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Arts and Design Studies, 2011
A Project Report Submitted to the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University ... more A Project Report Submitted to the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Partial Fulfillment of requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Art,2011
Visual Art Education in Ghana and the world over has been structured to give a holistic training ... more Visual Art Education in Ghana and the world over has been structured to give a holistic training to the student with emphasis on hands on practical skills acquisition. It focuses on creativity and innovativeness towards the production of high quality artefacts to fulfill societal needs. It is line with this mandate that the Visual Art curriculum has been crafted to refine and train students in the various art disciplines such as Textiles, Sculpture, Ceramics, Leather Work, Jewellery, Basketry and Graphic Design, just to mention a few. However, certain developments in recent times militate against the realization of this mandate. The craze for Graphic Design at the expense of other art subjects has almost reached its peak. 8 out of every 10 Visual Art students in the Tertiary and Senior High Schools prefer to offer Graphic Design. This unfortunate development has left most of the other art related subjects with few students. In most of the Senior High Schools in Ghana, the other art ...
In this study, the researcher applied a seemingly illogical impossibility of juxtaposing his own ... more In this study, the researcher applied a seemingly illogical impossibility of juxtaposing his own likeness on recognizable historical characters to create a sense of enigma and to awaken the sensibilities of other researchers in the realm of psychology so far as irrationality of the modern psyche and existence are concerned .He starts by borrowing portraits of recognizable personalities from European artistic sources as the basis for his argument. However, reference is made also to sculpture with regard to African societies like Egypt, Nok, Ife and Benin portraiture. The images selected by the artist for this painterly experiments have been categorized under three phases. They include; a) Phase one - transposing the artist‘s features onto an original historical character. b) Phase two - imposing the artist’s own innate style or technique onto the original image. c) Phase three –imitating the style of the original painting or image which inspired the artist‘s prototy...
Arts and Design Studies, 2011
A Project Report Submitted to the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University ... more A Project Report Submitted to the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in Partial Fulfillment of requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Art,2011
Visual Art Education in Ghana and the world over has been structured to give a holistic training ... more Visual Art Education in Ghana and the world over has been structured to give a holistic training to the student with emphasis on hands on practical skills acquisition. It focuses on creativity and innovativeness towards the production of high quality artefacts to fulfill societal needs. It is line with this mandate that the Visual Art curriculum has been crafted to refine and train students in the various art disciplines such as Textiles, Sculpture, Ceramics, Leather Work, Jewellery, Basketry and Graphic Design, just to mention a few. However, certain developments in recent times militate against the realization of this mandate. The craze for Graphic Design at the expense of other art subjects has almost reached its peak. 8 out of every 10 Visual Art students in the Tertiary and Senior High Schools prefer to offer Graphic Design. This unfortunate development has left most of the other art related subjects with few students. In most of the Senior High Schools in Ghana, the other art ...
In this study, the researcher applied a seemingly illogical impossibility of juxtaposing his own ... more In this study, the researcher applied a seemingly illogical impossibility of juxtaposing his own likeness on recognizable historical characters to create a sense of enigma and to awaken the sensibilities of other researchers in the realm of psychology so far as irrationality of the modern psyche and existence are concerned .He starts by borrowing portraits of recognizable personalities from European artistic sources as the basis for his argument. However, reference is made also to sculpture with regard to African societies like Egypt, Nok, Ife and Benin portraiture. The images selected by the artist for this painterly experiments have been categorized under three phases. They include; a) Phase one - transposing the artist‘s features onto an original historical character. b) Phase two - imposing the artist’s own innate style or technique onto the original image. c) Phase three –imitating the style of the original painting or image which inspired the artist‘s prototy...