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The Westside girl (2022) Painting by Aluu Prosper

Oil on Canvas, 24x21.5 in
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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 24in, Width 21.5in
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  • Categories Paintings under $1,000 Surrealism Portrait
Will Smith said "It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa". If you have observed, a lot of my paintings are indirect representations of the actual subject even when I'm describing about myself and I ought to use self-portraits(although sometimes they are used in a different series of works).Well,[...]
Will Smith said "It’s really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa". If you have observed, a lot of my paintings are indirect representations of the actual subject even when I'm describing about myself and I ought to use self-portraits(although sometimes they are used in a different series of works).Well, same with this. She's from the West side of Africa(Nigeria) and also West of Nigeria as well(Lagos). During one of my business visits to Lagos, I came across a lady who I observed severally wearing a necklace attached to a pendant designed in the form of an African map. Actually from what I thought, it felt like part of her usual daily dress code.
Before I proceed, you may wonder why her head size is small and disproportionate to her body right? well,if you're familiar with my thoughts on relative black intellectual capacity as seen by some people in some other races then you will be aware.
In continuation before the diversion, I found it hard to confront her and ask why she wore it and at the same time I didn't want to assume it was just for fashion. although she loved new styles and looking classy with nice earrings and other necklaces, but there was this necklace that seemed constant; the one with a pendant designed with an African map.
Well, I found a way to ask her which I wouldn't want to bore you with but the main reason for this painting was what her reason for that which I would actually get straight to point with. She said "Africa is a blessed land, many don't see it that way because of some shortfalls but we are actually in a blessed land. And I wear this everyday because to me it signifies that blessing bestowed upon this great land and drawing more blessings to me".
You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can’t hate Africa and not hate yourself — Malcolm X.

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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[...]

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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