Enter Aina Onabolu Complex, of Painting in Oil on Canvas by Olusola David, Ayibiowu
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Art Review
Art Review By Creative Arts Solution Foundation
Author: Olusola David, Ayibiowu
Edition:1 Year: Dec 6 2017
Published: Online by Creative
Arts Solution Foundation
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Creative Arts
Solution Foundation
in collaboration with
International Gallery Creative Arts
Since the begriming of art in Nigeria, Aina Onabolu (born in Ijebu-Ode in 1882-1963) has been refer to as the father of
modern Nigerian art. He was the first Nigerian to have formal art training,
enrolling in St. John's Wood Art School, London, in 1920. But his art career
had begun two decades earlier when, self-taught, he took up portrait painting
and landscape painting. A pioneer in promoting art education in Nigerian
schools, Onabolu felt duty-bound to demonstrate that Africans could paint as
well as Europeans.
Olusola David, Ayibiowu may not have any inclination of the growth of modern arts through Aina Onabolu and development of contemporary art education in Nigeria with a view to determining the problems or challenges on the ground and suggest workable solutions. Since no study of any aspect of the history of modern arts and contemporary Nigeria will be complete without some knowledge of the traditional Nigerian in the past and by relating it to our world today.
This
painting depicted an Exhibition Hall of the Aina Onabolu Complex (Building) an
old building structure but now the building has been renovated to a new
structured facade and the environment is now completely changed to a better
structure...
The technique used in this painting is a mixture of brush strokes with impasto (Palette knife effect) with a dramatic impression of brush strokes.
There
is another bigger one or size of this kind of painting of Aina Onabolu
building that he painted in Oil on canvas after this particular painting and it
was donated to Aina Onabolu Complex at National Gallery of Modern Art, National
Theater, Iganmu, Lagos.But as history may have it that the painting has been
relocated to Abuja at National Gallery of Art, Though the painting in oil on canvas was done by Ayibiowu Olusola
when he was one of the resident artists program in the year 2000 at National
Gallery of Arts, Lagos.
However, there is need for us to note that "history
is to a people what memory is to the individual. "A people with no
knowledge of their past will suffer from lack of knowledge, because knowledge
is power. The future of arts without guide posts from precedence to share their
course" adding that "only a thorough awareness of arts heritage
allows freedom of expressions in arts and public decisions as they make their
private ones". It then follows that for possible reforms in education,
"reflections on the previous events and policies will assist considerably
in planning any future course of action”
Exhibition
Ayibiowu
held is First Solo Exhibition Theme: Vision Date: Nov 30-Dec 6, 2007 at Aina Onabolu
Building, National Theater, Iganmu, Lagos of the National Gallery of Art Lagos
during the period of when, Joe Musa was the Director General of, National
Gallery of Art Nigeria.
A
few weeks later after this solo exhibition by Ayibiowu met a notable Art
Collector, Mr. Olagbaju was a Trustee of the Ben Enwonwu Foundation, the
Chairman of the Sammy
Oluseun Olagbaju Charitable Foundation, the Chairman of Visual Arts
Society of Nigeria, who bought one of the Ayibiowu's painting Title: Pray
Without Ceasing, Medium: Oil on Canvas at Aina Onabolu Building National
Theater Iganmu in 2007.
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