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African Princess/Fadesewa Adufe (2019) Painting by Ifeoluwa Olojede
Seller Ifeoluwa Olojede
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Seller Ifeoluwa Olojede
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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Painting,
Acrylic
on Canvas
- Dimensions Height 52in, Width 26in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract
This painting titled FADESEWA ADUFE simply translate to mean "a beautiful crowned lady with many suitors".
In the African context, a princess always have many suitors whom the King known as the Oba would aak all the suitors to come to the palace for a ceremony.
During this ceremony, each suitors will have a match-man to have wrestling with until all the suitors fight one another and their emerge a winner.
The winner would be the one to marry the Princess; this is a way to insure the Princess to a suitable man that would take good care of her and fight to protect her from any attack.
Symbolically, the butterfly in this painting represents the suitors who love the beautiful princess.
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IfeOluwapo Olojede is a full-time studio artist who explore art in diverse ways.
His works are inspired by his environment and also surrounded by the theme of music, folklores, history, literature and many more of expressionism in art.
Most of his works on large canvases are done with mixed media which can feature charcoal, oil pastel, cut-out fabrics, acrylic and oil colour on a canvas as a whole.
He is an alumni of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife Nigeria where he obtained his professional Masters in Painting in 2018. Since then, he has started practicing as a full time studio artists.
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Nationality:
NIGERIA
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Nigerian Artists
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