Happy sisters (2022) Painting by Aluu Prosper

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions Height 61in, Width 98.5in
  • Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Paintings under $5,000 Surrealism Everyday Life
The term sisters as used in this painting refers less to kindred and consanguinity than it does to bloodlines, racial identity and Afrocentrism. During the time I spend on planet Earth, I do a lot of work on human relationships by sometimes engaging with strangers and understanding their belief and way of life. I have seen siblings (brothers/sisters) [...]
The term sisters as used in this painting refers less to kindred and consanguinity than it does to bloodlines, racial identity and Afrocentrism.
During the time I spend on planet Earth, I do a lot of work on human relationships by sometimes engaging with strangers and understanding their belief and way of life.
I have seen siblings (brothers/sisters) intervene in a fight that they know nothing about just to protect their love ones, but at the same time may hurt their other brother/sister that's not a kindred but the same race.
But before I go further, the use of emojis in my paintings is a contemporary means which I developed to explain the recent kind of human conversations where people symbolize themselves online as emoji's and use it as a form of expression.
In the present world, the are uses of emoji's in conversations, nowadays you find people using just emoji's to communicate and express feelings. There is almost an emoji for every kind of expression.
It's a surrealistic and mannerist style of art that describes human relationships and everyday interactions. In this painting I use the emoji not just to express but to distinguish one set from another just like used in mathematics; subsets in a universal set. It is like a venn diagram showing 4 sisters racially, two of the same kindred and the other two of another kindred.
The painting centers on UNITY amongst all. the need to be one, the need to love and stay happy, despite race, bloodline, kindred or whatsoever we think distinguishes us. Martin Luther King Jr said ; " We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” 

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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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