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Ademola
Olugebefola
Ademola's world is vast
and varied. His lifelong interest in the performing arts music and
dance is translated through a series of large ink and pastel
drawings, which capture with a few calligraphic gestural lines the
ethereal and fleeting quality of gracious movement. Music is
rendered with the same dexterity and sensitivity. There his use of
medium broadens (watercolors and mixed media) conveying his love of
music and communicating the energy emanating from this sensorial art
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"Emerging
Spirit" mixed media and collage on paper, 1970-71. 24 x 18 inches.
In Emerging Spirit, Olugebefola
juxtaposes the brilliant colorations of blue, red, black, and
white, the basic Yoruba ceremonial colors, to create an evocative work
depicting spiritual birth. The artist's experience in Weusi Ya Sanna
provides him with a sound frame of reference for this work and the
ritual symbolism of these colors adds another level of meaning to the
image. The colors, flame like in their formation, acquire a deeper
resonance in their close proximity. A kind of visual vibrancy is set up
which emanates from the spiritual form upwards, beyond the edges of the
paper.
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"Sun Ra" 1994, mixed media on board
30"x40"
Published
by Chronicle Books, 1997 on the occasion of an exhibition organized by
the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition service as part of
America's Jazz Heritage. A partnership of the Lila Wallach Reader's
Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution
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"Music
for Jitana" Hand
Colored Woodcut Limited Edition 16"
X 14"
Commissioned by Chase Manhattan Bank
1994 for Commemorative Harlem Week Poster
Ademola's
website http://art-alive.com/ademola |
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