in the
world! In truth, whatever modicum of respect Nigeria has earned in the world
came through the remarkable achievements of her intellectuals. If the world
concedes some measure of respectability to Nigeria, it is because Achebe, Wole
Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, J.P. Clark,
Bruce Onobrakpeya and their ilk in other fields of knowledge are
Nigerians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">When words filtered in
that Onobrakpeya won this year’s NNOM many concluded that it was long overdue.
The Delta State University, Abraka, under the vice chancellorship of Professor
Victor Peretomode bestowed its highly regarded honourary doctorate on
Onobrakpeya in July this year. Instead of casting the doctorate at the highest
bidder, the university chose three worthy Nigerians, the Ohworode of Olomu, the
Asagba of Asaba and Onobrakpeya.. The DELSU honour and the NNOM reinforce and
justify each other. As university orator, the lot fell on me to do Onobrakpeya’s
citation. Part of it reads:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Bruce
Onobrakpeya is a living art avatar who shares the same hallowed platform with
Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo in the universal configuration of
artistic influence! He was in the vanguard of the “Zaria rebels” led by Uche
Okeke that championed the decolonisation of African visual arts by privileging
traditional influences in their practice. Much of the motif of Onobrakpeya’s
art is rooted in his Urhobo tradition as he gives visual representation to
ethno-philosophy, folklore, politics, environment, religion, modernity... While
Urhobo tradition provides his collage, the world remains his canvas.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">As
a master artist in a class of his own, it didn’t take long for Onobrakpeya’s
skilful hands to attract global attention. He became an Artist-in-Residence at
Haystack Mountain of Art and Craft in Maine in the United States of America in
1975. He has, since then, held some of the most prestigious Art Residencies and
professorships around the world, seven of which were in the United States. He
also enjoyed the same rare privilege at the Institute of African Studies,
University of Ibadan, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe which is one of the
world’s most notable arts galleries. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">In
the course of his enchanting career as an artist, Onobrakpeya has held more
than one hundred art exhibitions. The first of which took place in Ughelli in
1959. Since then his art works have been standing taller than any other at
exhibitions in Lagos, New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Washington,
Bologna, Nairobi, Illinois, Toronto, Bradford, Holland, Zurich, Bonn, Zimbabwe,
Abidjan, Dakar, Dubai, etc. I must not forget the one at the Vatican Museum in
Rome in 1977. I am sure Pope Paul VI must have told God about the marvel of
Onobrakpeya’s art. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">In
recognition of his sublime art, he has received over fifty awards, honours and
prizes from all over the world. He is a winner of the Pope Paul VI Gold Medal.
In 1989, the University of Ibadan, awarded him an honorary doctor of letters.
He was the second person after Chinua Achebe to win the Nigeria Creativity
Award in 2010. Many other prizes came from across the seas; USA, Britain,
France, Iraq, Czechoslovakia, etc. The Federal Government of Nigeria conferred
the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) on him in 2002. Very
significantly, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO) canonised him as a Living Human Treasure in 2006! Art
connoisseurs have long reached a consensus that had there been a Nobel Prize
for Visual Arts, Onobrakpeya would have long won it! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Today,
Onobrakpeya’s art works can be found in all the continents of the world.
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, Nobles, Commoners, all stand before his
works in adoration! Onobrakpeya’s astonishing portfolio of achievements is
reinforced by ibiebe an Urhobo alphabetic system he invented, fourteen
published monographs and fourteen illustrated books. The number of theses
written on his works by art cognoscenti is in the realm of the uncountable!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Before
us, today, is one of the most significant artists of global resonance for all
times. At eighty-five, Onobrakpeya is the youngest among today’s honourees, but
he is the oldest known practising artist in Africa now. Whatever he touches
becomes art. Art works immortalise the artist. So let it be with Owena Bruce
Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Awhefeada teaches
literature at the Delta State University, Abraka.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Birth </b><br />Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya the universally acclaimed master printmaker, painter, sculptor and poet was born at Agbarha-Otor on 30th August 1932. <br /><br /><b>Education </b><br />After attending elementary and secondary schools in Ughelli, Sapele and Benin from 1941 to 1951, he won a Federal Government Scholarship in 1957 to the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and <br />Technology, (now Ahmadu Bello University), Zaria where he studied and earned a Diploma in Fine Arts in 1962 and also a Postgraduate Arts Teacher's Certificate. <br /><br /><b>Career </b><br />He began his working career in 1953 as an Arts teacher at Western Boys' High School, Benin- City. He relocated to Ondo Boys' High School in 1957. He was from 1963 to 1980 the Arts teacher at St. Gregory's College, Obalende, Lagos. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Bruce Onobrakpeya is a living art avatar who shares the same hallowed platform with Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci and Michael Angelo in the universal configuration of artistic influence! He was in the vanguard of the "Zaria rebels" led by Uche Okeke that championed the decolonisation of African visual arts by privileging traditional influences in their practice. Much of the motif of Onobrakpeya's art is rooted in his Urhobo tradition as he gives visual representation to e t h n o-p h i l o s o p h y, folklore, politics, environment, religion, modernity and related themes. While Urhobo tradition provides his collage, the world remains his canvas. <br /><br />As a master artist in a class of his own, it didn't take long for Onobrakpeya's skilful hands to attract global attention. He became an Artist-in- Residence at Haystack Mountain of Art and Craft <br />in Maine in the United States of America in 1975. He has, since then, held some of the most prestigious Art Residencies and professorship around the world, seven of which were in the United States. He also enjoyed the same rare privilege at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, and the National Gallery of <br />Zimbabwe which is one of the world's most notable arts galleries. He has since 1998 organised and participated, annually, in the Harmattan Workshop for artists at Agbarha-Otor. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the course of his enchanting career as an artist, Onobrakpeya has held more than one hundred art exhibitions. The first of which took </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">place in Ughelli in 1959. Since then his art works have been standing taller than any other at exhibitions in Lagos, New York, London, Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Washington, Bologna, Nairobi, Illinois, Toronto, Bradford, Holland, Zurich, Bonn, Zimbabwe, Abidjan, Dakar, Dubai, etc. I must not forget the one at the Vatican Museum in Rome in 1977. I am sure Pope Paul VI must have told God about the marvel of Onobrakpeya's art. <br /><br /><b>Honours </b><br />In recognition of his sublime art, he has received over fifty awards, honours and prizes from all over the world. He is a winner of the Pope Paul VI Gold Medal. In 1989, the University of Ibadan, awarded him an honorary doctor of letters. He was the second person after Chinua Achebe to win the Nigeria Creativity Award in 2010. Many other prizes came from across the seas; USA, Britain, France, Iraq, Czechoslovakia, etc. The Federal Government of Nigeria conferred the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) on him in 2002. Very significantly, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) canonised him as a Living Human Treasure in 2006! Art connoisseurs have long reached a consensus that had there been a Nobel Prize for Visual Arts, Onobrakpeya would have long won it!Today, Onobrakpeya's art works can be found in all the continents of the world. Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, Nobles, Commoners, all stand before his works in adoration! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Onobrakpeya' s astonishing portfolio of achievements is reinforced by ibiebe an Urhobo alphabetic system he invented, fourteen published monographs and fourteen illustrated books. The number of theses written on his works by art cognoscenti is now in the realm of the uncountable! <br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before us today is one of the most significant artists of global resonance for all times. At eighty- five, Onobrakpeya is the youngest among today's honourees, but he is the oldest known practising artist in Africa now. Whatever he touches becomes art. Art works immortalise the artist. So let it be with Owena Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sunny Awhefeada, PhD </b><br />Public Orator, <br />Delta State University, Abraka. <br />22nd July, 2017 </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bruce Onobrakpeya, a force in the Nigerian contemporary art movement, was born in 1932 in Agbarha-Otor, Delta State, Nigeria to an Urhobo carver. Onobrakpeya’s family moved to Benin City where he attended Western Boys’ High School and was introduced to art by teacher Edward Ivehivboje and by drawing classes at the British Council Art Club. Upon graduation, Onobrakpeya taught art at the Western Boys’ High School and the Ondo Boys High School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1957, Onobrakpeya was granted a Federal Government Scholarship to attend the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, now the Ahmadu Bello University, where he studied fine arts and arts education. While a student, the Zaria Arts Society, later called the Zaria Rebels, was formed with the aim to “decolonize” the visual arts as taught by Europeans. Onobrakpeya states that while college taught him technical skills, the Zaria Arts Society taught him confidence in his ability to form a personal style.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Throughout the 1960s Onobrakpeya participated in artist workshops and apprenticed with sculptor Ben Enwonwu. In 1964 he became a founding member of the Society of Nigerian Artists. From the 1970s until the 1990s, Onobrakpeya was an artist-in-residence and professor at numerous institutions in the United States, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much of Onobrakpeya’s work comprises stylistic elements and compositions rooted in traditional African sculpture and decorative arts. Onobrakpeya has no definitive style but instead specific periods of work that differ in content and media. His works range from lino cut prints, bronze, paintings, drawings and installations. The themes found in his works include folklore, Zarian landscape, Christianity, the Benin Kingdom, environmental degradation, politics, tradition, philosophy and social unrest. A testament to his skill and creativity as an artist, Onobrakpeya innovated several unique printmaking and relief sculpture techniques such as bronzed lino relief, plastocast relief, plastograph, additive plastograph, metal foil deep etching, metal foil relief print and ivorex. Furthermore, Onobrakpeya innovated and uses Ibiebe, a writing style that features invented script of ideographic geometric and curvilinear glyphs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Onobrakpeya has taught and exhibited in the United States, Italy, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, Kenya and Germany. In 1999 he founded the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation which organizes the annual Harmattan Workshop Series in Agbarha-Otor, encourages creative interaction among artists and scholars and aims to increase public awareness of African art. His work is held by various collections and he is the recipient of many honors.Onobrakpeya lives and works in Nigeria.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an experimental artist he was lucky to have had an early breakthrough, through the innovation of plastography in 1967. He is also a founding member of the Zaria Art School. His exhibitions have contributed to a large body of literature which not only placed him as a contemporary and modern artist, but also created an artistic continuum for Nigerian art after Nok, Benin, Ife and Igbo Ukwu legacies. He has exhibited at the Vatican, the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian institution in Washington D.C., U.S.A, and London Museum to mention a few places</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an installation artist, he has pioneered, developed and emphasized installations as an art form, since the early 1990s. His inspiration has been drawn largely from the example of traditional African shrines. Another inspiration for his installation art is the availability of numerous discarded objects, particularly those from used computers and the automobile industry. A good example of his installation is a work titled Akporode which was shown in 2002, at U.C.L.A. Fowler Museum. This piece is now on permanent display at the Onobrak Museum in Agbarha-Otor, Delta State.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We at BOF Salute and Celebrate our avatar Bruce Onobrakpeya for bringing an elevated consciousness of our immeasurable valuable asset of Culture. As he is being honored on the 22nd of July 2017, with an honorary Doctor of Arts Award from the Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria, we wish him continued and enlightened Guidance as he journeys.</span>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-69822795455880745922017-06-10T03:54:00.000-07:002017-06-10T03:54:34.421-07:00Bruce Onobrakpeya and the Zaria Revolution<span class="_mh6 _wsc" id="cch_f2ea482df5a3c68"><span class="_3oh- _58nk"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriathelandofplenty.blogspot.com.ng%2F2017%2F05%2Fprof-bruce-onobrakpeya-and-zaria.html%3Fm%3D1&h=ATOlBA6uzQym8pvSgNFoIZCukQz-f38N4lyyq2PEE0038a6SzOfgvcd7Wy5Z9IaV1J9vZVEamkqGXY2vv8A_cBlJHZeMxzo9Pa8tBuBY2t81zOSaR6QE_Bi4bkUhdmHspLS5k1Xb1g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://nigeriathelandofplenty.blogspot.com.ng/2017/05/prof-bruce-onobrakpeya-and-zaria.html?m=1</a></span></span>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-27184481091370147472016-11-24T23:40:00.001-08:002018-03-04T00:01:32.302-08:00TRIBUTE TO RASHEED GBADAMOSI BY ONOBRAKPEYA<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">The death of
Rasheed Gbadamosi came as a shock to me and to artists and art lovers for whom
he had been a great patron. His passing is even more painful when we realize
that another patron <a href="https://mudiare.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/tribute-to-sammy-olagbaju/">Sam Olagbaju</a> was laid to rest a few weeks back.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">Rasheed did
not only empower artists to grow through the purchase of their artworks, he also
built the Grillo Art Pavilion in Ikorodu, near Lagos, in which works of pioneer artists
including those of the Zaria Art Society were given annual exposure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 115%;">Rasheed will
be greatly missed and we pray that his Legacy will last forever and immortalize
his name. I wish him a peaceful rest in the bosom of the Lord. Amen</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">November 24,
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Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-64531274360499945242016-09-20T02:49:00.002-07:002016-09-20T02:49:54.062-07:00Exhibition Invitation : Onobrakpeya and the Harmattan Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-70077331471250256472016-09-20T01:50:00.001-07:002016-09-20T01:51:12.955-07:00EXHIBITION OF ART WORKS GRANGE SCHOOL WITH ONOBRAKPEYA<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">GRANGE
SCHOOL PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 150%;">VICTORIA
ISLAND, LAGOS.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Eminent ladies, gentlemen and students I am
grateful to the Grange School authority for nominating me as their Artist In
Residence for the year 2016. This year’s
programme is a joint training in printmaking between the famous school at Ikeja
and Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation (BOF) Harmattan Workshop Series in Agbarha –
Otor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I praise the Grange School for creating the
forum where art practioners interact with their students every year. I have
been involved through the Harmattan Workshop with this type of training for
many years and as such, I consider the partnership as a very healthy and
profitable trend in our educational system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I commend very highly the performance of the
selected students in the project. They
were excited and very involved in the different processes of creating and
drawing out multiple art works from the templates. I am sure that by now, they recognize that
printmaking is both artistic and scientific and that it also lends itself to
experimentation which is at the root of modern developments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">I thank the Grange School art teachers and
other workers for all that they have done to make the workshop a huge success.
Here I must mention Mr. Onajobi Olumide the Head of the art department . My thanks go to the team from the Harmattan
Workshop – Mrs. Juliet Maja-Pearce, Ojo Olaniyi and Dele Oluseye, who are the
facilitators or instructors also to our two co-ordinators, Bode Olaniran and
Moses Unokwah. I thank Udeme Nyong for
the secretarial works and other assistants for fabricating some of the
materials and assembling both tools and equipment necessary for the workshop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally, I like to appeal to individuals and
cooperate groups to help us with funds that will enable us continue the
interactive and instructive programmes
of the Harmattan Workshop Series which have in the past benefited both young
and old. Thank you</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Chairman
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">June
19, 2016.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">FELIX OVUODORAYE IBRU
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">TRIBUTE TO A WORTHY
LIFE</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">BY BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Felix
Ibru was an enigma and proud son of Urhoboland, from Agbarha- Otor, who gave to
his people recognition and identity where ever he went, he also bore the torch
and fervour of nationalism after the footsteps of Mukoro Mowoe, the first
president of the UPU (Urhobo Progressive Union).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">He
employed his wisdom and indefatigable energy in the various capacities he found
himself, to continue to serve Urhobo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">l</span>and and the rest of Nigeria to his very last
days. His was a worthy life of integrity and sevice in Leadership, and passion
for the arts. <br />
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FELIX OVUODORAYE IBRU made a substantial contribution to what has now emerged as the Ibru dynasty. He was also successful architect, a former governor of the Delta State of Nigeria and a former<br />
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<br />
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He was first introduced to the Nigerian public as a promising young architect in the sixties when a dome, he innovated as a post graduate student in Israel was exhibited and later
became a model for smaller wooden buildings, which dotted the landscape of Lagos and other places. Among his other architectural innovation is the little but<br />
very noticeable house dabbed as “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uwenvwi
RoWovo</i>”<br />
(the house with one leg), that he designed for his father Epete Ibru in Agbarha - Otor. Chief Ibru was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also involved in the design and supervision of
more than 40 projects across the country. These included, University of Lagos
Sports Centre, Sheraton Lagos Hotel & Towers, Ikeja, the Sports centre, and
the Faculty of Science buildings, also in the University of Benin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Felix’s
success as an architect coupled with the reputation of the Ibru family,
emboldened him to venture into politics where he rose to become the first
governor of the newly created Delta State of Nigeria.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As
his first appointed Chairman of the State Arts Council, I was aware of his
noble plans to develop extensively the arts of the region, but his tenure was cut
short like those of other civilian governors who were serving under the
military regime of Gen. Abacha. In later years, he showed his love and devotion
to the arts, by becoming a frequent visitor to the Niger Delta Centre for Arts
and Culture, located in Agbarha-Otor. On such trips, he was extremely supportive,
as a friend of the workshop, and encouraged artists who had come from far and
near, in their search not only for empowerment through the arts, but also for
their search for creativity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">From
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2007 – 2010, as President General of the
Urhobo Progressive Union, his exemplary leadership, will be remembered, because
he set a vision for greater Unity in Urhoboland to meet her current challenges
and foster the way forward.<br />
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His Excellency Governor Felix Ovuodoraye Ibru lived a greatly accomplished and
fulfilled life. He was also gentle and kind, and a dearly beloved family man. We
thank God because he had “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ufuoma,
Omakpokpo, Otovwe and Idolo</i>” (Peace, Health, Long Life and Wealth). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">As an icon, he will
be greatly missed by many including myself, because of his life of selflessness,
integrity and service in leadership, and finally for hispassion for the arts in
general. May his worthy legacy last forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">
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Bruce Onobrakpeya</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">UNESCO Human Living Treasure<br />
Agbarha-Otor<br />
7th April 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">spanning <i>40 years!</i> of artistic experimentation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Come and see his new </span><i style="font-size: medium;">Aba Na Nya</i><span style="font-size: small;"> series, amazing line drawings, and feast your eyes on </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Join us for mulled wine and gourmet bites on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_993548471" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday, December 12th</span></span> from 2-5pm</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">as we </span><span style="font-size: small;">enjoy the festive season in the company of our <i>Master Artist</i>!</span></div>
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<i style="font-size: medium;">RSVP essential</i><span style="font-size: small;"> at <a href="mailto:info@temple-muse.com" target="_blank">info@temple-muse.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Professor Bruce Onobrakpeya</span></b><span>, celebrated
as one of Nigeria’s greatest experimental artists, is presenting a magnificent
body of work for the <i>Temple Muse
Christmas Art Salon</i> including metal foils, prints, plastocasts, as well as his
new <i>Aba Na Nya</i> series on canvas. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: small;">Onobrakpeya has received many local and international awards
including receiving an <i>Honorable Mention</i>
at the Venice Biennale, and a <i>Living
Human Treasure Award</i> in 2006 from UNESCO. He is one of Nigeria’s famous
pioneer <i>Zaria Rebels</i>, an art movement
he started together with Prof. Uche Okeke, Yusuf Grillo, Demas Nwoko and other
students at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria in the 1950’s. Since his student days, Onobrakpeya and his
group have revolutionized our art by drawing attention to our old </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">and timeless African values while appreciating global best-practices and universal human values.</span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: small;">Despite being in his 80’s, Onobrakpeya
continues to amaze his audience with new innovations and experiments; his new <i>Aba
Na Nya</i> works, which symbolize change in society, are a series of individual
mask like faces created from engravings and multi-media collages with pieces of
cloth which are photographed using a new <i>xerograph
technique</i>. Onobrakpeya has created close to 50 such works with a vision to
create a major installation of 100 faces, each representing a unique story of
change within society.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-size: small;">The exhibition is also made up of exceptional
metal foils and prints reflecting over 40 years of his outstanding career. His deep
etchings and plastocasts which he is famous for, draw deeply on the culture and
language of Nigeria and his response to years of socio-political change. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Onobrakpeya is truly a Nigerian living
legend, worthy of celebration!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Exhibition</span></b><span> runs from December 12th, 2015 <sup> </sup>to January 23rd, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Opening</span></b><span>: December 12<sup>th</sup>, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span>Artist Talk</span></b><span>: January 16<sup>th</sup>, 2016,
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<i><span><span style="font-size: small;">Exhibition Curated by Sandra Mbanefo Obiago</span></span></i>Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-91686071637320687482015-09-12T22:24:00.000-07:002015-09-12T22:24:22.668-07:00Sambisa Forest Installation and letter to the Chibok girls by Bruce Onobrakpeya.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CVL
TO HONOUR QUINTESSENTIAL PRINTMAKER, DR BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA @ 83 AND FOREMOST
DRAMATIST, MR. FRED AGBEYEGBE @ 80.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Centre for Values
in Leadership (CVL) under its Leader Without Title [LWT] monthly Colloquium will
on Thursday, 27<sup>th</sup> of August 2015 hold a Tribute Colloquium in honour
of Dr Bruce Onobrakpeya and Mr. Fred Agbeyegbe to commemorate their 83<sup>rd</sup>
and 80<sup>th</sup> birthdays respectively. The Event will take place at CVL
Building, 6 Balarabe Musa Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos from 2pm -6pm. The
event is to honour the two art icons for their contributions to the development
of Art in Nigeria. Dr. Onobrakpeya is Africa’s most important printmaker and Mr
Agbeyegbe is a foremost dramatist in Nigeria. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ahead of the Colloquium, a one week
exhibition of the best of Dr. Onobrakpeya’s artworks and paintings will be open
to the public from the 20<sup>th</sup> – 27<sup>th</sup> of August from 9am –
5pm at CVL Building. Works consisting of metal foil pieces, prints, serigraphs,
plastocasts, sculptures and paintings dating back to over 5 decades of his
career would be showcased in the week-long exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The theme of the colloquium is: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Art As Bandage</b> and the panel of
discussants include:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>Prince
Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon (Founder, <i><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">OYASAF</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif";">)</span></i><span class="st"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span><span class="style9">Mr. Kolade
Oshinowo (</span><span class="st">Veteran Artist, Master Painter and Portraitist)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Mrs. Nike Davies Okundaye (Founder, Nike
Art Gallery)</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span>Mrs.
Bolanle Austen-Peters (Founder/CEO, Terra Kulture)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and Mrs. </span>Melinda Akinlami (<b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Senior Presenter & Producer,
Art House,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif";">
</span></b>Channels Television). Prof Pat Utomi, the Founder of CVL will
moderate the Colloquium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the 24<sup>th</sup> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leader Without Title Colloquium,</b> CVL
honoured Chief (Dr) Ernest Shonekan for his contribution to the growth of
Public-Private Partnership in Nigeria. The conclusion of the panel discussion
at the event agreed that for Nigeria to have a meaningful development, there is
urgent need for the public and private sectors as well as development partners in
the country to work together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Nirmala UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Other distinguished persons honoured in
the past under the LWT Colloquium are: Mr. Akintola Williams, Dr. Michael
Omolayole, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, Mr. Richard Kramer, Chief Ernest Shonekan, Chief
Chris Ogunbanjo, Prof. (Mrs.) Oyinade Elebute, Chief Folake Solanke, Elder
Felix Ohiwerei, Dr. Gamaliel Onosode, Chief Philip Asiodu, Chief Emeka Anyaoku,
Dr. Christopher Kolade, Prof Grace Alele-Williams, Mrs. Taiwo Ajai-Lycett,
Chief Festus Marinho, Dr. Thomas John, Prof Itse Sagay, Alhaji Rasak Akanni
Okoya, Pastor Shyngle Wigwe, Engr Vincent Maduka, Dr. Emmanuel Egbogah, , Chief
Arthur Mbanefo, Chief Michael Ade.Ojo, Otunba Michael Balogun, Dr. Pascal
Dozie, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and Mr. Martin Ikediashi. A post-humus LWT was also
organized in honour of late Prof Chinua Achebe. </span></div>
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Leader Without Title (LWT) Leadership Tribute Colloquium to honour outstanding
sector leaders for their special contributions in the sector where they worked.
The LWT programme is in keeping with CVL’s commitment to affect the generation
next to be leaders without care for title. It is an honour for people who are
70 years and above who have left a mark worth emulating.</span></div>
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Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-74894607414843061082015-06-23T06:54:00.000-07:002015-06-23T06:56:06.438-07:00TRIBUTE TO PROF. OLUSEGUN ADEWOYE BY BRUCE ONOBRAKPEYA<div class="msg-body inner undoreset" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10288" role="presentation" tabindex="0">
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10393" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">TRIBUTE TO LATE PROFESSOR OLUSEGUN OYELEKE
ADEWOYE</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">On behalf of Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation (BOF) and participants of the
Harmattan Workshop Series, I write to extend our condolences for the sudden transition to glory of one of
our patrons, Professor Olusegun Oyeleke Adewoye.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10381" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">I met Professor Adewoye for the first time at
the Harmattan Workshop Art Gallery in Victoria Island, Lagos. The occasion was the opening of an art
exhibition of paintings by Mufu Onifade to which he was invited as the guest of
honour. That meeting brought us close,
and over the years I came to know him as a great art lover, art collector, art
patron, a scholar, a teacher, a builder of minds and an astute administrator.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10379" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Professor Adewoye visited my studio several
times to acquire art works for his collection which already included the
paintings of our great Ben Enwonwu . On one
of such visits, I took a chance and asked him to help with the sponsorship of
an edition of the Harmattan Workshop at Agbarha-otor Delta State. This he did as the Director General and Chief
Executive of NASENI (National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure), and we were able once more to
bring together artists, both experienced and beginners from Nigeria, West
Africa and abroad to learn skills and share ideas in the informal art education
set up. By that act, as a Professor of
materials science engineering he recognized the interrelationship between the
visual art and science as well as their synergy in industrial, economic and
social development of our dear nation. He
sets example which others have since followed.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10376" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">With his death, I hope that the plan to build
a befitting place for his art collection in Ilesha will still materialize.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10372" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">May his soul rest in the bosom of the Lord,
Amen.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10369" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Bruce Onobrakpeya </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Papa Ajao</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Lagos.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435070779402_10367" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">5th June 2015.</span></div>
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Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16425989476590114312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886229977251215080.post-34060156303736370212015-02-16T10:35:00.001-08:002015-02-16T10:35:21.536-08:00The Relevance of Art and Culture, Prospects in Schools and Society<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Relevance of Art and Culture, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prospects
in Schools and Society</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By Prof.
Bruce Onobrakpeya, MFR</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At
Lagoon School</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lekki,
Lagos.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I have to thank the management, teachers and
pupils of Lagoon School, Lekki, for honouring me with an invitation to come and
talk to the pupils on the subject of “The Relevance of Art and Culture in
schools and society”. In this regard, I will be speaking from the perspective
of the visual art, an area I have been practicing in for over six decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I’d like to inform you that coming here
evokes a nostalgic feeling of my beginning as art teacher, first at Western
Boys’ High School, Benin City, after then at Ondo Boys’ High School, Ondo and
finally at St. Gregory’s College, Lagos, where I spent 17 years before retiring
as a teacher. Beyond my career as a teacher, I still interact with pupils in
their scores whenever the annual Harmattan Workshop I organize holds and when
schools come with their pupils to visit me at work in my studio. One thing I
have come to realize as an art teacher is that every child is born with a
talent and has something to express and art is usually the primary medium
through which they express it. The beauty of children’s art is that their
simplicity, directness and innocence will make even great and experienced
masters want to be able to repeat those attributes in their art. This was the
case with me particularly in the 60s at St. Gregory’s when I sometimes copied
pieces of my students. A specific one I can recall was the drawing of a strange
animal which the student called a cow. Over the years I could not reconcile the
name to the image until I named the animal <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ubido,
</i>which is an Urhobo word for one of the animals in their folklore. I know
some of you here are naturally talented in art. My advice to you is that some
works of art produced by you now should be carefully kept and if you can,
glazed. You will be amazed at the beauty and freshness when several years later
you bring it out to view. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Art and culture can be described as two sides
of a coin. One is incomplete without the other. Art and culture are innate to
man. In other words, man did not have to go school to acquire the knowledge of
art and culture even though education in those subjects is very important. The
earliest men made drawings and images in one form or the other to communicate.
We have the cave drawings discovered in caves around the world and some of
these drawings scientists tell us are thousands of years old. Over the years,
man has developed what he probably acquired by instinct. And this is where
education is very important for it is through education that he can
scientifically develop what was a natural talent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The school environment helps the child to
recognize particular innate talents and teaches him or her skills to develop
them. So what is Art? One dictionary definition of art is “ human effort to
imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature”. Another
definition describes art as “ the conscious production or arrangement of
sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects
the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic
or plastic medium”. In the two definitions, the word Nature, Colours, Forms,
Movement and beauty should be borne in mind especially with regard to visual
art which is what we are concerned with. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Culture according to my dictionary's definition
is “the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or
nation”. It is also defined as the beliefs, values, behavior and material
objects that constitute a people’s way of life. From the definitions of Art and
Culture, you will notice that they both have been with us right from almost the
beginning of age when civilization started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In contemporary times, Art and Culture permeate
the entire spectrum of society. There is nothing you touch that does not imply
the prevailing culture of the place and that object touched has art as an
intrinsic part. As students, most of you have for example, a mobile phone. Mobile
phone ownership is almost the culture of all modern city dwellers for it is
something most people cannot do without.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Art comes into the equation when one considers that the phones which
come in various shapes were designed by artists at the stage before they were
manufactured Culture learning which truly begins with the mother tongue at home
and continued at school becomes easier as we apply the principle of moving from
the known to the unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art and
culture education at home and in school is to help us realize who we are as a
people thereby helping us fulfill not just cultural expectations but life
expectations as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">To drive the argument for the relevance of
art and culture in the school curriculum further, I’d like to state that visual
art forms the basis of any educational discipline as it runs through all the
subjects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Art helps to train the eyes to
observe, the hands to mold objects and give illustration to ideas. It helps the
mind to imagine and project ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are inter dependencies and inter relationships among subjects taught in schools
and to neglect or eliminate art and culture is to create an imbalance in knowledge
that is imparted at schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Visual art studies lead to graduate and post
graduate degrees in our educational system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This opens up a vast array of professions from which one can choose a
career from either in government or private setups. Two of my colleagues in the
now defunct College of Arts and Technology, which later became Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, are examples of people who went into art education and rose to the
top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professors Adamu Baike and Solomon
Wangboje became the Vice Chancellor and Deputy Vice Chancellor respectively, of
the University of Benin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Another college colleague, Demas Nwoko who specialized
in Painting while at the college and became one of the very few architects who
have created buildings that can truly be termed African.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great number of trained artists became
professionals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are self - employed
and produced art works in their studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">At this point I’d like to talk about the
relevance of the visual arts in society.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art history and civilization</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Art is a measure of civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first thing that puts Nigeria on the map
of the world is her art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nok terra
cottas, Igbo Ukwu figurines, Benin and Ife bronzes and other antique works
produced in the past have classed us as part of world civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The works of our modern pioneer artists like
Aina Onabolu, Ben Enwonwu, Felix Idubor, Lamidi Fakeye, Ladi Kwali, and others
are iconic and constitute very important legacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The post independence period of Nigeria produced
a group of artists who were members of the Zaria Society to which I
belong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their philosophy of synthesis
(recourse to the roots and fertilization from abroad) created a revolution
which is reputed to have forged a direction for contemporary and modern Nigerian
art. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are Yusuf Grillo, Simon Okeke,
Uche Okeke, Demas Nwoko, Emmanuel Odita, Josephine Omigie, Nwagbara and Felix
Ekeada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">One must mention that El Anatsui, a younger
generation artist who has gained international reputation, although Ghanaian
born, but matured in Nigeria.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and Environment</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Villages, cities and town squares, buildings
and parks are beautified with art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Historical
monuments like soldier Idumota (now in Abuja), sculptural portraits of Dr
Nnmadi Azikiwe in Onisha, Herbert Macaulay in Yaba and, Obafemi Awolowo in
Ikeja, the prancing horses at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos make visits to
these places memorable and interesting. Sculpture gardens both at Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria, and at the Auchi Polytechnic are examples of parks that have
been beautified with art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These and vast
indoor decorations of murals, stained glass and mosaic in many of our buildings,
including places of worship are proofs of the relevance of visual art in the
society.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and Diplomacy</u></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Because of the art shows they hold abroad and
the good image of the country that the artists’ works project, our artists are
regarded as “ambassadors.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Timothy
Fasuyi while holding the post of Nigerian Federal Art Adviser was on the basis
of art, at the United Nations Assembly in New York to present our cultural
policy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I have had numerous art exhibitions abroad
and my art works have been used to fulfill diplomatic roles by the federal
government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1996 my art piece was
given as a present by Dr. Walter Ofonagoro, the then minister of information to
Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president. It earned me a travel grant to visit
Iraq and experience their art and culture and only two years ago, my art work
“Oracle” was acquired for our President Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan as a present
to President Barack Obama of the United States of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many of my friends tell me they see my
paintings adorning the walls of Aso Rock when the President is holding the
cabinet meeting with his ministers. They see them when watching the television.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and Politics</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Artists use their works to draw attention to
what goes on around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An example is
a body of work called “Totems of the Delta” which I created to draw attention
to the environmental impact of oil exploration and extraction in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">During the Nigerian pre-independence
political era, a Nigerian artist, Akinola Lasekan drew powerful cartoons in the
pages of the West African Pilot, which became weapons in the political struggle
championed by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and others for the emancipation of Nigeria
from colonial rule. In the ongoing electoral campaigns, artists use their
cartoons in funny ways to disseminate information on the pages of newspapers.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and the Nigerian Economy</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Art and craft is a renewable source of wealth
for any nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our country Nigeria,
it employs a great number of people and alleviates poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Traditional crafts men and women and those
trained in schools and workshops create items which we use for dressing,
furniture and ornaments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These have huge
local and foreign patronage which create immense wealth for the country.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and Tourism</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Our art and craft attract a large number of
people, local and foreign to our markets, boutiques, art galleries and museums,
carnivals and traditional festivals. Art supports tourism which is estimated to
employ eighty per cent of labour force when we consider services that have to
be provided by the hospitality and transport industries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To reap its maximum benefits as alternative
source of income to oil, we need more investments in infrastructure and
security for the safety of lives and property.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Secondary Art Market, Art Auctions and
Super Prices</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Relatively new developments on the Nigerian
art scene include the appearance of secondary market in which one can resell
art works and the institution of auction houses which sell art to the highest
bidders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both artists and art collectors
have experienced surprises as pieces fetch high or super prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Auctions become a gauge for measuring the
importance of an artist or an artistic trend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They help discover new artists particularly the younger ones. Older art
works and works of more established artists tend to fetch more money in those
markets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It is important also to mention that
collectors would rather buy works from artists who are faithful and enduring in
their commitment to the practice of art, and in the process gain reputations
which invariably add to the value of their pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In case you have an art work to sell you can
consult any of the following auction houses which organize consistently about
two times in a year. They are The Art House Contemporary Limited and the Terra
Kulture Ltd. Terra Kulture is in partnership with Mydrim Gallery, Nike Gallery
and recently, the Signature gallery.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">8. <u>Art
and Investment</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Art works now enjoy investment value in
Nigeria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like gold, landed property,
stocks and shares, one can invest in art and expect good returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, art works are now being accepted by the
banks as collaterals for loans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
development calls for a new line of study which can be called “art valuation”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><u>Art and Religion</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This talk on the relevance of visual art in
the society will not be complete if I do not mention the role which art plays in
religion in the present Nigerian society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, I’d like to say that the use of art for religion is growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The murals and sculptures including my works
in St. Pauls Catholic Church, Ebute Metta, Lagos, until recently before they
were removed from the walls are an eloquent example of the use of art in
religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stained glass works by Yusuf
Grillo and David Dale are visible in many of our churches in Lagos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of the churches are replete with
carvings and paintings which help convey the essence of Christianity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there is a kind of negative attitude
which is working against the use images in holy places particularly when local
figures, motifs and symbols are employed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The issues become serious as the trend extends to decorations and art
works in our city squares and public places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A beautiful and imposing Ikenga sculpture was pulled down in one of the
south eastern states of Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Similarly, actions have been taken against sculptural
monuments at the Warri round about in Delta state and on the campus of
University of Ibadan, Oyo state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We know that visual art which is part of
culture is not static but dynamic, and accept that no one should impose any
idea through art on any community or society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, the world is now a global village, and through technological
advancements, a lot of people can easily be assimilated into other cultures, thereby
losing the sense of who they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Artists
should be commended for being an important agent in the transfer of our timeless
values from one generation to another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I thank Lagoon School for the honour and
privilege to talk about a subject which has given me fulfillment and
recognition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether one is in or
outside the school, art and culture are very important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope this presentation will always generate
healthy discussions in and around the classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Thank you boys and girls, ladies and
gentlemen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">REVIEW
OF A BOOK TITLED </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">"ONOBRAKPEYA"
<br />
</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WRITTEN BY RICHARD A.
SINGLETARY <br />
</span></b><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">(Reviewed by Kunle Filani)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">PREAMBLE </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">On a sunny day in
Lagos</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a group of street urchins who were <br />
playing soccer suddenly looked at the direction of a human <br />
figure walking towards them from a narrow alley</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">One
of them <br />
intoned with a voice laden with obvious awesomeness </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Oyinbo
<br />
n</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i" </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">meaning </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">he is a white man</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">.
Really</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">the man walking with <br />
a swagger was very light in comp</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">l</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">exion</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and
his </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">whiteness</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" <br />
</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">was accentuated by the brightness of the sun which created a <br />
faceting effect on his oily face</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
facade of imaging <br />
gradually <u>dimini</u>shed with each step he took</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and
by the time he <br />
got to a closer range of view, it became ob</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">v</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">ious</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">who
he was- <br />
fair complexioned</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">but a black man</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">With a flatulent remark</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, <br />
</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">the boy who earlier observed that the man was </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Oyinbo</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"
</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">now <br />
said </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Uh Eeyan ni</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i.e </span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Oh</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">he
is a person</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">". </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">They immediately <br />
resumed their game with a tint of disappointment that matched <br />
the windy pall of dust that beclouded the sky</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">If this story is
interrogated</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">one will observe that the children obviously had more <br />
respect for the white man they had imagined than the black man that eventually <br />
emerged</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">To them</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">the white man is an extra-ordinary person because they must <br />
have been told and perhaps experienced the 'magic</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">' </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">of
the systematic <br />
de</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">v</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">elopment of Western ci</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">v</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">ilization</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">; </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a
civilization prem</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">sed on progressive build- <br />
up of ancient innovat</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i</span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">ons up to modem inventiveness</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #424341; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a
triumph attained because <br />
of the feat of documentation which made it possible to develop fully what their
<br />
progenitors initiated</span><span style="color: #5d605d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is
this culture of documentation that we unfortunately lack in Africa</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
the <br />
lack-lustre growth rate of our development is certainly not because there is
paucity <br />
of knowledge and geniuses, but essentially because we are limited in knowing
the <br />
history of our heroes and stunted in researching their landmarks. This is what
Dr. <br />
Richard Singletary is trying to correct by celebrating the artistic feats of a reputable
son</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">of Africa in the book titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ONOBRAKPEYA.</b> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">FEATURES </span></b><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
Titled</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">:<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span> </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ONOBRAKPEYA
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Author</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr.
Richard Singletary </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Publisher: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The Ford Foundation and the
Institute of Intemational </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Education <br />
Year of Publication</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2002 AD </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cover:
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hardback (with
folded paper cover) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Number of Chapters</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Five chapters (apart from Preface and
Conclusion) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">P</span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ages of Texts</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">100 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pages
of Figures</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">69 (mostly
colour photographs) </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">INTRODUCTION </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Preface</b> is a justification of the need
to research on Contemporary African <br />
Art</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">since it reflects the dynamics of change and continuity of
ancient traditions</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. <br />
</span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The impact of change as reflected in form</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">context,
content</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and function is best <br />
captured in the works of a renowned Nigerian artist</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bruce
Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">who <br />
over the last four decades has proved his creative ingenuity and won several
local <br />
and international awards. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The comprehensive
literature review</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">though inexhaustive</span><span style="color: #60625f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">shows
that Onobrakpeya and </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">his art of painting,
and essentially printmaking have appeared in</span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> many publications such</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">as scholarly
books, journals</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">catalogues</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Masters/PhD dissertations</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">and several</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">newspaper reviews</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The methodology is
mainly art historical with flashes of anthropological <br />
approaches since his works are mainly inspired by the cultural ambience. The <br />
structure is no doubt reflective of the dissertation format which was the basis
for <br />
the research ab-initio. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">CHAPTER ONE</span></b><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> (Bruce Onobrakpeya): The Evolution of a
Contemporary </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">African Artist) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">This chapter focuses
on Onobrakpeya's formative years</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">his
schooling</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">with <br />
special attention on his Zaria days between 1957 and 1961, where he studied
Fine <br />
Arts in the Nigerian College of Arts</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Science
and Technology</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Zaria</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">His <br />
involvement in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zaria Art Society</b>
which shaped his perspective as a professional artist is also noted</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">It
was at the dawn of N</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i</span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">gerian Independence in 1960 that Bruce Onobrakpeya began to experiment with forms in relation to Nigerian Folklores</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">myths</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and legends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #dfc5a0; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">A well referenced
chapter, Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">'</span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">s professional practice is broadly <br />
identified as The Post - Zaria Period</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and
is classified into periods namely:- From <br />
Painter to Printmaker (1962 </span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">- </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">1966)</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Experimental
Period (1967 </span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">- </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">1979)</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and The <br />
Consolidation Period (1980 to the present)</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">His
professional accomplishments are <br />
detailed with the many exhibitions</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">commissions,
workshops</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">celebrations</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, <br />
</span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">awards</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and grants that cut across all continents of the world</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3d3f3e; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
chapter is <br />
properly illustrated with good photographs of his early works</span><span style="color: #606261; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CHAPTER TWO: </span></b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">(Ethnic Themes: Celebrating Nigeria's Cultural Diversity) <br />
This is the most analytical chapter where a good number of prints which involve
<br />
photographs, plastocasts, copper metal foil relief, bronzed lino relief and
lino <br />
engravings are discussed from art historical and anthropological perspectives</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">. </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The <br />
forms and contents of the works are analysed to fit into the ethnic themes that
<br />
project the diversity of Nigerian culture. Most prominent among the ethnic and <br />
sub-ethnic groups that inspired Onobrakpeya's creativity are Urhobo (his own <br />
homeland), Bini, Yomba</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Igbo, and Hausa - Fulani cultures. The intellectual <br />
approach employed by the author makes the chapter very descriptive of the
works, <br />
with lucid thematic appreciation</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">. </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">The chapter is also well illustrated with <br />
luminous pictures of Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">'</span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 107%;">s works. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CHAPTER
THREE </span></b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">(National Themes: Promoting Unity in Diversity) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The author x-rays
briefly</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">the political history of Nigeria as a nation</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and
pointed <br />
out the need for harmonizing the fragile coalition of interests which often
times <br />
lead to ethnic sentiments and nepotism among the various cultural groups. He <br />
focuses on the attempts made by Bruce Onobrakpeya to bring understanding <br />
among her people by exploring nationalistic and peculiar mutual themes</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Motifs
<br />
from different cultural groups that were combined in "natural synthesis"
are <br />
identified and discussed within the context of cultural pluralism. A number of <br />
photographs of prints are used as illustrations. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CHAPTER
FOUR </span></b><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">(Crossing Boundaries: From the Ethnic and the National to <br />
the International) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The influx of western
civ</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i</span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">lization and the resultant acculturation have all <br />
coalesced to dislocate the old order in Nigeria</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">thereby
creating "hybrid traditions <br />
that cut across national boundaries". The impact of change on Onobrakpeya
and <br />
his works are highlighted graphically in this chapter</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
most reflective theme of <br />
the period is those with Christian subject matter</span><span style="color: #5e6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #393a3a; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Detailed
reactions of people with </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">divergent views are
copiously quoted in order to show how Nigerians and Christians</span><br />
<span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> viewed the admixture of African forms with naturalistic Western
forms that constituted the style adopted by Onobrakpeya in executing the religious themes</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">This adaptation of local forms and motifs in rendering
international themes gave Onobrakpeya's works a deserved universal appeal in spite of their Urhobo titles</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Pictures of commissioned prints and paintings especially by the <br />
Church are used to illustrate the chapter. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">CHAPTER FIVE</span></b><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> (Modernistic Impulses: Re-enactment and
Celebration) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">This chapter opens
with the explanations of art historical terms such as </span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Modem
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art</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and its derivatives, </span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Contemporary
African art</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and "Nigerian art</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">.
The terms <br />
are situated within the context of history</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">thereby
highlighting how they affect the <br />
development of art in contemporary Africa. Modem Art in Nigeria is traced to
the <br />
pioneering efforts of Aina Onabolu who excelled in "academic painting</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">.
The <br />
Zarianist efforts of the late 1950s which was later tagged an exploration in <br />
</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">natural synthesis</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">is
identified as the most significant impetus to the spread of art <br />
in contemporary Nigeria</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Onobrakpeya is said to have synthesized modernistic <br />
aesthetics with his own Nigerian heritage using improvised techniques. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Some of his works are
further analyzed by exploring the use of lines</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">colours,
<br />
textures and other elements of design as integral part of his abstract
compositions. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">CONCLUSION</span></b><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;"> (Critical Perspective of the Artist) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">'</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">s
cultural ideology and its manifestation on the works he produced <br />
in almost five decades are critically reviewed</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
author brought out the <br />
complex connotations of social and cultural aspects of realities as chronicled
by <br />
Onobrakpeya whose </span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">i</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">deas and philosophies are calculated to help upgrade and <br />
uplift the life of the people</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">'</span><span style="color: #3b3e3d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">s
humane disposition is also mentioned. <br />
He is described as a generous artist who is willing to share his scholarship</span><span style="color: #5d6060; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">innovations and
industry with students and colleagues. The book is richly and <br />
copiously referenced with bibliographical data covering twelve pages</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The
book <br />
is closed with an enviable curriculum vitae of the famous Bruce Onobrakpeya;
the <br />
printmaker per excellence, a painter of repute</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a
sublime poet</span><span style="color: #969890; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a teacher</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">an erudite <br />
scholar</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">a recipient of many awards and honours, and above all a humanist
whose <br />
munificence resounds all over the continents</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TECHNICALITIES:
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<span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">A number of errata
could be identified in the book</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">These include typographical <br />
errors</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">repeated lines, incomplete figures (as listed), non-numbering of
figures, and <br />
other misprints</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">It is hoped that these will be corrected in subsequent edition</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">One would also have
expected an index of names and topics that are referred to in <br />
the book</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Perhaps a glossary of artistic terminologies</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">especially
the innovative <br />
experiments of Bruce Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">'</span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">s
materials and techniques such as araldite - <br />
epoxy</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">plastograph</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">plastocast</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">lvorex</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">bronzed
- lino etc. This would have <br />
facilitated easy understanding of the new words</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The re</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">v</span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">ised
edition may also consider a re-alignment of the preface with other <br />
parts in order to lift the sequence of the book outside its dissertation
structure</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">FINAL NOTE </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">The author</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Dr</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Richard
A</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Singletary</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">is no doubt a scholar with penetrating <br />
gazes</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">His simple and lucid styles complement the visual images
depicted by the <br />
photographs</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">He is a </span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">v</span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">ersatile artist whose musical training both as practitioner <br />
and theorist manifests in his calculated balancing of structures. Dr</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Singletary</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">'</span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">s <br />
multi-disciplinary approach to the study equally aided the depth of the
research</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, <br />
</span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">and as an experienced individual</span><span style="color: #565858; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #343736; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">he
was able to avoid histrionics in spite of his </span></div>
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<span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">closeness to the
artist during the course of the research</span><span style="color: #5b605f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">His
delibrate use of <br />
"Onobrakpeya</span><span style="color: #5b605f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">" </span><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">as the title of the book is symbolic and significant;
reconciling a <br />
Contemporary African artist with the genius of great European modernist artists
<br />
such as Picasso, Brancusi and Moore</span><span style="color: #5b605f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">In a period where the
'traditional art' of Africa is considered superior to the <br />
contemporary art, where the modernist tendencies in Africa is regarded as mere <br />
by- product of Western decadence, it becomes a singular success for Singletary
to <br />
dismiss such artistic subterfuge by coming out with a book that celebrates the <br />
creative genius and technical sagacity of a reputable contemporary artist in
person <br />
of Bruce Onobrakpeya. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">It is therefore with
artistic pleasure and scholarly contentment that I recommended <br />
this book to all culture enthusiasts, all scholars of culture, art historians
and critics, <br />
artists and art students all over the world to read and keep at least a copy of
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</span><b><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ONOBRAKPEYA. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kunle
Filani </span></b><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">(MFA, </span><b><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">PhD) <br />
</span></b><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Artist, Critic </span><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">& </span><span style="color: #383a39; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">Historian <br />
August, 2003</span><span style="color: #5b605f; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">. </span></div>
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