Abayomi Barber. Chinezim Moghalu Born 1928 in Ile Ife, Abayomi Adebayo Barber is a modern Nigerian artist and mentor of the Abayomi Barber School of Thought, an informal school of art founded in Lagos, in 1973. Barber happens to be one of Nigeria's most influential modern artists. The master artist is adept in naturalist painting, yet renown about realist, life-like, remarkably outstanding, detailed, and proportional sculpture. Abayomi is notorious for meticulous execution of sculpture. He does so with an underlying motive, zest and quest to achieve a perfectly rudimentarily proportional sculpture. His artistic practice is summed in keen attention to detail. Report has it that Barber could abandon a sculptural piece that is being undertaking by him, if such is not tilting to the artist's artistic sensibility of usually impeccable visualization. He could spend a great deal of time on a piece, in a bid to achieve the desire. Abayomi Barber's artistic and formal education was ...
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