ART X Lagosさんのイラストまとめ

Through surreal works depicting futuristic African landscapes with moons, star-spangled galaxies, or faded dusky skies, artist David Alabo (@alabodavid) explores Black identity, isolation, and the future.

Striking and notable, the masked figures in Dennis Osadebe’s (@dennisosadebe_) bold and colourful works interest any who come across them.

As the popularity of NFTs grows, which digital art formats are you excited to see rise in the next few years?

An NFT is a digital asset that is bought and sold online through cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, particularly Ethereum. They allow their buyers' exclusive ownership rights as one NFT can have only one owner at a time.

Portraitist Amy Sherald (#AmySherald) is best known for her stylised, figurative paintings that feature vibrantly dressed individuals in grayscale skin tones placed against highly-saturated backgrounds, which invoke a pleasant contrast between the subject and their surroundings.

Mixed media artist & illustrator Ekua Holmes (@imaroxburygirl) was inspired to create art after observing a notable absence of positive Black images while growing up in Boston, Massachusetts. To her, art created a pathway to fill a void which inspires her & the people around her.

Olu Ajayi is one of the most versatile artists of his generation, revisiting his ideas and expanding the realm of visual arts in multiple directions.

DUKUMA (“No Surrender” in Kalabari) was created live over the weekend alongside works by Lagos-based visual artists who gathered at the Lekki-VI #EndSARS  protest site.
Artworks:
1 - ‘DUKUMA (no surrender in Kalabari)’, 2020, by Donna Duke
2 - ‘Ezu River’, 2020, by Chigozie Obi

👀At the @BrooklynMuseum, Kehinde Wiley (@kehindewileyart)'s 'Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005)', comes face to face with the nineteenth-century painting on which it is based: Jacques-Louis David’s 'Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1800–1)'.

https://t.co/k6iQhcKHMP

#ARTXLoves: Drawings by Muyiwa Akinwolere (@akinwolerem).

Muyiwa’s series of comical caricatures parody Nigerian politics, and were featured in the Interactive Projects at #ARTXLagos2018, curated by A Whitespace Creative Agency (@WhitespaceLagos).