What happens to the unjust (2022) Painting by Aluu Prosper

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Acrylic / Collages on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 22in, Width 19.5in
  • Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
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  • Categories Paintings under $1,000 Figurative
This outstanding collage acrylic painting; "What happens to the unjust" is a reflection of the incident on 1st November, 2022. At the top of the painting is a cutout from a newspaper which reads "The just shall live by faith". Now the question is; What happens to the unjust? On the first day of November in 2022, six people were kidnapped from the University [...]
This outstanding collage acrylic painting; "What happens to the unjust" is a reflection of the incident on 1st November, 2022. At the top of the painting is a cutout from a newspaper which reads "The just shall live by faith". Now the question is; What happens to the unjust?. On the first day of November in 2022, six people were kidnapped from the University of Abuja of which after three days they were rescued.
And on 14th of December, the VC said the University has been safer since the incident which was stated on the newspaper collage cutout on the painting.
The main emphasis in this painting lies on the mental effect of this incident on people living and schooling there and also these negative actions carried out by bandits.
While I use recently released newspapers to create collages in my works, they also serve as a means to preserve the stories of the present for future relevance. These stories will eventually become part of history; African history, Nigerian history.

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Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of painting the iconic afro hairstyle. [...]

Aluu Prosper is a contemporary Nigerian painter. His usually stylized figures show the use of the artistic devices of elongation and exaggeration, as well as his unique style of painting the iconic afro hairstyle. These are his ways of celebrating and negotiating African identity. In traditional African art visual codes, the exaggeration of the head in comparison to other parts of the body is a well-known visual strategy to establish the head as the seat of wisdom and intellectual prowess according to the beliefs in parts of Africa. Prosper plays with the size, forms and presentation of the head of the figures in his paintings as a visual pun to challenge what he considers a one-sided narrative about the size of the head in traditional African art. His style of painting rich afro hairstyle and golden crowns on the heads of his figures are meant to ennoble and dignify the subjects in his work.

Prosper's work does not aim to rehearse the negative stereotypes in African people's relationship with other races; instead, he strives to look beyond negative experiences by painting luscious images of the African people resplendent in beautiful apparel and striking pieces of diadem. By using Nigerian newspapers in his works, he tells stories of the past by preserving stories of the present. While he focuses on black identity, with this he believes that in order to preserve culture, he must continue to create it. Aluu Prosper exhibited his works in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa.



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